"he could climb naked up a goldplated statue of Ronald Reagan and kiss it, and they still wouldn't vote for him"

Gah!!! What a creepy mental image, Peter! ;-) But I'm afraid you're probably right that the Republicans would oppose virtually anything Obama did.

There's one thing I think the Republicans would support him on. Waging a war on Iran. It's definitely not worth trying it out, though, just to see if I'm right about that...