O’Malley: Obama faces ‘obstructionist’ GOP

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s efforts to create jobs are constantly being blocked by an “obstructionist wing of the Republican Party.”

“What’s becoming clear over time as the president puts forward proposals [is] we have a very obstructionist wing of the Republican Party who’s been very successful at keeping the president from accelerating this jobs recovery as quickly as he would like,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“You cannot ignore the fact that we have in this tea party Republican Congress people who have taken an oath to be an obstructionist,” O'Malley added.

The chairman of the Democratic Governors Association singled out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as one such a Republican.

“I was referring more to Mitch McConnell’s very direct statement that he has one priority ... putting the president out of a job,” O'Malley said.