Washington, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – In his first public statement since Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Barack Obama said he was ecstatic about the incoming Republican-controlled U.S. Congress.

“Finally, I won’t have to deal with cowardly Democrats in Congress who have no personal conviction (disclosure: The Adobo Chronicles replaced a 5-letter word originally used by the President in this quote) to do what’s good for the country,” Obama said.  “They’re more concerned about protecting their elective and re-elective status by hiding underneath Republican coattails and refusing to advance my agenda and vision for the American people.”

Obama said that with a Republican-controlled Congress, he has a much better chance of calling for an up or down vote on many of his initiatives such as immigration reform, marriage equality, net neutrality and social security, among others.  With their majority status, the president thinks that Republicans will gain more confidence that they can defeat his initiatives, and therefore agree to take up the Obama administration’s remaining legislative agenda through 2016.

“I so look forward to exercising my veto powers,” Obama said.  So far, Obama has a record of only 2 vetoes during his term.  “I want to break the record for the most number of presidential vetoes ever,” he added.

That record belongs to Franklin D. Roosevelt with a total of 635 vetoes.