They were never going to work with him. They were always going to fight him and do everything to make him fail. This is why his 'go along to get along' approach was never going to have any success in bringing adults to the negotiating table - there are no adults in the republican party.
When someone only wants to fight you, you have two choices: fight or walk away. Bargaining and trying to make friends doesn't work when the other party has only your demise on their mind. Very little progress has been made because of the President's 'play nice' approach.
The facts are behind my position. Matt Taibbi and Ron Suskind have documented the behind-the-scenes actions and the subsequent impact of Obama's bipartisanship obsession in painful detail. Blaming Congress is a convenient excuse that requires we all believe the President is a powerless slob who can't stand up, articulate, and directly appeal to America with a vision and exposition that rallies the country behind his path. He's done no such thing - barely more 1st term press conferences than dubya. Oh, and make sure you read Taibbi's coverage of how Obama's nice-nice approach motivated the too-big-to-fail big-wigs to greater glory... you might actually have a breakdown.
Weak excuses may be acceptable to you - but they don't cut it with me.
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