Originally Posted by Relentless

According to Mitch McConnell "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." That is not the way our Democracy is intended to work. Republicans decided to attempt to gridlock every initiative (good or bad) rather than governing responsibly by blocking the initiatives they disagree with and compromising on ones that were good for the nation.

Obama deserves blame for failing to get the blue dogs in line to create true single payer universal healthcare while the Democrats controlled Congress early in his Presidency. That was without a doubt his biggest failure. Getting Republican obstructionists to work with him later on when their primary goal was for his term to end, not for the country to move forward, is much more the failing of the GOP than anyone else.

A laundry list of unconstitutional legislation via signing statements (the way GWB went about governing) is not better. It is far worse.