Originally Posted by crockett

...the Republican Congress has not done their job the entire time Obama has been in office. They had tried to block everything no matter if it's good or bad.

This is a direct result of Obama knowing nothing will result in trying to work with the Republicans and doing what he decided to do. It's bad that the president did this, but it's even worse that it's simply a waste of an effort to even try to get the Republicans in Congress to work together and come up with something reasonable.

It's not the Presidents office that is at fault here. It's the fact Congress has been useless for the last 4+ years.