digby wrote Winning Isn't Everything, It's The Only Thing about Obama's predicament. "Greg Sargent has been making the argument for a while that GOP obstructionism is helping them at the polls because people actually blame the majority Democrats for failing rather than blame the Republicans for succeeding. I think he's right about that and there are two reasons."
"The party in power is expected to do what's necessary to pass its agenda. If it can't, it is held responsible for the failure, not those who stopped them from doing it. "
"The failure of those things to materialize as a measure of his failure to deliver on his promise. This president is more hampered than most in making the (legitimate) argument that the Party of No is to blame for the nation's troubles."
I suppose those things are true, but it doesn't seem like the administration is even trying. He should be explaining his policies clearly instead of leaving it up to Congress to bicker about (for a year with health care) and he should explaining how the obstructionism is working. It's not like the GOP positions even make logical sense, it should be a simple slam dunk. Instead the GOP controls all the messaging and the Dems start to add their policies into the bills making everything destined to fail. It's moronic.
Update: Atrios, Krugman, Benen and DeLong talked about this too: What Rough Beast?.
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