"Americans Have Had It with Obama and Congress" --Atlantic Wire

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9. Seems to me this is a self-inflicted crisis.

The GOP is horrible and their leaders have lost the reins and control nothing. They follow.

Congressional Democrats are tone deaf when they speak to the general public and behave as if they were referring a football game. It is people's life they are playing with. May be looking as if they cared (BTW, where is the Voting Rights Act? Where are bills that will really impact people's life? Good to see that they are thinking of rising minimum wage -- not that it is going to happen -- but we need a lot more bills like that).

The White House seems engulfed in scandals of all sorts, most of them self-inflicted (Who is the idiot who thought saying "you can keep your healthcare" and writing it on the white house website was a good idea. Anybody who had a minimum interest in the issue knew it would not be the case. ). Not to think about the website, and the veteran website, and the spying crisis, ... The lack of public answer on these issues gives the impression to people who are just ambivalent about Obama that he is not trustworthy.

Of course, I agree with the WH and Congressional Democrats, but the truth is that government is not about immobility. And right now, it is immobility. Clearly a number of people think it is more the GOP fault, but it hurts Obama as well, particularly as it gives the impression nobody wants to talk to nobody.