President Obama Never Fails To Disappoint

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

131. Holy shit...

You do realize, don't you, that the composition of Congress changes over time, right? We have elections and new people show up and old ones retire or are voted out of office?

Spoiler Alert: Henry T. Rainey is no longer Speaker of the House!

As to Roosevelt's "hostile" Congress, I hardly know where to start. Roosevelt had large Democratic majorities throughout most of his tenure in office, and the opposition to his policies was not even slightly comparable to the visceral response that Obama has faced. Roosevelt faced far more opposition from the Supreme Court than he did from Congress during his first six years in office.

For Roosevelt, it wasn't until the mid-term election of 1938 that Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats had enough votes to effectively thwart any more New Deal policies. And that's precisely what they did -- the New Deal largely came to an end (to be replaced by World War II). So your thesis (Roosevelt did, so why can't Obama?) is basically refuted by the historical facts.