implement from the Republican priority list.

And don't tell me they never proposed anything, because they had ideas. The Paul Ryan budget proposal. Closing tax loopholes to raise the revenue Obama wanted. Obama publicly trashed the Ryan proposal with Ryan sitting in the front row, and demanded that the revenue be raised through tax hikes and NOT the Republican loophole proposal. You talk of credulous bases. Obama did that to pander to his. He didn't want to give Republicans credit for raising revenue, he just wanted to be able to brag about punishing rich people.

Obama's idea of bipartisanship has always been "you vote yes on my ideas." You like to harp on the "one-term President" quote. "Elections have consequences" came long before it. The left demanded Obama use his electoral mandate to crush the opposition, step on their throat and don't compromise, and he obeyed their every whim.

George Bush, at least, worked with liberal icons like Ted Kennedy on bipartisanship legislation. Whether that was a good idea or not is neither here nor there, but he did it. Obama never bothered to reach across the aisle and flat-out told the GOP immediately after his inauguration that he never would. "Elections have consequences, and Eric, I won." Real conciliatory. Spirit of compromise right there. How about that in a leader. All he ever did was demand the GOP vote yes on his initiatives and whine about obstructionism when they didn't.

Obama is both a dictator and a feckless wimp. He can't lead his way out of a brown paper bag, so he uses the bully pulpit and the executive order to get his way. He's good at one thing: Speaking pretty out of a teleprompter. Leadership, on the other hand, not even close.
[Post edited by MaizeAndBlueWahoo at 06/30/2016 6:38PM]