However, there's something else the President must do at the same time if his strategy is to yield any decent results: he must get out of the Oval Office and pound the pavement for Democratic Congressional candidates. There's no sense in his complaining about the Nasty Boys who have inhabited the Capitol unless he does everything a President can do to get rid of them.
Whoever wins the Republican nomination (and isn't that race a nail biter), the Republican mantra will be the same: Barak Obama's presidency has been a colossal failure, and the country can't take four more years of the status quo. There's lots of reason to argue the first half of that statement. President Obama has a long list of accomplishments to his name, and I'm sure he and his politicos will tout them tirelessly.
However, I'm afraid I must agree with the second half: we can't survive as a nation with four more years of stalemate. Even if President Obama is re-elected—and I certainly hope he is—crippling standoff in Washington threatens to destory us. The nation's credit rating is declining, not because of overblown debt, but because Congressional obstructionists have put our ability to make our payments on time in constant jeopardy. Investment in this country is lackluster, not because we have a greedy, lazy workforce, but because pro-growth policies are nearly impossible to enact. If the Congress doesn't turn Big-Time Blue, we may as well not re-elect the President because he won't be able to get anything done.
As distasteful as I find the current lineup of Republican contenders, I'll be watching very carefully to measure the support Obama gives Congressional and Senatorial candidates during the upcoming race. If he seems to be complaining about the current Congress and not actively working to change it, I may just have to hold my nose.
Four more years of deadlock is not an option.
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