Care to share it?
I'm trying to think about how it possibly could need more exposition? President comes into office with overwhelming majorities in both houses, accomplishes almost nothing in the face of clearly abjectly adversarial opposition, his party is destroyed in the mid term elections and how his weakness might contribute to the tone of that incoming opposition majority is somehow confusing?
Which argument do you want?
The cognitive one? He conditioned the GOP that political success only required their entrenched opposition.
The PR one? He devalued his own brand by allowing health care to consume a legislative agenda where he could easily have passed multiple politically useful programs.
The economic one? He caved on a "compromise" stimulus number for no particular reason. The political will was there for a larger program, the economic case was clear, that half of an effective stimulus in no way approached 50% in useful effect.
The administrative one? His staff is regularly destroyed by both legislative operations on the hill. I can make specific cases for this if it's really necessary, but it's really not a debatable point.
The expectations one? He campaigned, successfully, on a lot of obviously vapid talking points, transparency, change, whatever. Excusable if you present the illusion that any of these have in any way continued to matter after the inauguration. This didn't take place. If you lie to get elected, and clearly that's required, you need to continue to lie if you win. Transitioning from "Yes we can" to "We all have to sacrifice" doesn't work.
How far do you want to take this? Is the outcome really substantively different than if McCain had won the election? Maybe. The SCOTUS justices matter, but the rest? Hard to say.
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