Reply #35: Yes, and? Does that make it right? Also, please see Reply 25.

[No Elephants]

The mythology has been that the Democratic President just washed his Democratic Congress and can't do a thing with it. The idea that it is Obama is the one who is helpless against Congressional Democrats is a joke, not to mention a break from reality.

A Congress will bend over backwards to support the head of the majority party (not to mention the person who ultimately controls National Committee money and pretty much also controls who in the Party does or does not campaign for a candidate).

However, it's Democratic members of Congress who are suing this Democratic administration--and not for the first time. There is also a bipartisan suit for violating the war clause of the Constitution (I wonder how often in all of U.S. history members of the majority Congress have sued a President of their own Party, especially over a violation of the Constitution.)

And members of the Progressive Caucus did vote against his "Grand" Bargain. So, there are at least some who are trying to buck the Obama, at no small danger to their own re-elections. The rest are being obedient to their Party head--and I hope to God they pay a price for it in primaries.