Scarborough: Obama didn't lead. Grover isn't more powerful than the PResident

What? He's more powerful when it comes to getting republicants to do what he wants.

THis is the next wave of attacks. The President didn't lead. As if Obama could lead the House of Representatives to pass anything.

The media continues to pretend as if the Republicans didn't plan to sabotage Obama and aren't in the process as we speak.

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They live in the wrong country. If they want to obsess about power, they need to move to a country with no rule of law.

He should be making fun of those who let Grover "lead" them when they have more power, or at least, as much power as one vote in the Senate creates.

keep it's nose out, or they wouldn't even try to reach a compromise? So they shut out the executive, and then blame the executive for not leading? :shrug:

that the Democrats control the Senate. No party controls the Senate without 60 solid votes. How many times have the Republicans in the Senate stopped legislation by refusing to allow it to be voted on?

To say that just because the President is a Democrat and the Dems hold a majority in the Senate that they have any true control is absurd. It takes both parties to agree to govern. The parties have such a disparate view of what government should be and do that is impossible right now. Especially when the Republicans truly are the "Party of No." Compromise means both sides have to give something. The Republicans don't get that.

He'll probably be back on the show soon (I'm not sending him any get well cards), but if he comes back in the state he was in this morning on the phone to the show, he'll be back a full arm waving rant mode...

because Republicans said Boehner, McConnell and the White House couldn't find middle ground.

That mess is entirely on the GOP.

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there would have been one-with or without President Obama.

This whole "failing to lead" meme is getting aggravating to hear. Republicans claim to want to work with President Obama but when he does (and damn near gives away the store) they turn around and oppose everything he proposes and then smears him and then claims that he failed to lead- as though he could somehow MAKE them do what he wants if he were just "leading" whatever the hell that actually means to them. Last Spring and Summer President Obama bent over backwards so far there was a real possibility that his back might actually snap off and yet the Republicans continued to either walk away from the table or throw up more and more unreasonable demands, consequently shutting down the negotiations time after time. It's almost like they want to deliberately sabotage any negotiations and then accuse President Obama for them failing because he couldn't make them stop being unreasonable. :shrug: