"From Barack Obama's point of view, the arrival of the House Republican majority in 2011 has amounted to the greatest disaster of his presidency. It is, indeed, the wellspring of nearly everything that has gone wrong. The Republican majority has spurned all entreaties to compromise, turned routine operations of government into hostage dramas, ginned up pseudo-scandals, imposed senselessly punitive fiscal policies, and turned the capital’s political atmosphere into a wasteland, dragging the president's approval ratings down with the GOP's.
"But from Hillary Clinton's point of view, the picture looks quite different."
Jonathan Chait in New York wonders if Republican intransigence will aid
the Democratic nominee in 2016.
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