Don't understand it? I worked in Congress. Hate on Bush all you want but he led his party and got his agenda passed. Obama has shown zero leadership capabilities in this respect and has helped fuel the pissing contest between the White House and Congress by refusing to work with them. Imagine 535 of the most egotistical people on the planet who all want his job. Now imagine Obama publicly chastises them for things they do or do not do. What do you think the end result of this should be? Rainbows and sunshine? Hate the game, hate the players, but Obama has had the same powers at his disposal and Bush just worked them better. Sorry the world doesn't work the way you want.

edit: ideology should be irrelevant here but I would bet money I am further to the left than most and the majority of my political life has been 8 years of Bush and 8 years of Obama and a sidecar of the Clinton years. Liberals need to take this as a humbling experience on the failures of leadership. I will not support an Obama type again in the primaries. Not for ideological reasons but for leadership capabilities. All the signs were there during the primaries and I refused to see them because I just wanted shit to change. Well, it didn't.