Link.On Capitol Hill, Republicans say they rarely hear from the president, and members of his own party complain that Mr. Obama and his top aides are handicapping themselves by not reaching out enough.
“When you have relationships with individual members, you can call them up and ask a favor, and a lot of times, if it’s not objectionable, you can get things done,” said Representative Dennis A. Cardoza, Democrat of California....
White House officials, however, counter that Mr. Obama’s detachment from Congress could end up benefiting him politically. After all, many Americans regard this Congress as dysfunctional, with abysmal approval ratings.
So... if you're dysfunctional with the dysfunctional, you're...
functional! Despite the narrative in Washington of Mr. Obama as a loner, his friends and aides say he likes people just fine....
That's not a contradiction. You could like people just fine and want nothing to do with the particular people who happen to be in Congress. Don't
you identify with that?
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