One of the lamest arguments Obama has floated out there is this notion that he is failing because the bad conservatives want him to. He was in total control of both houses until just this past January and the only things the republicans have forced him to do has been to focus on the debt and jobs. He spent his first two years spending and pandering to his base. He is the most intentionally divisive president in modern history and it's all a ruse to cover his own incompetence.