I'd argue that it's impossible to do anything with people so petty, hateful and vindictive.

Cotton is the same guy, of course, who took a huge bribe from Israel to try to blow up the Iran deal.

Cotton eventually released the two other holds, but not the one on Butts. She told me that she once went to see him about it, and he explained that he knew that she was a close friend of Obama’s — the two first encountered each other on a line for financial-aid forms at Harvard Law School, where they were classmates — and that blocking her was a way to inflict special pain on the president.

Cotton’s spokeswoman did not dispute Butts’s characterization of that meeting, and stressed, in separate emails, that Cotton had enormous respect for her and her career.

That’s Washington for you. Deeply admiring someone is supposed to be a consolation for — and not a contradiction of — using him or her as a weapon.

History will not be kind to Rs when it writes the story of the treatment of President Obama by the opposition party.

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Most of what I disagree with Obama about is a continuation and expansion of Bush's policies--failure to roll back surveillance and indeed expansion of that, continuation of adventurism in the Middle East and failure to wrap up what he termed the "good war" in Afghanistan, overuse of executive power (nowhere in the constitution does it mention that law can be changed by a "Dear Colleague" letter) and the ACA.

But I am predisposed to dislike Obama; because bottom line he is a statist, just like GWB, just like WJC, just like DOnald J Trump, just like HRC and somewhat like Bernie. He just wants the state to use different means to different ends.

Having said that I think he never had a chance to succeed with some especially those who accuse others of racism for just pointing out racism.

I think he acted decisively in taking out OBL, he deserves kudos for not getting his further dragged into the quagmire of ISIS/Syria, has avoided temptation to ratchet up involvement in Yemen and elsewhere. The jury is still out in my mind about Iran, but the criticism he's receiving there is very similar to what Reagan received for Reykjavik.

And criticizing him for not bringing the country together ---well, some people don't want to be brought together be it by a black man, white woman, Jewish socialists, weed smoking ex-governor or over compensating billionaire rich guy.