Obama’s Go-It-Alone Strategy

President Obama “has long since concluded that pursuing dreams of reconciliation in his final two years in office is a fool’s chase. So he is offering an alternative model for 21st-century presidential success,” the New York Times reports.

“It does not hinge on job approval ratings… His current approach does not depend on bipartisan deal making or good cheer… It does not even turn on protecting the political interests of his party… It turns, instead, on advancing the major policy goals that Mr. Obama embraced as a candidate. Through that prism, he continues to make progress.”