This raging idiot of a President seems that he has to make one more muck up that will screw the country and the world one last time before he gets voted out of office.
I cannot remember when a President showed such utter lack of leadership when it came to science and space. He pays lip service to his liberal base by making fun of the wack job hard liner conservatives and creationism and global warming, but offers absolutely no leadership to back up the talk.
There has never been such a coward in the White House before this man. From day one, everything he has done screams "Please re-elect me, Please don't let me be a one term president." If you are unwilling to do anything, or to lead, why run for the job in the first place?
And all this talk about Congress, yes Congress has fiscal power, but the President has the bully pulpit, the President sets the national agenda, and this President, going back to the health care debacle, has always given ground where his predecessors showed leadership, pushed through the agenda. This idiot has allowed Congress to become such a road block to anything, not even George W Bush and his polarizing policies could conjure up the sort of resentment that is now seen in Congress.
But hey, he withdrew from Iraq, nicely timed right before the election cycle kicks into high gear. And he is spouting his horrid jobs bill and college loan program (never mind canning all those jobs at NASA, apparently if you dig ditches and pave roads, you should get work, but if you have degrees in engineering and astrophysics, you are too smart to be supported by the Federal Government of these United States.)