Speaking at the “Politics and Eggs” breakfast series at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics yesterday, President Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod said it was clear that both sides of the aisle did not share “equal blame” for congressional deadlock. Indeed, he noted that various Democrats thought the President was “too eager” to work with Republicans in the early days, according to the Daily Caller.“I’m not willing to assign, sort of, equal blame for what’s happened in Washington,” Axelrod said. “You know, there are Democrats in this room who I think would argue that the President was too eager to try and find a path forward; was too eager to try to bring people together in the face of the evidence that the other side didn’t want to do that.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106552