re: Is Cassidy really the best we can come up with in Louisiana these days?

I think Obama can work with people, he just doesn't want to because he really doesn't have to. Obama has no desire nor any incentive to compromise because he knows the media will consistently cast his opinion as "on the right side of history" and that if he holds his line long enough and if the media ones their job, he will eventually get most of what he wants without having to give up anything.