Lamest excuse ever.
Via Politico:
President Barack Obama didn’t take a hands-on role in the unsuccessful deficit-reduction efforts by the congressional supercommittee because Republicans would have felt obliged to oppose anything he proposed, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday.
“They don’t want to give the president any credit for achieving things,” Durbin said. “We know that if he came into the supercommittee negotiations, it wouldn’t be constructive on the Republican side. We know where the president stands.