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. … Continue reading Durbin: Obama Blew Off Supercommittee Talks Because Republicans Are Mean To Him Or Something…