He had two years with a super-majority in Congress and the best he could do was pass a failed stimulus bill and a health care law that is still one of the most detested bills in history.
Via RCP:
ANCHOR: When I finally got to sit down with the president, I ask him if he was as fed up as Hoosiers have told us they are.
One of the quotes here was — on a level or a scale of one to ten, they’re here (hand motion), they’re at a ten. So I’m asking you, on a personal level, what’s your frustration level on a one to ten scale.
OBAMA: It’s off the scale. When you think about the challenges we face as a country, most of these challenges are solvable pretty quickly.