The strained relationship between the White House and congressional Democrats is headed for another bad turn as President Obama tries to win an increase to the government’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit.
Obama’s 2012 campaign strategy of distancing himself from Washington, including the members of his own political party, was on ostentatious display during last week’s fight over a spending plan for the remainder of this fiscal year.
As Harry Reid worked to hold his fractious Democratic Senate caucus together behind a deal with the hard-line Republican House, the president was out on the road blowing great hot gusts about wind energy and lamenting the ways of the federal city.
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