Because Obama is a lame duck now and like usual people tend to run away from weaker presidents. ..samething happened under bush...
There is no story here either.
The story is that it took the dumbass libs 6 ******* years to figure out what the rest of us knew before he took the oath.
No, you never gave him a chance and decided after he got elected, you would never work with Obama because you were all butthurt that you lost.
Then, despite ACTUAL quotes from republican leaders in each house saying they would never work with democrats, you convinced idiotic Americans that the Republicans aren't at fault for the gridlock, it's all Obama for not letting Republicans get everything they wanted.
I mean How dare Obama have the audacity to think he was elected by a majority of voting Americans and could implement some of his policies. He must do EXACTLY what Republicans want so when it inevitably fails (like all republican plans), they can just blame Obama.