I've heard criticism of Obama from a number of directions, but usually the Left, over how he squandered his Democratic majority in the Senate during the first two years of his term, or else showed himself to be no friend to the Progressives because he didn't pass a Single Payer Health Care, and New New Deal, a Repeal of DOMA, and every other Liberal dream for the last 50 years.
But whether or not Obama could have actively tried to do more (I tend to agree, to some degree), the idea that he had a solid Democratic majority in the Senate for two years is a myth, as the chart in the article below, plus the GOP's declaration that they'd block anything that couldn't get a cloture vote, meant that the Dems needed 59-60 votes for pretty much everything … and, with the Blue Dogs and others, those votes simply were not there except for highly compromised legislation (e.g., the ACA) — and, sometimes, not even then.
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**UPDATED: Barack Obama and the myth of the progressive ‘majorities’ : The Reid Report
To progressives who complain about Barack Obama “squandering” the progressive majorities he supposedly had going for him when he was elected president, I refer you to the following chart (from Wikiped…
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