Obama, our "do nothing" President must be running against his own Democrat run "do nothing" Senate?...A brillant Idea!

Here's Obama planning to run against a "do nothing" Congress....he is a "do nothing" President running against a "do nothing" Senate???? He must be because the Senate run by his own "dirty" Harry Reid is actually doing nothing because Reid won't allow anything to come to the floor....The House is doing something...they've passed a budget, the repeal of Obamacare, cut, cap and balance and a lot of other pieces of legislation.....SO if I get this right Obama is running against his "do nothing" Senate....now that makes sense???....

Obama may run Truman-style 2012 campaign

Published: 12:39 AM 08/16/2011 | Updated: 6:33 AM 08/16/2011 By Neil Munro

President Barack Obama is eyeing a 2012 campaign modeled on President Harry Truman’s 1948 successful re-election campaign against Congress. First, however, the White House will send to Capitol Hill an assortment of ‘economy-boosting’ legislation in a package that may include a major overhaul of the tax code.

“I’ll be putting forward, when they come back in September, a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs, and to control our deficit,” Obama told a friendly audience at a Decorah, Minnesota campaign-event on Monday.

“My attitude is, get it done … [but] if they don’t get it done, then we’ll be running against a Congress that’s not doing anything for the American people, and the choice will be very stark and will be very clear.”

“My hope is that Congress is willing to take up tax reform,” he said. “So far they’ve said that they’re willing to do it, but so far we haven’t seen a lot of energy on the part of some folks in actually delivering on tax reform,” he added.

The potential success of Obama’s proposed strategy is unclear. The GOP nominee has not been selected and Obama’s approval rate has declined to 39 percentage points, according to Gallup. Also, Obama failed to get Republicans in Congress to approve a tax-boosting “Grand Bargain” during the debt-ceiling talks, even though a deal would have bolstered his campaign-trail claims that he is a fiscal conservative and a consensus builder in Washington.

The run-against-Congress campaign strategy echoes the successful 1948 campaign of President Harry Truman, who also inveighed against a “do-nothing” Congress while competing against a GOP presidential candidate.

The Republicans had a 60-vote majority in the House, and passed many pro-growth bills that were signed into law by Truman. The House passed the Taft-Hartley union regulation bill and a landmark defense reform measure. It also enacted the forerunner to the Current Clean Water Act. The House established the military ties that would become NATO and the the Marshall Plan, which helped revive the war-damaged European economies.

But Truman’s do-nothing claim stuck, partly because the country was in a postwar recession.

Truman won the election with 49.6 percent of the vote against the expected winner, New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, who took 45.1 percent of the vote.

Obama did not describe the proposals that he would send to Congress in September, but did repeat a litany of measures that he has cited in his stump speeches. The proposals include an update of patent laws, a government backed infrastructure bank to fund state and local construction projects, tax increases on wealthy Americans, passage of three free-trade deals and extension of the temporary payroll tax-cut.