President Obama, let me tell you about basketball - even though I've never played it! It's obvious from watching you play hoops, that you are a team player, and a good one at that, but you need to pass off to YOUR OWN team mates so that you can achieve your objective - which is to win - or to achieve the desired results for the American people.

We voted for you to change what the Reagan and Bush Republicans ( of the last thirty years ) have wrought - not to toady to those who were in charge of causing today's problems. It's too bad that in the name of bipartisanship - which the majority of today's Republicans obviously want no part of - you insist on passing the ball over to them.

Most Americans are sick and tired of seeing the radical partisanship of the last administration, and would like this to change, but our nation's safety, its economy, and the planet's health are in more urgent need of remediation. Save the bipartisanship for when the Republicans are willing to reciprocate.