Obama’s Odds With Congress: Bad to Worse,2014

            Obama’s Odds With Congress: Bad to Worse

      The new York time collected

       

WASHINGTON — One day in April, President Obama called Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, to wish him a happy Passover. However the call started, it went downhill from there. By day’s end, both sides were arguing about what was said and taking shots at the other for not getting along.

The relationship was in fact prickly from the start. Mr. Obama considered the Republican leader a partisan obstructionist and his main bête noire in the House, while Mr. Cantor viewed the president as an aloof liberal intent on shoving his agenda down the throat of Congress.

                                        

  President Obama passed Representative Eric Cantor, the majority leader, on his way to delivering the State of the Union address last year. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

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