It’s not just a Congress that would oppose him, it’s a Congress that he speculates would have opposed him IF HE’D DONE ANYTHING.
The man has really cast loose his moorings.
That is exactly the way to look at it.
The President has manufactured an excuse from a hypothesis.
It's really one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard a President say. Even Jimmeh Cahtuh never went this far.
I'll give him an "I" for Imagination. But an "F" on everything else.