It’s a major part of his reelection strategy to make it look like he’s doing all he can, despite Congress. But there’s really nothing of substance to most of this stuff. One of his two memoranda today appears just to create an informational website about exporting for small businesses. Trumped up, small potatoes BS.
The OWS crowd will be pleased.
I think you’re on the right path with your assessment. I also think Obama is trying to sucker the Republicans into accepting the responsiblity off his back for the economy by trying to trick them into cutting off funding, or other actions that he can blame on them.
If backed into a corner the Democrat, the Leftist “victim” will often if not always look past the aggressor, the opposition and then point at something irrelevant to divert their attention, and use that trick to attempt to make their escape while the aggressor/opposer is occupied with the phony diversion.
Obama’s backed into a corner.