Obama does NOT have the respect of Democrats in congress. He is dead in the water. Congress wants to drive Obama’s agenda.
To date Obama is not in control of ANY legislative agenda.
0 needs to do what he does best and has done seeming immediately after he has won the previous election...vote present or avoid actually voting itself and start campaigning for his next office. Perhaps he can figure out a way of avoiding the nitty gritty presidential stuff and start running for term number two. If he was really creative, maybe he could figure a way to run against term #1 0 and ask for support for new and improved term #2 0.