Obama told reporters earlier in the day that Republicans were focused too much on besting him personally rather than thinking about what's best for the country. . . .
Asked why an agreement was proving so elusive after both sides had made concessions, Obama said it might be that "it is very hard for them to say 'yes' to me."
"At some point they've got to take me out of it," Obama said of Republicans, adding they should instead focus on "doing something good for the country."
As a general rule, any time Democrats accuse Republicans of doing something wrong, it is because they are already doing it themselves.