I'm happy he is doing it, but he just ruined anything else happening you might like in his presidency, a fact you all know but won't admit.
That assumes McConnell and Boehner would actually let Obama have any accomplishments. What did he get in return for reaching across the aisle in 2009-2010 again?
It's not them who you need to worry about, it's the one's who wouldn't have voted with those two. Both are going to face big defections from both the right and left, and Obama could have capitalized on it, if he didn't do this. Now he is just too toxic for rep's to touch him.
