It’s rare when a president is given an opportunity to reboot in the middle of a term, but that’s what the end of the government shutdown has provided President Obama. The question now is: What will he do with it? …
Obama will continue to face unyielding opposition from the tea party Republicans in the House and Senate. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) made that clear Wednesday when he denounced the Senate compromise and praised those in the House whose opposition to the new health-care law triggered the crisis.
The key now is whether the president has a strategy to govern around them by winning support from what he called the responsible Republicans. [cont.]
Dan Balz, Washington Post