Elf Sternberg

Actually, if you read Michael Tomasky's article he points out that his numbers are not scientific at all, are completely based on his arbitrary choic eof 4 bills from each period of time, and that the "Democrat support for Bush" average is completely skewed by his inclusion of "No Child Left Behind" which had extremely unusual bipartisan support. Going for a more "apples to apples" comparison - say comparing bipartisan support he lists for "First Bush Tax Cut" to "The Stimulus" you find the numbers are much closer.

More importantly though I have to ask for the logic behind the step you made from "average opposition party support for major proposal by president" to "voted in the best interests of their constituency and the American People".

Are you implying that any major proposal by a sitting president is automatically in the best interests of the American People? ...that opposition to a sitting president's agenda is automatically not?

There is such a thing as a bad implementation of a good idea....and I think that three of the four cited examples of Obama administration proposals fall under that heading. Opposing the "bad implementation" does not equal opposition to the "good idea".