Barack Obama ran as a hope-and-change candidate who was going to forget about red states and blue states and have us all singing “kumbaya” together on some make-believe hilltop in the Land of Post-Partisanship. Those dreams are long since dashed — as the president’s critics on both sides acknowledge. But we got yet another reminder about the president’s inability to bridge partisan divides this week, when White House press secretary Josh Ernest declared, “If this bill passes this Congress, the president wouldn’t sign it.”
He was referring to the Keystone XL pipeline.