Bush went out of his way, even bent over backwards, to try to reach out to Ted Kennedy and other Democrat leaders. He got taken advantage of as his reward, but he did try. I can think of no example of Obama doing anything along these lines, and you seem to have acknowledged it in your comments about "compromise" vs "compromise." What's more, it's clearly unprecedented for the Senate to refuse, simply refuse, to take up hundreds of bills passed by the House and sent on to the Senate, to refuse amendments on the floor, to try to govern by fiat, and etc. Obama hardly ever holds a press conference. Previous presidents of both parties felt almost obliged to do such, even when they knew they were going to be raked over the coals by the press corps. Obama went almost two years (I think it was) without holding one and now has a few only if he wants to announce something. His appointees refuse to answer legal summonses issues by Congress. When was that accepted before? And he again, with the Iran treaty, refuses to let the Congress see the whole of the contents--not unlike the ACA. Transparency? Hardly.
