When the worker bees don't do their job, the queen dies and no honey is made.  When the basketball or football team refuses to work with one another, the game is lost.  When the troops sit back and refuse to fight, the general loses the war, when the employees won't do the work they are hired to do, the company goes down.

Commentators have been recently blaming President Barack Obama for not getting things done.  Saturday Night Live recently did a sketch about what Obama's not done.  What these people simply ignore is, the fact that it is the members of the Democratic Party that are not doing their jobs that is causing legislation not to get voted on or approved and to make matters even worse, the Republican Party has decided to do the switch-a-rue and be the Party of "No" instead of "Yes" as they had been during the previous 8 years of the Bush/Cheney administration.

You can have the best and brightest leadership; but if the crew refuses to do their part - nothing will get done just ask any CEO, General or boss.

If the Obama administration doesn't pass health care reform, the energy or climate control bill it won't be because of lack of trying, it will be because the Democratic Party could not stand 'as one' (as a team) on anything.

On the other hand, if the Obama administration gets stuck in Iraq, doesn't close Guantanamo, or they choose the wrong strategy for Afghanistan or they continue to refuse to go after those that allowed torture during the Bush administration, it will be because Barack Obama failed.  He's the "Decider" as George W Bush called it, in those situations.

The only thing, if none of the above is accomplished or stopped, the Obama administration can take credit for is, stopping another Great Depression from happening and upgrading our infrastructure such as our roads, bridges, medical systems, transportation and energy grids around the nation by passing the Recovery and Reinvestment bill with the team of the Democratic Party.  He accomplished all this while being handed the worse economy since the Great Depression, two wars, two rogue nations building nuclear weapons, a prison that needed to be shut down years ago, a pandemic flu and a world's dislike of America because of the way the Bush administration treated them while they invaded Iraq.

Those things alone should leave him in a better light historically than the previous administration.

If however, he and the Democratic Party finally start working together as a team by finally passing the health care reform package and getting an energy bill passed --on top of saving the nation from a great depression.  And he is able to get something accomplished with Iran and North Korea - he will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents.  At the same time, the Democratic Party will stay in power a few more years so they can improve upon those previous steps taken.

I also happen to think that if his administration takes on those that committed war crimes - they will be known as the true protectors of our Constitution and our troops.