" Obama is trying far to hard to elicit cooperation and build concensus when this is the absolutely last thing that he will ever get from the neo-"conservatives." Sometimes you just can't "make nice."

Don...from what I've seen lately, he is getting that point! It may be that he knew what would happen, and just wanted the record to be crystal-clear that he TRIED and made offers and listened. Whatever... his rhetoric is getting harsher and the Dems procedures reflecting the truth.
It's hard to wrap one's head around the idea that the Dems really think differently than the Repubs about how to BE in power. During the Bush era, he & his minions had no trouble asserting that THEY won, and they were gonna do what they wanted! (Witness all Bush's 'signing statements' to avoid legislation that the liberal could fight.)

This Wall Street reform is one example, and now he intends to try immigration... we shall see.