Obama accepts blame with an ever-more-obstructionist GOP

Considering the stubbornness of his opposition, I thought President Barack Obama was being quite generous in expressing “regrets” over his role in Washington’s dysfunction.

“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency,” he said, “that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better.”

He shouldn’t be too hard on himself, in my view. When it comes to stirring “rancor an