Comment: First of all when an Obama staffer asked Obama's chief of staff if he should contact the republican's for input Rahm Emanuel replied "F**k em we got the votes"
And  Boehner  tried but Obama couldn't keep a promise and kept moving the goal posts.  Obama was so bad that after essentially coming to an agreement with the debt ceiling and the budget with Boehner in a meeting at the WH.  By the time Boehner got back to his office Obama had left a message that he had changed his mind and wanted hundreds of billions more in spending.  
Just a few of the points in Bob Woodward's book.