away is he helping or hurting the democratic party and people running for re-election? obama ran as an outsider and he didn t rise through the ranks. does president obama think he s above party politics? above washington. your reporting says that the president has been high hatting the democrats on the hill. they re all grubby, trying to get reelected, sweating it out. they ve got to run this year. he doesn t. he doesn t. what s their strategy? they had a meeting where all the leadership of the house democrats basically said to david axelrod and other aides, stop saying washington is broken. what did they say back? we run washington. i know. as democrats in the majority everywhere in the congress. they run the house and senate. they are the government party. can they deny they re the government party? well, they heard him. and i think the white house has done a couple of carefully orchestrated speeches specifically to calm that particular problem. i think there s differen