You either have a president who is effective for the right or ineffective for the left. There is nothing else to it...

President Obama will release a budget next week that proposes significant cuts to Medicare and Social Security and fewer tax hikes than in the past, a conciliatory approach that he hopes will convince Republicans to sign onto a grand bargain that would curb government borrowing and replace deep spending cuts that took effect March 1.
We voted for the best thing the political process had to offer: an ineffective president for the left.