 Because he was fully able to manipulate them. If you embrace that theory, that it was really Obama who's been running things, then you would have to say it worked pretty well. He got a lot of what he wanted accomplished. I mean, we're a mess as a country. And it's gone totally, you know, whack job liberal and spindled out of control. We're involved in supporting two wars. We have a totally open border. We're vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The economy for the everyday regular people is a mess.