Imagine you are President Obama. You have about two more years in office, but your agenda is dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Congress that takes over in January. What do you do?
One obvious strategy is to search for areas of common ground. However, the prospects for resolving existing stalemates in Washington on issues like immigration reform are unclear…
Instead, Mr. Obama may seek to bring new issues into the conversation. That’s what he did Monday when he called on the Federal Communications Commission to promote “net neutrality”…
[T]he President’s increasingly public embrace of net neutrality (which he has supported since his 2008 campaign) could come at a significant cost. Though Congress is already divided along party lines on the issue, Mr. Obama’s advocacy could strengthen Republican opposition to the issue.