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Kim Messick lives and writes in North Carolina. He's working on a novel.

I saw that too, and thought that made sense since this piece is a good start on one. In this guy’s universe, the Republicans were effective from the start in being able to obstruct Obama’s agenda. In this world, Obama had a majority in the House and a veto-proof majority in the Senate.
In this world, Obama arrogantly announced to the Republican Congressional minorities that “I won,” and their opinions didn’t matter to him. And they were, according to Obama, not to listen to a respected commentator (Limbaugh).

The novelist’s world has it that since some conservatives had bruited some of the ideas in Obamacare, Obama had a right to expect Republican support for the measure. In the real world, the “Affordable Care Act” was voted in by the Democrat majority in the House on a “we have to pass it to see what’s in it” basis. Sight unseen.
In our novelist’s world, no evidence has arisen to indicate that ObamaCare was at all susceptible of improvement. In the real world, Obama lied that “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” And, “If you like your (health care) plan, you can keep your plan.” In the real world, you couldn’t (I personally couldn’t keep my plan). In the real world the “Affordable Care” Act isn’t affordable, and threatens to seriously compromise the quality of our health care. In the real world, Obama arbitrarily gives waivers to some people but not others, and arbitrarily delays enforcement of some of the bitterest medicine in his act until after tomorrow’s election.
In the novelist’s world there can be no legitimate objection to a POTUS flouting US immigration law rather than “tak[ing] care that the law be faithfully enforced.” In the novelist’s world Benghazi never happened, and neither did the rise of ISIS. Nor VA gate, nor IRS gate, nor . . .