Obama already knows he can't run again. He wants the Rats in Congress to fall on their swords for "his" healthcare package, knowing damn well it's going to cost them dearly, but it no skin off his nose - he's already done.
“he’s already done.”
We can all see the story line already. Obama was a “brave” president who took on all the special interests on behalf of trying to get “the people” health care they needed. These dumb and impressionable people sadly were duped by lies and distortions made about Obamacare, and for that reason he had to try to just “ram it through” Congress. It wasn’t his fault Pelosi and/or Reid screwed up and couldn’t corral enough votes.
It just goes to show that honest and principled politicians cannot beat the corrupt American political system, so Barack regrettably has concluded that it is a waste of his outsized talents to keep butting his head against the wall trying to fight parochial special interests. He will forego his 2nd term in favor of being named U.N. Secretary etc.