This has a pretty simple answer.
He should take lessons from Ronald Reagan. Take your case to the people and ask for their help to achieve specifically crafted legislation like Bank Reform, Health Care Reform, Lobby Reform.
He is going to have to get a backbone and not worry about who he is going to politically offend, Most especially in his own party !
Yes his own party has done him such an injustice and can blame him for what did not go right while they are responsible.
Now to get back to the point, Ronald Reagan proved for the first time since Kennedy and Roosevelt that a president can call on its citizens and will find them a positive force that congress will heed to.
Many a speech he gave, sometime with visual charts, and explain the problem and and give the American People a clear plan and you will find the support enormous.
Obamas’ big problem now is time is a wasting. Had he done this in his first year, it would be more effective as political foes begin to chip away at his credibility with dis-information … and the clock is a tick’n…
I for one find the biggest problem with our government (outside of the power of lobbyist) is Congress. I see no alternative but to vote for any Independent no matter their message.
If Obama does not begin to assert himself soon, I will be looking for a Independent Presidential Candidate.