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He thought he could walk into Capitol Hill and the Oval Office and sit down with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the Republicans and say, 'I can't get it all. You can't get it all. Let's work out something that's reasonable,' because he's a reasonable guy, these guys never had any intention of doing (serious) negotiating and compromising ... I think it took the President too long to fully appreciate that.