This video shows Dick Morris comparing Obama's reaction to his critics with Roosevelt's reaction during the New Deal. He says Roosevelt ran to the right in the early New Deal, but he realized he couldn't get unemployment down any lower. So in 1936 or so, he launched his attacks against the "economic royalists" and so on. He he lost control of Congress after 1938 and the New Deal was over.

Morris may be wrong about some of his interpretation, but he claims that Obama is following the same pattern: he can't get unemployment down any lower than it is (in fact it may go up), health care legislation is stalled, foreign policy problems are intractable, so he's attacking Fox News, the chamber of commerce, etc. He hopes this will rally the Democrat base against all opposition.