LA Times blogger/former Bush flack Andrew Malcolm writes:

According to the president, he's been “adamant” with Congress for months now about a new jobs bill to help small businesses. Obama says this really good bill is stalled in the Senate, where so much administration legislation has been crammed through so effectively by Majority Leader Harry Reid.

…

Reid's up against a conservative Republican. So, That means that Harry Reid must be a Democrat, just like Obama, and just like 59% of the Senate's votes.

The very same party that has controlled both houses of Congress since the 2006 election and really controlled them both since the 2008 hopey-changey balloting.

So, facing the growing grim possibility of a GOP surge on Nov. 2, is this maybe the start of buddy-bickering within the Democratic huddle? [Emphasis added]

As Andrew Malcolm damn well knows, when Barack Obama said the bill is stalled in the Senate, he was criticizing Republicans who are blocking it, not the Democrats who run the Senate. Republicans are able to block it because, as Andrew Malcolm damn well knows, the Senate's rules make it difficult to do much of anything with a simple majority.

Here's President Obama:

When Congress reconvenes, this jobs bill will be the first business out of the gate. And the Senate Republican leadership needs to stop its efforts to block it. Let's put aside the partisanship for awhile and work together for small businesses, for employees, and the communities that depend on them across this great country.

That's the comment that Andrew Malcolm suggests is “the start of buddy-bickering within the Democratic huddle” -- a statement by the Democratic president that the Republican leadership should stop blocking legislation.

Andrew Malcolm isn't dumb enough to believe that Obama was criticizing Senate Democrats. He just thinks you are.