Also, i'd point out that most of the stuff you want to focus on... is stuff that will only get worse if focused on. No matter which party gets it's way.
Both parties have outdates and silly ideas on how to sovle such problems, and such ideas often are only going to do more damage then good.
So... i'd rather government be distracted, until they're ready to look at some new ideas.
PS: Also, i wouldn't be looking to not blame Obama for the IRS thing, but to blame him inconjunction with Bush. Since it looks like the reogrizations that basically allowed this to happen without anyone noticing was done under a a Bush apointee. For this happening under his watch and being kept underwraps until enough time had passed from the election for it to blow over "or so they thought"...
that's another issue however.
