For the sake of civility, I concede the point about who's being more indignant.
However, the bottom line is that the President needs to do something other than play the game as it's been played for 20 or so years. As many folks have argued, he can't govern or get much done because of the absurd cloture rules and the existence of deliberate, solutionless obstructionism by the repugs.
The repugs use little if any "reason" in their discourse. It is full-tilt fear-mongering and hyperbole. Obama can NOT let them be the only ones in the spotlight. He has ceded the repugs all the air time to pitch their "side." Ignoring them - like how Kerry ignored (he 'didn't dignify their allegations') the swiftboater slanders - has been proved to deliver election losses. Kerry was ahead until the swiftboaters came - don't forget that.
So how is Obama going to get ANYTHING done AT ALL if we lose seats in the Senate (at least the seats not being taken up by the useless 'blue dogs')? How can he govern if he doesn't invest the time and energy needed to blunt the baseless dribble from the Rs?
I submit that he CAN'T govern if he doesn't fight this fight. Maybe this is chicken or the egg, but really, if he has good sr. officers to run daytoday, he can't afford to cower from the gauntlet laid down by the pugs.
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