This is just a bench mark that will evolve and the additions to the list are good like the war on drugs and an explicit mention of ending union busting which I should have included.
Maybe this is what's going on. You bring the critics close because the source of their criticism is jealousy. It's a character flaw on the part of the jealous. If they're capable, give them a job and make them work for you. If they act up, fire them.
Obama said keep Lieberman in the caucus. That was a message to take his chairmanship if they wanted to. The cowards lacked the courage to do that, including the six newly elected Democratic Senators (like the new House members from 2006 who failed to oppose the war).
Right now the condemnation is on the Senators who destroyed the meaning of party loyalty in favor of their ultimate affiliation, The Money Party.
I'm in a "relief" mode ... no more ugliness. If the permanent power mavens think that the public will tolerate a repeat of the spineless behavior of the past, then it's on us to see that Obama, with his 70% approval, jumps on Congress, which is still at 14% or so. Never a better time to assert authority to make them do their job.
Opponents and Enemies
http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/inside.asp?pageID=26&subjectID=1
"He used to say to me when I talked to him about Chase & those who did him Evil - Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship," Mrs. Lincoln said of Mr. Lincoln.1 "We must never sell old friends to buy old enemies,." Mr. Lincoln once wrote.2 Mr. Lincoln "was certainly a very poor hater," recalled friend Leonard Swett. "He never judged men by his like, or dislike for them. If any given act was to be performed, he could understand that his enemy could do it just as well as any one. If a man had maligned him, or been guilty of personal ill-treatment and abuse, and was the fittest man for the place, he would put him in his Cabinet just as soon as he would his friend."3
Snip
"Lincoln is the ablest and most honest."16 Capers quoted Douglas refuting a friend who criticized Mr. Lincoln as weak: "No, he is not that, Sir. But he is eminently a man of the atmosphere which surrounds him. He has not yet got out of Springfield...He does not know that he is President-elect of the United States. He does not see that the shadow he casts is any bigger now than it was last year. It will not take him long when he has got established in the White House. But he has not found it out yet.'"
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