Dan Rather nailed something just now

[BootinUp]

Obama needs to combine a little talk of working together but with some of Truman's fight on issues he cares about, and those issues better be jobs.

[emulatorloo]

1. Pretty much

He has to make some conciliatory noises, we lost the house. He certainly is not going to come out like delusional Carl Paladino, with a baseball bat.

But that doesn't mean he has to do every crazy shit thing Boehner comes up with. And last I heard McConnell was still minority leader - I don't see where McConnell is in any position to make demands.

[YOY]

2. That evil old media "librul"*

*anyone who points out the painfully obvious.

[chimpymustgo]

3. Give 'em hell, Barry!

[HereSince1628]

4. And with the likes of crazy Michelle Bachman screaming jobs, Jobs!, JOB!!

It might just be possible to get something done about jobs, if it doesn't have anything to do with the notion of the use of federal dollars to create demand and stimulate the economy.

In that respect I am thinking some good old fashioned pro-USA stands on the imbalance of trade, but that'll need to clear Walmart's board of directors first.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. What happened to the big stick?

[Old Codger]

6. Sad but

The only time he has put up much fight seems to be to get elected and then a little tad at the end of this last campaign. He appears to me to be what I call a people pleaser. He wants to be everyone's friend,regardless of the fact that they asserted their main goal was for him to fail time and time again. That won't work. He seem to be destined to be a one term president unless he turns around and decides to stand up for his espoused convictions.

[Vincardog]

7. I do not believe he is capable of standing up for his espoused convictions. Not if they piss anyone

off/ except the Loony Left Like ME

[Old Codger]

8. Yup

You got it. Another consideration that I hate to entertain but is a possibility and that is that he is in fact getting what he and his backers want, they gave away the public option they gave away the farm on prescription drugs and sat on their hands through the whole process and allowed every idea the repugs had to be incorporated into a complete falacy of a health care reform, it is in fact one of the bigger boondoggles in history along with the medicare prescription drug plan a 400 billion dollar gift to pharma. this one is a multi billion dollar gift to insurance.

[donheld]

9. Yes, He tries to everybody except his strongest 2008 supporters

[laughingliberal]

10. Many people know he needs a little more Truman. Doubt we'll see it. nt

[Johonny]

11. I think we will

The memo out today is: Obama will try nice guy for the next 3 months see what passes. Then go Truman like after the Republicans make it clear they aren't interested in working together. The thought is if he goes negative now he hasn't much to gain and will just look like a sore loser. But they have three months where they control the agenda in both houses still and three months to push the idea that Republicans don't want to get along. Then go to hell with them. Will it work? It might get him elected, but I don't think 2 years of wasted legislation time has me all excited.

[laughingliberal]

13. I will be pleasantly surprised if we see that. More so if we see it before SS & Medicare are gutted

[Naturyl]

12. Those issues better be much more than just "jobs."

We have two pointless wars dragging on into historic lengths and wasting historic sums of money. We have climate change which is accelerating and also being denied by the delusionals elected yesterday. We have poverty and homelessness about which no one wants to do anything for decades on end. We have ongoing discrimination against gays as well as racism that has now become a mainstream political movement. We have bullying in the schools that is killing kids. We have a supreme court decision that now allows elections to be totally for sale. We have all these very serious problems and many more - and "jobs" doesn't address a damn one of them.