Despite Some Kool-Aid Nonsense

about Obama's alleged oratorial talent, this post has some good points and agrees with my contention about compromising with the GOP assholes, especially in the Senate:

I believe that there are valuable lessons to be learned by the outcomes of these conciliatory presidencies. They were wholly ineffective in bringing about reconciliation and the nation suffered greatly by the compromises and failures by the more beneficent party (ALWAYS the Democrats)

Further lessons can be learned by looking at the presidency of Jimmy Carter, another conciliator who was thwarted at every turn by the obstructionists whose strength arose from Carter's conciliation. Everything Carter wanted to do was what we needed, and although he is not remembered this way, his policies were a HUGE success, the credit for which Reagan successfully stole. That effort to include the other side in our doings was painted by those very same opponents as weakness and, to our great discomfort, he was defeated when he ran for reelection, precisely as a direct result of his unwillingness to engage in strongarm tactics.

And, perhaps more importantly and relevantly, lessons should be taken from the most successful presidency in our entire history, that of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was NOT a conciliator by any definition, attacking the Republicans and their robber baron constituency boldly and bluntly at every turn. He made no pretense at reconciliation, preferring instead to move America in the direction it needed to go.

Roosevelt took office under conditions very similar to what we face today. We will fail if we give strength to our opponents through compromise and conciliation. We must do what is RIGHT, not what we think will stop their whining. NOTHING will stop their whining, and we cannot permit the media and the American people to give any weight to this whining by incorporating it into our policies and programs now. The Boehners and McConnells of our political landscape and their desire to obstruct and destroy whatever we try to build have to be belittled, despised, demonized, just as they have so routinely done to us, and their influence must be reduced to a universally ridiculed nothingness, nothing more than a mote in the eye of the body politic.

There is no strength in weakness. If Obama really wants to hit the ground running, he needs to come out swinging to clear the road ahead.

Absolutely, but given Obama's penchant for asskissing the other side, I ain't hopeful. Let's hope he doesn't.