"He needs to grow a pair and give the do nothing, dog-in-the-manger, petulant Republican minority some real Harry Truman still style hell."

Most definitely. It's nice that he wanted to bring in a new era of bipartisan cooperation, but he should know by now the Repo-men are not going to give it to him. As if there really ever has been such a thing.

As my friend recently put so well about Obama, "He needs less JFK and more LBJ."