No you don't have to strong arm them but you don't need to lay down for them either.
I got disgusted with Frist when those memos about how to block Bush's judge nominees was found on those shared computers and some of the stuff they were going to do was illegal and Frist didn't push it. He let the story become about the Republican who found the memos. They accused him of stealing Democrat documents and Frist never set the record straight about that. He had the Rats where we wanted them and he let them slip away unscathed.