[LS]

My thought exactly, and he was my guy going in. But too polite and play by the rules is exactly the problem. Someone is going to have to not just step on toes on both sides, but break some kneecaps. Tanya Harding, where are you?

[Political Junkie Too]

I think the biggest, but currently unspoken, trait that will be needed is the character fortitude to stand up to the inevitable Obama onslaught when the next President tries to undo ANYTHING that Obama has done. And that assumes that the next President will try to UNDO and not just modify.

I do not expect Obama to go quietly into the night like the Bushes did while their successors wreaked havoc for eight years.

I expect Obama to behave like a Presidente in Exile, trying to still run things from the outside, using Democrats in the Senate to block changes, and the MSM to be his daily press briefing on what he thinks and wants.

The next President will have to be BIG enough, and assertive enough, to go head-to-head with a "no-rules" Obama, and not let the rules of Presidential decorum be used as a weapon against him by former President Obama as he still tries to control the agenda post-presidency.

-PJ