Disturber, you write that running against Congress worked for Truman, but won't work for Obama because of ideology. If the Truman party was so much to the right of today's, how is it that the President's proposed top tax rate is far lower than Truman's? http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213 And, what about Truman's support for a national health service that entailed far more government intervention than Obamacare does?