When Jeanne Manford learned that her son Morty had been badly beaten up at a gay rights demonstration, nobody would have faulted her for bringing him home, holdinghimclose, just focusing on her child.
Even with a Republican Congress holdinghim back for half his term, President Obama still managed to increase the federal government by close to one-fourth during that one term, as compared to the average during the entire 60 plus years of the postwar era.