This argument is like arguing which poop smells less. They are all incompetent cowards worried about their image first. None of them would do anything to tarni

This argument is like arguing which poop smells less. They are all incompetent cowards worried about their image first. None of them would do anything to tarnish their chance for re-election, all of the 'drastic' measures are taken after public is OK with it (i.e. too late to be drastic measures). So maybe both sides can acknowledge the fact that they tried to defend their own little piles of poop and move on.