"If you have a cynical attempt to prevent the president from getting credit for doing anything -– completely partisan and trying to destroy the presidency -– then those things will happen. I started coming back and telling my staff and my friends -– way back in spring of ’09 -– that something is going on out there that is pretty deadly and pretty harsh even before we had any idea what the health care bill was going to be. There appears to be a systematic, conscious attempt to dismantle this president, so I’m less surprised than other people." Senator Russ Feingold