Yep, he's driven the base away from the Democratic party or - at best - left them feeling so helpless to do anything but vote against Republicans and not FOR Democrats that they are demoralized and, despite their fears of worse to come, will stay away from the polls in droves. Brilliant strategy of re-election leadership.
Now the line coming from the White House, and I can hardly contain my laughter and disgust, is that Obama's justice department must appeal decisions he personally disagrees with, such as those on DOMA and DADT, lest a future Republican president fail to appeal future decisions ruling against, for example, the constitutionality of the health care bill.
OMG.
Either he's lying through his big teeth or he's the stupidest man alive. And, I'll give him one thing, he's the most intelligent president we've had in generations.
His idea of bowing down and granting ground to the Republicans in gestures to gain acquiescence on their parts was noble the first time, and perhaps the tenth. It has never worked, and if he doesn't know by now it never will - then I take back what I just wrote about his intelligence.
Nope, the thought that some future Republican president will refrain from appealing an anti-health bill ruling simply because he pursued the vitality of unconstitutional discriminatory laws with vigor against the mutually-hated queers of America is laughable in a madman sort of way.
So, yeah, I'm pretty mad.