Kos proclaims that the Democrats have a base problem:
[The Democratic base doesn't] need blogs or MSNBC to tell them that Democrats can't govern. They already knew that Republicans don't want to govern, but the Democrats were supposed to be different. And they are, they want to govern, but they can't. And the voters that worked their asses off to give Democrats the White House and super majorities in Congress are now realizing that it was all for nothing. That all that talk about hope and change was cynical bullshit designed to motivate them. It worked once, but that crowd is learning the art of political cynicism, and it ain't pretty.
Which is one more reason that failure to pass the health reform bill would be fatal – both substantively and politically. In my view, a failure to pass it will end Obama's presidential coalition and destroy his political viability. Why? Because it will reflect a failure of nerve. And Obama has no chance of doing what he wants to do without nerve.
Less vague hope, Mr president. More specific audacity.
The Dish 