Put a Fork in It! Democrats Prove Incapable of Running the Country, with Obama Leading the Way. Three More Years of This?

Instead of getting the message that running to the middle abandons base voter support and compromises the whole reason why they were elected in the first place, Democrats are now ready to give up on core beliefs. I'm not kidding. NY Times:

President Obama signaled … that he might be willing to scale back his proposed health care overhaul to a version that could attract bipartisan support ... “I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on,” Mr. Obama said … notably leaving near-universal insurance coverage off his list of core goals. Obama seemed to suggest that … he would be willing to settle for what he could get.

But it was not clear that even a stripped-down bill could get through Congress anytime soon.

Senior Republicans showed little new willingness to collaborate with the Democrats. Mr. McConnell was asked if the health care bill was dead. “I sure hope so,” he said.

Even the president’s new proposal to tax big banks for the government’s bailout losses, which Republicans privately conceded was a political winner given widespread anti-Wall Street sentiment, suddenly did not look like such a sure thing. Industry lobbyists noted that Brown publicly opposed the bank tax.

Maybe Obama will give up on that too.