OBAMA'S WORST ENEMIES ARE HIS FRIENDS – AT 7:20 A.M. ET:  Each party has its kamikaze wing, but the Democratic versions are flying high and heading right for the USS White House.  From Fox:

President Obama's failure to stand his ground in ongoing negotiations with Republicans on key issues from taxes to jobless benefits has stirred howls of protest from many of his supporters on the left who are beginning to question the president's leadership skills.

Supporters say Obama should have been able to close the deal by now on extending the Bush tax cuts for only middle- and lower-income households and renewing another round of unemployment insurance.

Instead, Obama continues to extend his hand to Republican leaders who have made clear that any compromises with the White House on spending and tax cuts would have to be on their terms.

One liberal group, the Progressive Change Committee, is circulating a petition telling Obama that "Americans want him to fight the Bush tax cuts for millionaires – and that Democrats will keep losing if he keeps caving."

And get this:

Obama further enraged his supporters when he announced this week he wanted Congress to freeze the pay of civilian federal government employees as a step toward cutting the huge U.S. budget deficit. The unions have vowed to fight the proposal and Democrats have called it short-sighted.

Yup.  On the far Democratic left they really believe that even higher federal salaries are just what the public wants.

No doubt Mr. Obama is a weak personality.  He's Jimmah Carter with a bit more eloquence.  But the far left is doing to him what it did, successfully, to Lyndon Johnson in 1968. 

Only 20% of Americans now identify themselves as liberals.  And yet, the dedicated liberals believe they can win elections on their radical beliefs alone.  No doubt they're aided in this illusion by the editorial policies of newspapers like The New York Times, which believes all America lives on Manhattan's West Side, and by the fact that the survivors of last month's electoral massacre were primarily liberal Democrats in safe districts. 

We should look at the Democrats, and learn.  For there are some Republicans on the fringe right who think exactly the way the ideological liberals think.  They'll have about as much success in this fundamentally centrist nation.

December 6, 2010