The Democrats in a funk.

"I hope President Obama, who's intensely intelligent, understands that he needs to ... stand tall, stand hard, stand tough," the Nation's editor Katrina vanden Heuvel said recently. "It about morality, principle, good policy, good politics to stand tall on these Bush tax cuts."

Morality demands that he allow taxes to rise during a recession? Maybe Obama has realized that those on the far left are too rigid to work with.