I agree with you, for the most part. But I do find it odd that the overwhelming electoral victory that Dems won in 2008 did not garner the same calls from Republicans to “listen to the people.” Instead, the Republicans have blocked every attempt by this administration at governing. Was “the people’s voice” in the 2008 national election not authentic? But the voice of those “elitist” New Englanders must be listened to now?

As for the “supermajority” — the Dems never had it in the Senate. It was a mirage, an illusion. Otherwise, why did they spend so much time courting and cajoling Republicans like Olympia Snowe, and making sweetheart deals with conservative Democrats like Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson?

Consider this quote from Glenn Greenwald: The very idea that an administration run by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel and staffed with centrists, Wall Street mavens, and former Bush officials — and a Congress beholden to Blue Dogs and Lieberdems — has been captive to “the Left” is so patently false that everyone should be too embarrassed to utter it.”