Also from The Hill:
President Obama told supporters in a video message Thursday their frustration with the "pace of change" during his time in office is a reason not to pull back but rather to redouble efforts for his reelection.
Obama acknowledged that some of his liberal supporters have felt "impatient" over the administration's follow-through on some 2008 campaign promises.
It's at times like this that I feel "the call." No, not that one, nothing quite so celestial and thus garbled. Just the clear, conscious need to write in measured, restrained tones.
So let me put it this way: Minutes ago I posted a short piece on Sen. Rand Paul's need to suggest to his base that they grow up. To Obama's base: Ditto?
That wouldn't be fair. For the overwhelming majority -- roughly 85 percent at last glance -- of Obama's base is indeed grown up. It already comprehends what Obama explained in the video.
It is, rather, the loud, insufferably sanctimonious liberal "leadership," dwelling especially in the blogosphere, that requires a few lessons in mature politics, from which there derives understanding and acceptance.
Yet their interest in brushing off understanding and refusing acceptance is a vested one. And, as has been pointed out many times by many others, one simply cannot convince someone else of the plain and simple truth of this or that if that someone's livelihood depends on not being convinced.
So where does that leave Obama? In pretty much the same place he was in months ago, or 2-3 years ago, and where he'll be in a year or two hence: with the vast majority of his base fully behind him.
The others? The so-called "professional left"? Well, what more can one say? The important thing, I guess, is merely to start caring less.