And that defines the problem very nicely....the Democrats are becoming more aware that the Obama Administration's goals are rapidly diverging from those of the Democrats, and many realize there is everything for them to lose by associating themselves with him in any way. Dhimmies like Landrieu have been under increasing pressure over Obamacare for six years, and they are in no mood or position to bail him out of something as toxic as this VA mess is.
And with Obama's successor already annointed by many, lots of Democrats are scared to death of being engulfed by Benghazi along with the Hildebeest.
true, but my point here is that Obuttocks really doesn't need any bailing out, so the game they're playing right now is a version of rope-a-dope where Obuttocks will let those democrats in weak positions use him as a punching bag - within limits, of course - so that they can make it look like they're really not wholly creatures of their own party and its liberal failings, and that they can "stand up to" even their own president when it comes to helping "regular Americans". Clearly there are limits: if the weak democrats were allowed to go completely off-rez and start trashing him the way he really deserved, that might do more harm than good in the upcoming elections, and Obuttocks does still have an ego that needs to be comforted; however, within those limits there is still plenty of room for Obuttocks to play the agreeable "villain" whom the weak democrats can "defeat" in order to garner political points. The calculus would be different if either (a) Obuttocks could still run for re-election in 2016, or (b) the mainstream media wasn't a wholly-owned lapdog of the DNC, but since neither condition holds, there is nothing much lost, and much gained, by allowing the weak democrats - and largely only the weak ones, Reid will never be seen beating up on his "light-skinned negro" - to take swipes at Obuttocks that are more rhetoric than reality.
