Hold on, Bobert et al.    He knows people left of center are disappointed in him, and that he desperately needs them. And he will do something about it---I've already given the most likely response. (By the way, don't expect the end of DADT--that he cannot and will not do. That has to be done either by the courts or by Congress--neither of which he controls--as you know, he has even less clout now in Congress than before the midterms.)

And "for the good of the country he should step down."    C'mon--sorry, that makes no sense at all.   That will just guarantee internecine warfare--and a series of very bloody primaries--on the Democratic side.

What you want--and may well get, if Obama does what I suggest above--is civil war among the Republicans.

Mudcatters need to reread Neustadt:   the power to persuade is by far the top power of the president.   But he has to use his political capital sensibly.