Obama’s supporters tell us that if we oppose our first black president on policy matters, then we’re racist. If that’s the case, there are an awful lot of racists all of a sudden, and they’re white, Jewish, Hispanic and independent:

Amid the din of “Yes, we can!” chants, it seemed that nothing could bring the history-making President down. But now, with his policies largely unpopular and his inability to goose economic growth increasingly apparent, Obama’s once powerful political coalition is imploding.