How to become irrelevant

As P.M. Carpenter noted today, the progressive activist community has "launched into orbital unhingement over the [William] Daley pick." Making him White House chief of staff is a cataclysmic mistake, the lefties say. Yet, for each dire mistake or failure predicted – from Iraq to healthcare to DADT – Obama has proven them wrong. Why would any sane president listen to them now? Yes, holding Obama’s feet to the fire is both healthy and appropriate. But to be effective, progressives would be wise to heed the words of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”