INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Are Democrats Fleeing Obama’s Sinking Ship? “Perhaps Democrats know something the rest of us don’t about Barack Obama’s political fortunes. What else explains the increasing numbers who are openly defying the president on two key election issues? The notoriously thin-skinned Obama could not have been happy with the news last week that, as the Hill newspaper put it, ‘an increasing number of Democrats are taking potshots at President Obama’s health care law.’ . . . This fear is even more evident when you look at the growing opposition among Democrats to Obama’s position on the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama may have thought he’d cleverly handled the issue by putting it off until next year, and that no one would think to defy his veto threats. But when Republicans called his bluff with a bill to force a start on construction, 69 Democrats rushed to join them, giving the House bill a veto-proof majority. The Senate bill is just a vote or two away from overcoming a Democratic filibuster.”