...the consent of the governed.

It seems to me that when you begin to push a radical agenda because you won the Presidency by a simple majority that was no where near the landslide MSNBC would like to make it, you're asking for trouble. Trouble of the 1861 variety.

Maybe the Democrats, and for that matter the Republicrats, need to reconsider what that line in the Declaration of Independence about consent of the governed really means. They can start by checking out this and this.