Most progressives agree (to at least some extent) that President Obama is overly conciliatory to the Right; pulls his punches before they even feint; and needs to toughen up to get anything done in the next two years.

There's no particular evidence that he has the slightest clue how emphatically (nay, desperately) we wish he'd get his shit together and wield the power of the office we gave him. Some hope gleams in Elizabeth Warren's arrival and Larry Summers' departure. I still think that, within his circle, the demands from the center are presented as fringe whinging from the Left.

Over on my longtime hang-out The Well, the idea has emerged to send Balls to Obama.

If he's not going to use the set god gave him, let's provide some. In quantity. From every one of the States. Hell, from every corner of the world!

All kinds of balls. Brass ones, wooden ones - as the song says, long ones, tall ones, short ones, black ones, brown ones, big ones crazy ones ... anyway. You get the idea.

So the White House is deluged with balls. Think the Pres will take the hint? Is this offensive? Brilliant? Juvenile? An appropriate hint from an appropriately aggrieved electorate?

For now, let's chat this over in the Comments section. Monday (when someone less technically idiotic than me is around) we'll put up a poll. My bias? I think we should send them. Some sort of message from the outer world needs to penetrate that Oval Office.