You know you're fucking up when your lapdog environmental group is turning against you.

[MadHound]

16. Here,

"Melissa Block speaks with Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, about the approved one-time use of peaceful civil disobedience for the first time in the group's history. They will be participating in a climate rally in February in Washington, D.C."
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/24/170198088/sierra-club-civil-disobedience-is-part-of-a-great-american-tradition?ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs%3A+All+Things+Considered%29&utm_content=Yahoo+Search+Results

"President Barack Obama has pledged to make climate change a top priority for the next four years, and environmental groups are putting pressure on the president to back up his words with actions. The Sierra Club has approved an action in civil disobedience for the first time in the group's history."
http://current.com/groups/news-blog/94029325_sierra-club-approves-civil-disobedience-in-response-to-keystone.htm

"The Sierra Club is the conservative, curmudgeonly grandfather of environmentalist groups. But the nonprofit has moved to break its historic ban on civil disobedience over the Keystone XL pipeline as President Obama stalls his decision on whether to approve the TransCanada project."
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/even_the_sierra_club_gets_disobedient_over_keystone_xl/

Now do you get it? The very first time the Sierra Club for the Sierra Club, the environmental group that has, for a long time provided political cover and environmental cache for Democratic politicians and presidents, is going to engage in civil disobedience in protest against any president or administration over a proposed environmental policy. Not a Republican administration, despite the horrors that they have inflicted upon us over the decades, but a Democratic one, this one.

As much as you want to downplay and trivialize this action, it is a huge break with the administration and Democrats in general.