I’m not really interested in liberals who feel the need to defend Obama’s record on the environment just because they supported him in 2008.Sure I supported him and even voted for him but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to say that what his administration is doing is wrong.

Also put on a slow track by the administration are new rules on storing toxic coal ash, an issue EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said she’d address in the wake of a disastrous Tennessee spill in 2008; earlier this month, EPA officials said they wouldn’t get around to finishing the rules, which were expected by the end of last year, until at least 2012. The powerful coal industry scored another victory when the administration delayed an EPA guideline on mountaintop-removal mining last month.

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But those are moral and financial reasons to regulate, not political ones. Here’s an argument Obama and his political advisors might grasp: It’s possible for a president to so alienate his base that it fails to show up on election day. Something to keep in mind before November 2012 rolls around.

What happens when a president takes his base for granted? We’ll see if all those adoring millions turn out in November to support this kind of governance.