What Is This Admitting?

I think it is safe to say the left is having a hissy fit in response to President Obama's plan to "freeze" the budget for three years starting in 2011. I'm sure Obama doesn't mean it, so I'm not sure how important his announcement is, but I found the logic behind some of the criticism enlightening considering the conniptions we are seeing from the left. Here is the take from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight:

I'm fairly certain that the "spending freeze" will poll well in the near-term, and may even take Obama's approval numbers up a point or so with it.

What? How is that even possible? The left is uniformly calling Obama an "idiot," proclaiming him a new Hoover, and labelling this idea "Obama's worst political decision to date." And these are the Democrats talking. Assuming it has been Democrats that have been keeping Obama's numbers as high as they are (which isn't that high), how is ticking off your base going to raise Obama's favorability? Obama has found it damn near impossible to keep a campaign promise to his own supporters for a year now. Given that track record, why would conservatives take him at his word?

They wouldn't. Neither would anyone else.

If this is reportedly in a straight forward manner by the press I would expect Obama's numbers to drop as a direct result.

But, what if they don't drop? What if, like Silver predicted, Obama polls better? What does that say about the ability of the Leftocrats to claim they represent the largest part of the electorate in any way, shape or form?