You don’t say, David?

Via RCP:

BOB SCHIEFFER, FACE THE NATION: How — why has he had such a hard time connecting with people on Capitol Hill, and not just in one party but in both?

AXELROD: …I wrote in the book about right after the health care, when he was talking to the caucus about the health care bill, Democratic Caucus in the Senate, we went back to the White House, and he is in the car and he says, what are they so afraid of? And I said, well, I think they’re afraid of losing their jobs. And he said, well, what’s the point of being up here for 30 years if you don’t do anything? And I said, look, I think they want to do something but if it’s a choice between that and being up here for 30 years, they would rather be up here for 30 years.

He hasn’t fully related to that. And sometimes there’s an air of moral superiority that creeps in because he feels like we have a responsibility to do big things, why don’t you see it the way I see it?