Obama and the Left are overplaying their hand, with their rationale being, "I won, twice."
Obama knows, of course, that these ranchers didn't vote for him and are not in his base, and that reason alone prompts his hard line against them.
However, when cowboy blood is spilled, the nonblue west (especially) will become galvanized against the Chicago thugs even more, and Bundy's fight will have then been the spark for a much wider front in an even larger war against federal overreach and incompetence.
The states need to wake up and reassert their rightful constitutional authority over the federal government. Bundy might just be the catalyst for the reawakening of state power.
Revolts aren’t won by votes!