Arguably, Solidity makes it so hard to write secure contracts that it is negligent. If the Ethereum team decides to take responsibility for The DAO, I hope they fix Solidity once and for all, not just bail out this one contract.
So it's not a consensus based on DAO shares or ETH holdings, which represent the broader community, but rather based on GPU power, representing a small number of groups?
Note that the Ethereum mining community is considerably more decentralized than e.g. Bitcoin.
If the "leadership" decides to go this way as it appears they do, the community will likely follow them as they have done in the past.
This is a big test for Ethereum. The DAO holders were warned clearly about these kind of issues before hand, yet some sort of collective mania made very smart people go deaf.
