McCain doesn’t get it. The Dems don’t need Republican “cooperation.” In their eyes, they now rule the world and can do whatever the he!! they want.
And after all this time, he still hasn’t figured out that “cooperation” in the Democrats’ view, means “capitulation.” All that “cooperation” has produced the mess we have now.
As long as the GOP block in the Senate stays united, the 'rats can't do anything. Unfortunately, it only takes one defection to overcome that, and there are too many with a history of defecting (including McCain himself).
If he's ticked off enough to keep Graham, Snowe, Collins, Brown, and the like in line for the next eight months, though, he'll have done his country one last great service.
Next go-around IF the GOP ever regains power, they need to throw out any naive notions of civility. The Dims play it as a blood sport.
Actually, they do. With Brown on board the GOP can stop everything. He was too late for health care since he won after the Senate already passed the bill. If he had won in say November this wouldn’t have happened. So, McCain is right that the GOP can stop cap and trade amd immigration and make sure nothign else of consequence passes. It was just too late on the health care issue.