Thank you. It is not clear why some want to lay this all on Reid's lap. We know Reid and 95% of the democrats don't have the country's best interest at heart - that isn't news. The democrats are the devil we know.
What should be disturbing is that a significant faction of the GOP, including the leadership, approached the democrats and worked with them to push us toward national suicide.
Even when the democrats had given up on the scheme, the republican leadership (spearheaded by Bush) put enough pressure on REPUBLICAN hold outs to bring it back to life.
At the end of Limbaugh's show today, he discussed something that Lindsey Graham said, that it was his job to work with the Democrat majority to get things done. Limbaugh disagreed, saying that it was Graham's job to defend his principles, and oppose the Democrats when they are in conflict.
If Repulbicans like Graham were to be asked if Democrats saw their job to be working with Republicans while the GOP ruled the Senate, what would these people say? They'd say things like, "well, that was them and we're different," or "we're not going to stoop to their level," or some excuse or another to explain away Democrat obstuctionist behavior. Yet over and over and over, the Republicans settle into the "go-along to get along" mode of operation.
They led the Senate like they were still in the minority, and now that they are in the minority they just want to get along.
-PJ