donheff
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Nonsense. In a very real way, the Republicans were responsible for the "Corn Husker Provision," "the Louisiana Purchase," etc. They filibustered everything the Dems tried to do. DeMint called it in early summer -- just say no and force a Warterloo on Obama. The result was that the worst of the dems (Nelson) took advantage of the roadbloacks to wrangle reprehensible personal benefits into the bill.Please don't be so patronizing. The Dems had a super-majority. The R's could do nothing. The reason nothing passed earlier was they could not get enough support from the within that super-majority.
-ERD50
Loosing the super majority was the best thing that could happen to the Dems. Then they could dump the blue dogs that ruined the Senate effort and jettison the junk they appended to the bill.