I was going to stay out of the fray today.
I stepped in to back Steve's information up. That was it.
But if you insist on a comment on the article:
It was another long screed (in fine print on my screen) on how awful those Republicans are, and how Obama can't take us into the Kingdom with all this damn political opposition. What else is new.
And then there's the lie about Democrats never, ever behaving like this.
I noted this in the article:
I remember being shocked when some congressional Democrats appeared to be rooting for the surge in troops in Iraq to fail—which would mean more casualties among Americans and Iraqis, but a huge embarrassment for Bush, and vindication of their skepticism. But of course they did not try to sabotage the surge by disrupting funding or interfering in the negotiations in Iraq with competing Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish power centers. To do so would have been close to treasonous.
"Treasonous?" Really. I remember the Feingold-Reid bill from 2007, designed to cut the funding ("defund" if you will) for the ongoing war in Iraq and prevent the surge. It's barely possible Ornstein honestly forgot it. Or maybe he just assumed his audience would have and decided to push a lie.
Anyway, Obama sure as hell should remember it.
The rest of my posts were just pointing out that yes, Democrats are perfectly willing to take us to the brink for their own particular legislative goals, in this case reversing the sequester law.
I'd stop now if I were you.