Democrats turn on each other

The Washington Post is running this article,

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of
developing "Stockholm syndrome," showing sympathy to their Republican captors
by caving in on legislation to provide middle-class tax cuts paid for with tax
increases on the super-rich, tying war funding to troop withdrawal timelines,
and mandating renewable energy quotas. If Republicans want to filibuster a bill,
Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the
Republicans to talk it to death.
Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor
to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of
governance.
Democrats in each chamber are now blaming their colleagues in the
other for the mess in which they find themselves. The predicament caused the
majority party yesterday surrender to President Bush on domestic spending levels, drop a cherished
renewable-energy mandate and move toward leaving a raft of high-profile
legislation, from addressing the mortgage crisis to providing middle-class tax
relief, undone or incomplete.

Democrats are apparently having problems making the trasition from throwing to stones to having to lead. The problem is the House Democrats have not realized that Americans do not support their far-left agenda. The Senate is acting like it is supposed to. It is cooling the overly ambitious House. Instead of compromising the House is throwing a fit. That would explain why the approval rating of Congress is now far behind that of the President.

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