As Josh has  reported, the Big Three bridge loan is dead.  The Republicans are getting what they want: bringing on a full-scale depression AND sticking a final knife in the guts of the labor movement, twisting it, and breaking off the hilt.

The Southern Republican Senators who torpedoed the deal will take much richly-deserved blame, but we also can't forget who let this happen:

Harry Reid.

I can't IMAGINE anything like this happening under Lott or Frist  -- meaning, I can't imagine Lott or Frist allowing something this important to go "against" them.  Remember the "nuclear option" in the 109th Congress?  Reid just let the Republicans set off an atom bomb in the Midwest, giving it his trademark Stern Rebuke, and doing nothing (another trademark).

Par for the course.  What a useless piece of human waste.

Republicans routinely go nuclear.  Democrats routinely let them.

What a wonderful party I belong to.