Six of one, half a dozen of the other: both bad

Harold Meyerson writes in today's Washington Post:

To date, the Republicans' strategy, and not just on the war, has been to thwart the Democrats at every turn and to use the Senate's 60-vote supermajority requirement both to create a "do-nothing" Congress against which they can run and to spare their president from having to veto popular legislation. (Why they care about sparing Bush -- he will never face voters again; they will -- plunges us into the murk of abnormal psychology.)

Hmmmm. Yes.

Unless of course they're really against the legislation themselves.