Joe Shoemaker, a spokesman for Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said that by putting Mr. Bradbury’s name forward again as a nominee, “the president has thumbed his nose at Congress and chosen an individual who has been involved in authorizing some of the most controversial policies of this administration.”

So over on the Democrats side of the aisle we have people saying they would like to work together with the Republicans to get things done. Compromise, that old story that doesn't always get good things done, but is designed to get passable results. From the other side, we get things like this.

It's time for the Democrats to wake up. The Republicans have already used cloture more times to kill things than any other senate in history, and we're just barely into the second year of the congress, and the White House keeps sending out crap like this. They have no interest in working with anyone. As far as anyone with eyes can see, their position is their way or the highway, and to hell with the nation.