Moderates’ Hope for Compromise on Iraq Fading as Reid Takes Hard Line
Reid bad, won't compromise. Of course what really has happened is that the Democrats, including Reid, wanted to find some sort of compromise bill to get "moderate Republicans" on board, but then they realized that moderate Republicans won't actually get on board with anything that could actually achieve anything in Iraq, and even if they did they don't exist in sufficient numbers (60 total or 67 depending on how you want to look at it) for an actual compromise to pass.