If I've said it once this political season, I've said it a dozen times: Democrats are not the divided party--it is Republicans who are profoundly divided by contrary goals and mixed loyalties. This morning John McCain marched out onto his campaign platform and claimed credit for passing a compromise bipartisan economic rescue bill. Minutes later, House Republicans defeated McCain's bill, cutting him off at the knees and humiliating him in front of the American electorate just weeks before the election.
Even now, Virginia's Republican blogosphere doesn't seem to understand. They are crowing about this development. In fact, McCain may have just utterly lost the contest for the presidency as the result of a wound that was partly self-inflicted and, seemingly, partly the result of a decision by conservative Republicans in the House to jettison McCain.