Yeah, 282, but remember....they are playing the game they have been taught to play all their lives. They're trying to win the World Series, for gosh sakes! Try telling a baseball team to throw the game and lose the Series...

That's exactly what it's like. It's a game. Both parties are trained to do everything possible to win it when the playoffs come around. That is their reason for being.

I agree that the Democrats would be fools to want to inherit this stupid war...but has that EVER stopped either one of those parties from trying to win the next election? No. And it never will. If they were inheriting the end of the world and the complete and utter destruction of all they hold dear, they'd still be out there trying like hell to win the election.   They don't know what else to do. The game is bigger than they are.

When this war is finally, irrevocably lost...I too would rather see the Republicans take the blame for it. You bet I would.

Still, I don't think I could stomach voting for them.

Hell of a quandary. But I can't vote for them anyway, because I'm Canadian, so it's a decision I'll never have to make.