Even the WSJ is starting to realize what's going on.

Sen. DeMint (R-SC) was quoted as saying yesterday: "I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 who don't have a set of beliefs."

WSJ response: "We believe in all those things, but 30 Senate votes merely gets you the same fate as the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, without the glory" .

Actually, anybody who supports Obama should fervently hope for the triumph of DeMint's view in the Republican party.   Let DeMint purge all but the true believers. Obama will take all the rest. And we'll see whose program is passed.