[The Urban Sombrero]

Not at all. The United States can well function without one of nine SC Justices for less than a year. Not so where the US Congress is concerned, especially for four. Reid is no patriot

Both parties play games, treat the country like their own private chess game, then scream that the other is lower than a frog's arse for doing exactly what it did when in the majority/minority. I really hate to think our Reps and Senators are not people who love this country, but having a lot of power and access to power and money, and then, of course, wanting to keep that power and access...pretty easy to get lost somewhere along the way. And I think our political class is lost, and the citizenry is pretty lost, and when the blind lead the blind, well, there's a lot of muck and filth in a ditch.