Midknight Review -- new and revised: Just to be clear: Reid has been running this country, legislatively speaking, since the mid-term elections of 2010 threw down Nancy Pelosi and her dictatorial "style" as the Speaker in the House.

<<< Yes, this is a real picture. It was taken several years ago, but gives us a picture of Reid and what he thinks of the "opposition." Back at ya, bub.

You need to know who is working on the current impasse and who is not: The Democrat Senate under Harry Reid has not allowed a single floor vote on the issues at hand for a full week while the House has had 26 different votes dealing with the same financial crisis.

House Republican leadership has backed off of their original demand to fully repeal ObamaCare, but are standing firm on the need to do something about the many documented failures of this monstrous piece of scam legislation. In deed, they are willing to compromise and have done so.

The Reid controlled Democrats, on the other hand, are saying this: Either give us 100% of our demands are we are going to take our ball and go home.

And to think, we all get to do this over again, just six weeks from now. That’s right, all this angst is for a bill that will expire in six stinking weeks. Might as well have the fight now, no? I mean, what is the point of waiting if the Dems are going to pull the same “my way or the highway” nonsense, in a month and a half?

Question: If 40% of the public blames Obama and his Socialist Progressive buds, but only 17% blame the teaparty folks (a Gullop survey), how long will it take for Democrats to cave enough to move forward? Understand this, you cannot name a single political victory for the Obama Democrats since the 2012 elections. I expect this time to be another defeat for the Dems. Time will tell.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."