The Times: The GOP Goose-Steps, it's the Dems' Fault

Why Big Media journalism is loved by fewer and fewer.

A beautiful, objective headline contradicted by the first paragraph:

Effort to Shift Course in Iraq Fails in Senate

A proposal that Democrats put forward as their best chance of changing the course of the Iraq war died on the Senate floor on Wednesday, as Republicans stood firmly with President Bush.

In other words, the Dems are failures because the Republicans refused to break ranks.

The meme is that (razor-thin) Dem majority in Congress is a failure of leadership.

Well, a razor-thin majority isn't ever going to find enough of these GOP goose-steppers to show initiative and leadership and principle -- and, you know, that should be a reflection on the GOP, not the Dems.

And it should be noted, that for this once, the Dems stood united....