The Lightbulb Moment

Better late than never:

At the same time, Democrats say the apparently unbridgeable health care divide has convinced them that Republicans are dedicated solely to blocking legislative proposals for political purposes. Several said they now realized that they would have to rely strictly on their own caucus to advance such defining issues as climate change in 2010.

Hopefully this lightbulb moment means that in the coming months, Democrats will skip pointless efforts at "bipartisanship" and just use their own damn mop.