Okay, I'm fed up with the ridiculous media spin being put on the latest Congressional faceoff with the White House.

I'm reading everywhere that the Democratic Congress is weak, ineffective and spineless, mostly from within the Democratic Party.  I'm not going to repeat some of the things I've heard from the Republican Party because it seems, as of late, Republicans have wholly embraced the notion that Democrats are not Americans but instead are communist pigs who need to either be deported or killed...or both.

But people need to see this for what it is.

Congress has a slim Democratic majority.  It's not even enough to override a filibuster in the Senate, let alone override a veto in both houses.  So what does this mean?

This means that as long as the Republicans stick together and the White House continues threatening vetoes, there is little that can be done by the Democrats other than continue to send the same bills to Bush's desk, regardless of veto threats.  This is what I think should happen, and it's what I would think should happen if the roles were reversed and we had a Democratic president.  It's just what should be done if a party believes in a cause, period.

Still, the media is spinning this showdown as if there is something that the Democrats could do but they just aren't doing it because they are weak and spineless.  Few journalists acknowledge the parliamentary stonewalling that the Republicans are embracing and furthermore, few acknowledge that the President has so far embraced the most hardline, partisan strategy we've seen in decades.

At every turn the Republicans and the President refuse to compromise and refuse to back down, even though the 2006 election was a clear mandate to the White House to change its ways.  But instead Bush refuses to change anything and has instead become childish and crabby over the fact that he lost his majority in Congress and now he's taking it out on the American people by acting as he usually does - like a child who isn't getting his way.

I can almost see Bush sitting behind his desk, throwing a temper tantrum to Cheney because the stupidface Democrats keep sending him mean bills that don't include enough candy for him.

If the media has a liberal bias, I'd sure love to see it right about now.  Because what we're seeing is the Democratic Party getting the blame for not 100% reversing the first six years of the conservative catastrophe that has been the Bush presidency within the first year of their majority in Congress.

Either journalists are playing dumb to the Republican stonewall strategy or the mythical liberal media bias is exactly that - a dream.