The Republicans should have spent 2010 condemning the Dems for passing unlimited quantities of unpopular legislation while not even proposing a budget. With their usual MO, the Republicans uttered not a peep about the Dems’ gaping, glaring, criminal dereliction of duty. Now they’re panicking because they know the shut-down will be blamed on them. If they would be more pro-active, and play hardball once in a blue moon, they wouldn’t be routinely backed into these corners.