Mark Levin has asked the question: What's Obama's end game? He's concluded that Obama's end game is to unilaterally with a 14th Amendment figleaf, raise the debt ceiling himself as urged to by Democrats inside and outside the government.
In 5 years, Congress has done nothing to defend the Constitution. He figures that the GOP Congress will rollover again. He may be right.
If the good guys end up writing history, Reid will be covered with obloquy for surrendering the constitutional prerogatives of the Senate for craven political purposes. Loathsome creature, utterly loathsome.