Sam Stein writes at the Huffington Post:
Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with the brash political attacks Sen. John McCain has launched against Barack Obama in the weeks since the new president took office. No one expected the Arizona Republican to be a legislative ally for this administration. But it was widely assumed that Obama's overtures to McCain in the weeks after the election would dull some of the hard feelings between the two. Now, they are realizing, it has not.
You have to give Stein some credit -- his question during last week's presser was no softball. But this is baloney. In the aftermath of the election, everyone expected McCain to be a legislative ally for this administration. It's pure revisionism to say otherwise now, but this revision allows Democrats to blame McCain's recalcitrance on "hard feelings," as though his objections to the stimulus are driven by some petty, personal resentment. Remember when dissent was patriotic?