Well, no.

The Washington Post doesn't "get it right" when they write that...

THE DEMOCRATIC-led Congress, more concerned with protecting its political backside than with safeguarding the privacy of American citizens, left town early yesterday after caving in to administration demands that it allow warrantless surveillance of the phone calls and e-mails of American citizens...

What happened was that the intransigent Republican minority, in league with a relative handful of conservative Democrats who broke with the Democratic leadership, continued to bow at the altar of Bushism without regard for the liberties of Americans.

The problem isn't, as the Post implies and too many "progressives" are too eager to echo, with Democratic leadership. It's with the Congress we've given them to lead.

Send more Democrats and better Democrats and any leadership problems will disappear.