As for rejecting compromise of any sort, that is certainly not limited to republicans. Reid, Pelosi, and Obama have been at least as unwilling to make genuine compromise with republicans as republicans have with them.

IMO that is a good thing. Right now, both parties' ideas are so bad that I don't want anybody compromising with either one to get anything done. Total gridlock is superior to any idea that has come out of either party since Clinton and Newt compromised on welfare reform and sorta balancing the budget.