Reid Pulls Trillion-Dollar Christmas Tree

Excellent news: Harry Reid has given up on ramming his $1.3 trillion spending extravaganza through the last days of a lame-duck Senate:

Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.
GOP leader Mitch McConnell threw his weight against the bill in recent days, saying it was in his words “unbelievable” that Democrats would try to muscle through in just a few days legislation that usually takes months to debate.
Reid said he would work with McConnell to produce a short-term funding bill to keep the government running into early next year.

Good work, Republicans.
UPDATE: Michael Ramirez drew this cartoon before Reid pulled the plug tonight, but it was prophetic; click to enlarge:
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