The Democrats are having trouble doing the right things, but the Republicans screwed up the country doing precisely the WRONG things.
The solution to the AMT would be to index it to the cost of living, of course, but the Republicans want to abolish it forever, with no revenues to replace it with.
The only thing anyone could do was to postpone it, which was what they eventually did.
They should refuse to spend one more dime on Iraq. That is the main thing to fault them with.