They don't get elected to let their personal likes and dislikes determine their votes.
I sure as hell would blame them. The fact that their whittle feewings got hurt doesn't excuse them not doing their damn jobs.
Looks to me that they couldn't win anyway - You should consider that classic Clintonian 'triangulation' was going on. Intentional manipulation to crap out the GOP and render it useless with blame, in order to move left. We're already being told that more 'bipartisanship' is on the way.
Right down the line with what many of us predicted.