EU: No Consensus on Letting Bulgaria, Romania into Schengen

Do you blame these countries.

Hell yeah girl, me and everybody else blame precisely those 3 countries. Unless you think your mama should be the guilty one instead! But on a more serious note, they are clearly using a double standard and do not keep the agreements made and the established requirements for the rest of Eu countries which were already fulfilled by BG and RO long time ago. It gives a bad example and shows how rules are to be respected for some, but not for everyone. This precisely is the definition of corruption.
The true reason is a populistic cheating and skating in order to gain more votes by praying on the nationalistically oriented population and fooling them into thinking Schengen Zone matters more, or remedies the lifting of all restrictions for the 2 countries this coming 1st of january 2014. All the arguments about corruption are pointless because first they were never part of the Schengen requirements and second it suffice to just look around with a widely open eye to realize corruption is spread ALLOVER the world. The richer the country the bigger the corruption and more hidden it is from the sight of the people. It has existed since the creation of the state as an institution and is here to stay. Only a complete idiot would suggest no crime and corruption in Germany, or Netherlands, or Finland. And how do you measure it, by general perception maybe? The fact that you don't see it does not mean it ain't existing. Aside of those 3 "puritan" countries corruption and crime are not even masked by make-up, but are freely visible.
Keep believing all the crap served by your governments, they want you to, every bit of it! An innocently stupid sheep that is.

I don't understand the fuss - is it really that difficult for people with nothing to hide to show a passport at a border?

I have to, as the UK isn't part of schengen, and i don't feel it's a problem?