http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/04/1368444/-Republicans-surprised-by-their-own-dysfunction
It was completely predictable that Republicans would take control of both Houses of Congress and immediately start overstepping what they could actually do. Predictable—but somehow the resulting problems have come as a surprise to the Republicans themselves. (To be fair, I'm not sure anyone thought they'd be this spectacularly messed up by the beginning of March of their first year in power. But still.)
The results are entertaining. Indiana Sen. Dan Coats isn't even sure he'll run for re-election:
“I thought we were off to a good start with Keystone, but now we’ve hit a wall, so I’m trying to weigh where we are going for the next 18 months or so,” Coats said. He added: “We have been at this for two months now, and we are already hung up in terms of not being able to govern.”
is he saying because keystone was a no brainer to be vetoed he wonders what he'll do the next 18 months, how about pass some bills that don't screw American taxpaying citizens.
Senators are pointing fingers at the House. North Carolina's Richard Burr, for instance:
... asserted that Boehner “just might not be able to do it with all Republicans.”
“And that’s something that Republicans need to decide: whether they want to marginalize themselves in that fashion,” Burr said. “The reality is we have to govern. And we have to get legislation to the president’s desk — if, in fact, that we want to prove we can govern. Just to kill things in Congress, we’re pretty good at that.”
And, of course, members of the House are pointing fingers at the Senate:
“I’d hate to be a U.S. senator and go home and defend my actions,” [Rep. Paul] Gosar said. “We just started ramping up this fight against our senators, making sure they have an obligation to do their constitutional duty and debate this and not hide behind Robert’s Rules of Order.”
Note that, if you listen to House Republicans, the Senate's constitutional duty is basically signing off on whatever the House does. Then again, if you listen to them, the president doesn't even exist as a part of the legislative process; he's just someone to point fingers at, with no legitimate role in, say, signing bills into law.how many months or years more are they going to note the obvious than saying "if we want to prove we can govern", well they have proved that they can't they got what they wished for now they are like a school of fish and somebody throws a rock in the water and the all scatter in every direction as if confused well there's no doubt republicans are confused they are even having trouble inflicting their usually planned pain on us, are they just too high on the power that they just can't handle the truth they are not qualified.
