Talking heads will chatter, argue, and rant on TV and in the houses of Congress but that's all they will do. Weeks and months will go by in which the crowning achievement of Congress may be little more than perhaps passing a bill to declare National Eat Your Spinach Week (sponsored, of course, by the Spinach Growers of America).
The Grammar Curmudgeon
There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.
A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'
We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.
In a unity government, it's very difficult to move anything at all.
I'm not truly convinced solutions are coming out of Washington.
I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.
