We don’t send them there to get along.
No, but we better not play their game, either. Forget the Senate, we need to concentrate on the House. For example, to highlight this, for the past two years, Speaker Boehner should have gone in front of the press EVERY DAY, and said the following:
“The House has done the job that the American people sent us here to do by passing a budget. I invite Senator Reid to do his job and also pass a budget. Today is day ____ that he has failed to do his job.” Then turn around and WALK AWAY.
When the budget impasse came up, we would have been much better off. But we didn’t have a long view strategy carried out with iron resolve all along that would have avoided our utter defeat.