I agree with you to a point. The Majority must pass bills and send them to the Senate and let the majority in the Senate take the blame for being obstructionist. Make it a matter of record. When, at times, the Senate passes the bills, the big O must be the one on record as the obstructionist. Granted that the MSM will fall over themselves blaming the 'Pubs.
It is the economy and the spending and the tone deafness of Washington DC that caused the great turnover election. The Repubs must stay the course and, yes, they must use precious political capital to define themselves from Democrats and remind the Dems of why they were sent there.
Also, they must perform oversight in the meantime, starting with the damn czars. I speculate that there are some stunning things to be found.
BTW, Iran will get the bomb. The Repubs need to blame Obama for it - are you safer today then you were four years ago?
Other than from us who sent them they don't have any other political capital. Maybe I am overlooking something.
I want them to fight like determined warriors against all that has been going on in Washington. Issa says he will be doing a lot of investigations. I say the more the better.
My big disappointment with Bush was his failure to investigate anything with such a target rich environment. He simply took the criticism and ignored what went before him. In his effort to set a new tone he was amazingly naive about the nature of the enemy - the Democrats, media, and George Soros' organizations. He could have done a lot of forestall much of what happened but he didn't. Oh well.