“I’m not sure I’ll like what Barry comes up with, but anything will be better that what’s happening today, which is nothing.”
I’m not so sure about that. If you house is on fire, you don’t go throwing gasoline on it just to do something, do you? That appears to be the solution Congress and the Executive Branch are heading toward — do ANYTHING — but just do SOMETHING. Not the best answer, IMHO.
If you don't do something and the perception becomes that you don't do anything, you end up losing the Presidency and both houses of Congress in two years. We had our chance to do something and we didn't. House leadership and the executive branch turned a tin ear towards an ever increasing problem.
Now, the opposition will run roughshod over the the Republican membership, and there's really nothing they can do about it.