Right, Trent, Senate disfunction would be denying unanimous consents, thereby forcing senators to put their names to things. It would be eliminating proxy voting in committee. And these are just two examples that change the senate from being “a nice place to work, where everybody gets along and nobody’s name has to be put to any measure” into a legislative body where legislation is debated and passed or rejected.
I would like this to go one step further: Senate dysfunction is a good thing. The fewer laws and bills passed the better.
There are too many in the books already and probably 90 percent of them are laws that eat away at our freedom and liberty. The full time Congress tries to justify their existence, and enhance their power, by passing laws that trash our Constitution at every turn.