Describing the Republicans as “basically Maytag repairmen” because nothing gets done is a very bad analogy. The Maytag repairmen did nothing because the Maytags ran flawlessly with no need for repairs. The government is does not run flawlessly with no need for repairs.
The government is more like repairmen who gum up the works so that they can make more money ‘fixing’ the machine so that it will break down again.