Please explain the road map to getting anything done in the Senate, even with McConnell in charge? He has proven that he will cave to anything the Democrats oppose. He has emboldened the Democrats to stand in opposition to any issue that doesn’t favor them. McConnell isn’t losing to Obama, he is losing to the media, and the media isn’t going to go away just because we elect a Republican President. I am open to reconsideration, please explain how McConnell gets even a single significant issue to the President’s desk? Personally I think the only thing we can expect is more excuses, while they pass laws that make it more difficult to remove them from power.
I don't like McConnell, but Senators are notoriously independent and difficult to lead. It's like herding cats. And the reality is that McConnell simply does not have enough Senators who are sufficiently conservative to force through a conservative agenda. Too many RINOs, but getting rid of RINOs that are from liberal States is not the answer because the only thing that will ever replace them is a more liberal Democrat.
So far, the Senate appears to be holding firm on the Supreme Court nomination. The Senate also has prevented substantive legislative amendments to the ACA, refused to pass his immigration legislation, and refused to pass his environmental stuff. A Democratic Senate majority would confirm that nominee and pass all that legislation.
Obama has done some workarounds with executive orders, but those are far easier to reverse than legislation, and some of those executive orders have been stricken down by the courts.
The bottom line is that as much as we might wish the Senate had been more confrontational, anyone who thinks they were no better than a Democrat-majority Senate would have been is simply ignorant.