Off topic excerpt from a David French article in National Review:
“It’s also time to revisit the alleged “failure” of the Republicans in Congress—the failure that triggered so much anger against the GOP establishment. But for congressional Republicans’ stubborn resistance, Obama would enjoy the kind of legacy that would be truly hard to undo. A cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions would have transformed our economy. The employment nondiscrimination act would have metastasized the culture war, bringing the conflict between gay rights and religious liberty to every nook and cranny of American life. Card-check legislation could have helped revitalized highly partisan Democratic unions. Gun-control legislation would have limited the Second Amendment rights of Americans from coast to coast. None of these things happened, in large part because even the most “squishy” Republican moderates locked arms wit the Tea Party to block Obama’s most ambitious reforms.”
Not to mention the Republicans’ stand against Obama’s nominee for the vacant Supreme Court post.
It appears there was more being accomplished by the Republican Congress than I’d realized, and I’m grateful.
That the Democrats were unable to advance their legislative agenda is not a “victory” for the GOPE. That is the barest minimum level of competency for a party that controls Congress.
Contrast that with the GOP Congress's repeated rubber stamping of Obama spending which has instituted spending for the the Progressive agenda to a level not seen since LBJ was President. That spending is now baked into the Fed Budget and will now be incredibly difficult to dismantle.