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[whell]

...but in this case he's spot-on:

https://townhall.com/columnists/patb...gress-n2378527

If democracy, as Freedom House contends, is in global retreat, one reason may be that, in our new age, legislatures, split into hostile blocs checkmating one another, cannot act with the dispatch impatient peoples now demand of their rulers.

In the days of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, Congress was a rival to even strong presidents. Those days are long gone.

The current GOP congress is the most dysfunctional group in recent memory, and maybe ever. The GOP, as I've said before when they were a minority party, has difficulty agreeing on much of anything. Now that they're in the majority, that factionalism and lack of a rudder are more obvious than ever.

I'm usually in favor of some level of legislative paralysis because I think as a country we're already way over-regulated and legislated. However, there are some key and pressing issues which require Congressional action. McConnell and Ryan have not been able to show that they can deliver within the majority anything that looks like a workable agenda, they appear to have no spine, and many in Congress appear unwilling to expend any political capital, even to move forward legislation that they campaigned on.

At least the Dems know what to do when they get their hands on the levers of power, though I typically don't agree with what they do when they execute. However, the other issue here is that if Trump thinks sharing those levers with the Dems are going to earn him any brownie points with the media or the left (and I don't know if that's part of his motivation), he's sadly mistaken.