Any jackass can kick down the barn....

[kentuck]

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped

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Because of institutional inertia, Republicans have managed to stay somewhat relevant to the political process without actually contributing anything positive -- good policy ideas -- to the the process. But along the way, vacancies in the administration based solely on the GOP's decision to block Barack Obama's appointments mean that courts have less judges than they need and HHS doesn't have a surgeon general in the midst of a global flu pandemic. And if you really want to grind the government down to a halt, you can always deny a quorum to Senate committees trying to address climate change.