From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
No one likes the job Congress is doing.
What are they unhappy with? Is it the Democratic House that seems most concerned with investigating Trump, or the Republican Senate which won’t even vote on the bills sent to it by the House?
I could be wrong, but I think it’s the Senate. The House has passed over a hundred bills, but the Senate has not even voted on any of them. McConnell is determined that bills passed by the House will not get a debate or vote.
This is rather ridiculous. He could bring the bills up for debate, let his GOP majority amend them, and then pass them. The House and Senate could them come to a compromise that both could pass. In other words, they could compromise. But compromise seems to be a dirty word in the current Congress, even though it would benefit the nation.
The public doesn’t like the refusal to compromise. Poll after poll has shown they want the parties to compromise, and they are right.