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“The American people have every right to be angry [and] disappointed by the performance of the Congress.
“Of course, the American people have also elected people with hard stances, so that to some degree the American people are realizing the results of their votes.
“If elections have consequences — which I think they do — some of those consequences are getting what you vote for.
“In this case, many people voted for people who thought compromise was not something that they ought to participate in.”
Firm grasp of the obvious there, Steny. We voted to stop you and prefer things this way to the alternative.
But there was plenty of gridlock before we stopped you, too. When Democrats ruled the roost in 2010, unactioned bills in the Democrat-controlled Senate sent to it by the Democrat-controlled House went from 290 at the beginning of 2010 to 420 a month before the November elections.
For that kind of impotence there is no pill.
