"The House and Senate have achieved this feat of unlikability ... by refusing to do anything while complaining loudly that government never gets anything done." And McConnell has the nerve to boast about it!

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Seth Meyers Explains How Republicans in Congress Have 'Paralyzed the Government'
Republican obstructionism is out of control—and largely getting a pass during the 2016 election. Why?
By Jack Holmes, May 25, 2016



With the 2016 campaign now tumbling into the abyss in excruciatingly slow motion, it's easy to lose track of pretty much everything else in politics. No one's enjoying this apocalyptic distraction more than Senate Majority Leader and world's most influential tortoise Mitch McConnell, who has subsisted on a steady diet of balls-out obstructionism for years. Luckily, Seth Meyers popped up last night to go where no "traditional news program" would dare: Congress.

Congress, you see, is awful. 

Meyers cites its 14 percent approval rating in a recent poll, which is actually an uptick from the 11 and 9 percents of days gone by. The House and Senate have achieved this feat of unlikability—which Meyers ranks below "the kid who reminds the teacher they forgot to assign homework"—by refusing to do anything while complaining loudly that government never gets anything done.

The Senate has famously refused to grant a hearing to President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. (They may well just go on forever at this rate.) The House narrowly rejected an anti-discrimination bill that would have protected LGBT employees of government contractors, and the initial coverage of that stunt didn't even do it justice. (It turns out it was even scummier than advertised.) And now they refuse to adequately fund efforts to combat the Zika virus, maybe so we can have an Ebola-style pre-election freakout.

Meyers put it well:

"Republicans have essentially paralyzed the government, they can't even perform basic constitutional functions or respond to public health emergencies, and maybe the worst is that Republican obstruction has become completely normalized. No one even questions it anymore."
But don't worry!

Here's McConnell with some of his most vaunted colleagues, boasting about how much his Senate has accomplished and ruining Wes Anderson for everyone in the process:


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