Doubts About the Dems: Can They Govern?

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Doubts About the Dems: Can They Govern?: "The so-called full-time legislature departed for their annual, monthlong, paid vacation with its Democratic leaders crowing about its achievements. But their mediocre midterm record, with all of their political hyperventilating aside, shows they accomplished little and left behind a pile of pork-filled appropriations bills, a mountain of unfinished work on problems ranging from energy to health care and a poisonous political atmosphere. 'The president has signed virtually nothing because virtually nothing has gotten to his desk,' remarked Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, the second-ranking House Republican."