Given What They Would Do If They Could, Here's Two Cheers for the New Republican Do-Nothing Congress

With Republicans in control of the House and Republicans obstructing the Senate as monolithically as possible,

the 112th Congress is on pace to be one of the least productive in recent memory [coming on the heels of one of the most productive in history, when the House was under Democratic control and Democrats had just enough votes should they bow sufficiently to the most conservative Democrats in the caucus to overcome the neverending Republican filibuster] -- as measured by votes taken, bills made into laws, nominees approved. By most of those metrics, this crowd is underperforming even the 'do-nothing Congress' of 1948, as Harry Truman dubbed it. -- PolitcalWire