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" Now it’s ‘What have you done while you were there?’"
This gives the GOP the advantage since their stated goal is simply to say no to everything and collapse government wherever and whenever possible. The fact that in the long run this is very damaging to survival of humans as a species, to the world and US economy, or to individual taxpayers and voters is immaterial to them, so long as they can grab the gold ring.
The nation’s 50 state governors have the power to call their legislatures into special session to deal with issues deemed too important to wait through the summer recess. Why can’t the president call Congress into a special August session to deal with the highway funding crisis? hundreds of thousands of road-construction jobs – not to mention our nation’s crumbling highway infrastructure – is at stake.