I think part of the problem is the idiot Repubs don't understand the rules of Congress

[Salviati]

4. Alas a good portion of all americans, including quite a number here...

.... don't understand the rules of congress.

Just look at all the threads here everyday demanding that the Democrats do things that would require control of both houses of congress, or a way to break the fillibuster, or even a constitutional ammendment.

In the spirit of the season, I am reminded of Dickens:

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

Though it may be by the direction of malevolance, it will be ignorance that will kill this country.