GOP governance marches on.
House Republicans are in their umpteenth revolt; Boehner's speakership could be in jeopardy; Senate Republicans are behaving like Lincoln's dazed, disoriented duck; a partial government shutdown looms; the conservative sanctity of national security is being trashed for the purity of extremist politics; and McConnell has been rather comically reduced to observing, "I don’t know what’s not to like about" his latest DHS funding plan that is shattering his party.
One is tempted to say such Republican "governance" is akin to that of a banana republic, but that would be an insult to those who are merely bananas. These guys, to be sure, are paid-up passengers on the GOP clown barge, but it's their pathological, anti-Obama malice that drives them. All their deliberations (to be charitable) are fiercely reductive: How can we screw the president? That's the test of each bill, and always the full measure of these bomb-throwers.
It looks as though the GOP's permanent anarchy will again be subsumed by a temporary fix, in the form of — what else? — another continuing resolution. "House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions said he did not support approving McConnell’s plan. Instead, Sessions said, Congress should pass a temporary extension of funding for up to six weeks and convene a House-Senate conference to try to hammer out the differences between the two chambers."
This is, of course, merely a Walkeresque punt. At the risk of being stupendously tautological: The governing party is in its state of anarchy because it can't possibly govern. Governing requires compromise, and compromise is antithetical to any political faction driven solely by malice. Hurling that faction into a conference den with a majority leader who absently ponders "I don't know what's not to like" about reasonableness is but lighting another fuse, and chaotically detonating another bomb.
Even the incompetent commies had their Five-Year plans. The GOP? Governance and national security via six-week CRs. That's what the world's beacon of democracy has come to. And anyone who was paying attention foresaw it, well before last November.