His abrasiveness & inarticulate style is no excuse for their refusal to cooperate. In fact its beginning to look more like thats just an excuse to keep from doing what they clearly do not want to do.
If what they don't want to do is legislate---by which I mean not just making law but repealing law (and there is
only too much law now on the books that
ought to be repealed, law that does not protect our rights but
merely metastasises government as a public nuisance)---then, no, they ought not to be excused from doing
their job.
But if what they don't want to do is be a mere rubber stamp for a president (regardless of whom the president
is, whether he is the essence of decorum or the personification of philistinism), then,
yes, yes, a thousand times
yes they
ought to be excused from it. Neither the Senate nor the House were designed to be a presidential
rubber stamp, any more than the president was granted any legitimate constitutional mandate to be the supreme
lawmaker of the land.
McConnell would be wise to remind his colleagues and the president alike that there are reasons why the Constitu-
tion addressed the legislative branch first, and that according to the Constitution just because the president says
"sh@t!" neither the Senate nor the House are forbidden to ask anything other than, "Which pot?" But with this
president, we may first be required to school him in the separation of powers if not the Supreme Law of the Land
itself, as we may be required concurrently to school Congress in the consequences of assorted portions of their
responsibilities that they and predecessor Congresses have handed to the executive branch, on a silver platter
and otherwise.