KEEP THE GRIDLOCK GOING! It's worked fantastic so far with Murican voters, why stop?

BBC reports on the conservative National Review's cynical, don't try to govern advice, if you do, voters may figure out you aren't what the election year tsunami of 5 billion dollars of dark money TV ads said you were....do nothing advice for the Republican controlled Congress:

"If Republicans proclaim that they have to govern now that they run Congress, they maximise the incentive for the Democrats to filibuster everything they can - and for President Obama to veto the remainder," they write. "Then the Democrats will explain that the Republicans are too extreme to get anything done."
"Not much progress is possible until we have a better president”

Not only that, they say, attempting to pass legislation will risk opening the divide between the establishment and hard-core conservative wings of their party.....

"The goal of this attitude isn't to advance the nation's interests, even incrementally," writes MSNBC's Steve Benen. "Rather, the argument - reaching levels of public cynicism that are truly awe-inspiring - is that the sole focus of a political party is to do nothing until that party has absolute power over all branches of government."

George Washington University Prof David Karpf says that it will be difficult for Democrats to counter this strategy, however.

"Republicans will continue to make sure nothing gets done in Congress," he writes in the Huffington Post. "Voters will continue to be disgusted, tuning out from politics as a result. And then, tuned out from politics, they'll see less reason to turn out on Election Day, and less value in paying close attention along the way."
If Republicans can avoid big confrontations over things like the debt limit and funding the government, while advancing just enough legislation to make it seem like they're trying, they'll probably get a pass from the public and the media.

"In short, the fundamental gridlock will remain, and Republicans will say that the way to end it once and for all is to keep them in power in Congress but also give them the White House, too," he concludes...

No functioning government until Republicans have complete control. Then they can do what they want. And no one can stop them. Our fate will be sealed, as if this works, they sure as hell aren't going to try and compromise, but will finish their job of bankrupting the nation with deregulation of banking, tax cuts on high incomes and privatizing, handing over to Wall Street, both Social Security and Medicare.