HOW "STANDING ATHWART HISTORY AND SAYING 'NO'" IS ROUNDLY ABUSED AND MISUNDERSTOOD
Legislation is not job one. Never has been. Political power used to facilitate easy private wealth accumulation? That's closer.
It's almost irresponsible (!) to even think that there is a time for governing and a time for campaigning, a dichotomy that sounded tinny on the modern ear, when President Obama alluded to that formulation at yesterday's press conference.