Republicans seem to believe that the success they have had in their petulant and obstinate efforts at obstruction is translated to some mindless notion of more generic “success,” and will be viewed by the public in that way. Furthermore, they hope that their ability to obstruct everything will be viewed as generic “failure” on the part of the Obama administration, and that this will translate to Republican success at the polls in November and two years down the road.
Their “success” in this regard, however,...
