Tom Carper doesn't seem to think elections should have consequences:
I’ve said all along with Mike Enzi, from Wyoming, we agree on 80% of this stuff, maybe more. And at the end of the day what we need to do is focus on the 80% that we agree on, maybe set aside the 20% that we don’t agree on for some other day. And I hope at the end of the day that’s what we’ll do.
If Carper is being sincere, it's hard to imagine a stupider thing for him to have said. Even if you accept his flawed premise that we should only do things everybody agrees on, the reality is that once you throw the twenty percent overboard, the GOP will decide to disagree with twenty percent of whatever is left over, and we'll be right back where we started.
Sometimes you have to just take "no" for answer and look for another way to get things done. Too bad Carper doesn't seem to get that.