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Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

There are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.