Over at Daily Dish the author points to column about republicans. He doesn't quote the whole paragraph, but I've put it here. The original column can be found here.

In fact, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, has been up front about his party's stance in a chamber in which Republicans hold only 178 of the 435 seats. "I have been trying to get my Republican colleagues to understand that we are not in the legislative business," he said at a recent lunch with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "We will spend more time communicating [with the American people], because that is what we can do." Boehner has often said since the election that he prefers to cooperate with Obama but that Democrats need to open their arms.

This to me is the biggest problem most people have with republicans today, and why they are failing miserably. We pay these people to legislate, not politic. Right now some of them feel they should legislate to politic, meaning they see the legislative process not as their job, but as the means to the end, which is to acquire and stay in power.