The Hill News

Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Ala.) once said that the aisle down the middle of the Senate chamber was becoming a deep crevasse. In the 112th Congress, it may resemble the Grand Canyon.

It is time for Congress to reverse this trend. The lesson Republicans must learn from the last decade of elections is that the American people have diminishing patience with incumbents and the party in power. Americans care more about results than divisive political gamesmanship. Washington’s tired rhetoric and near obsession with messaging “process” only fuels disillusionment and apathy among the People. Filibusters, cloture, filling the tree, trying to pass something controversial by Unanimous Consent â€" it is all jargon for the political jockeying that is no longer a means to an end. It is the end.

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