Today, Speaker Boehner said that U.S. senators should "get off their ass" and resolve the catastrophically pending sequester, which most of Boehner's members voted for, and then Majority Leader Eric Cantor whined something so typically repugnant that no one listened, and then Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy demanded of the president that "It is time for leadership," which the president most recently displayed in producing a draft for immigration reform, for which he got handed supreme Republican indignation and was told to never ever to do that again, and now it's reported that the Senate indeed "plans to vote on two competing measures to replace or modify the sequester, but neither is expected to achieve the 60-vote threshold needed to advance"--that being the Republican custom of blocking everything on which the GOP urges progress--and so the president is wandering around Virginia, joined by at least one other House Republican, Scott Rigell, who wants his own party's leaders to fucking do something, which, in the end, so to speak, will produce nothing more than Speaker John Boehner telling the Senate to get off its ass.
And there you have it, one day in the life of American governance.