Our Take
While it would be too easy to write that Members of Congress fled town this week like rats off a sinking ship, the reality is that the dysfunction and gridlock of Washington only continues to grow and it is highly likely that all 535 members of Congress and the Senate were incredibly grateful to head out of our Nation’s capital. Democrats may enjoy the schadenfreude of watching their Republican colleagues suffer as they try grapple within their own caucus and the President on how to move a health care reform package, and Republicans must be frustrated by their inability to move the agenda they campaigned on – and which gave them control of all three branches of government.