Partisan politics has nothing to do with serving the best needs of we the people. It is all about gamesmanship. Why pay the deadbeats?

McConnell vowed to make Obama a one-term prez. He failed.
Current SEnate REFUSED to consent to a replacement Justice on the Supremes. GOP says SCOTUS will remain 8 i f Hillary wins.
Filibusters. Refusing to bring bills to the floor for vote. Investigations up the kazoo about the same thing repeatedly.
Rejecting/objecting to everything and anything