“Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”

In that one sentence political satirist (and politically right-leaning) P.J. O’Rourke succinctly defined the motivations and consequently the lack of effectiveness of the Republican Party to govern or even participate in the various processes of government. In fact Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of the Conservative movement, once famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”