McConnell and the Republicans are gambling that they can put off dealing with the important issues-you know, the ones on which they took no policy positions during the election season, which is pretty much all of them-blame their lack of substantiative policy-making on the Democrats, and thus have another tidal wave of white anger with which to dethrone our traitorous (Kenyan Muslim) President in 2012. McConnell said it's his top priority, after all. They think inaction plays in their favor-who knows, they may be right, they've filibustered everything the Democrats put forward and blamed us for inaction for the last 2yrs.