I was going to add that as my second sentence, but decided to keep it short and sweet. It seems to me that Democrats are desperately trying to show that it still works while the other party is coming up with creative ways to show that it doesn't.
> the other party is coming up with creative ways to show that it doesn't.
Chief among them, making it so that it doesn't. In a way, just a variation of their age-old way of justifying their "Governement is the problem, it never works!" stance by fucking up government whenever they're in power.