Sure is a lot of blah blah for the author to not understand that Mr McCain wont be back till the end of August, and they simply don't have the 50 votes they would need to even advance legislation to the debate stage, let alone they have no material to advance. . 

The GOP doesn't have the stomach for it, and the Democrats are not going to sign on to anything less than fixes for the ACA. 

The President SHOULD cancel their recess though, and then go play golf and stay at one of his luxury resorts... Just to show them what he is really made of. .. Then if they get anything resembling possible legislation, maybe Mr Trump can do more tweeting and cause more damage and go back to step one like he always does with our time and energies.