Wohlforth and other lefties' idea of a legislative body doing its job is for that body to do things that lefties want done.   That's not their job; as has been the case since Comrade Obama came to power, the Congress' job was to make sure that he couldn't do what he wanted.   They didn't do that as well as I would have liked, but they at least didn't make themselves supine before his revealed lefty wisdom.   The left in Alaska can win a half dozen districts unless they pretend to be Republicans and rely on low-information voters to elect them out of ignorance.   Knowles prototyped this by sounding more like a Republican than most Republicans and then putting all of Alaska's Alinsky disciples in charge of his government.   Some of us know the game; we're not going to do the job as lefties define the job.   Defeating you and everything you want is the real job.   We want you and yours to fail; remember that line?