I think we are close to the point where we can say that the fever has broken in the Senate. They’ve passed an immigration reform bill, relented on important executive nominations, and appear to be grasping for some kind of compromise that can save them from doing a second round of debt-ceiling hostage taking. But most of it is not meaningful because the fever has come nowhere close to breaking in the House.
As long as John Boehner still needs permission from Louis Gohmert and Phil Gingrey to have a bowel movement, our country is stuck.