Wishful thinking.
Via Washington Examiner:
[D]emocrats gleefully claimed the twin failures demonstrated that the Republican Party is in disarray, driven to chaos by the party’s far-right, Tea Party faction.
“The Republican Party, on fiscal issues, is falling apart before our very eyes,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. said. “They can’t pass fundamental bills because a hard-right group has huge political power but is so far off the deep end that Republicans can’t go along. It’s an amazing moment.”
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was just as blunt. “The Republican appropriations process has imploded,” he said.