Thursday, the new U.S. senator from Utah did just what I said he should do. (Like he is so eager to take my advice.)
First, he voted for a bill that would have reopened the shuttered parts of the federal government, at least for awhile, including money for the big, goofy border wall that the big, goofy president is demanding. Then, when that bill failed, Sen. Mitt Romney also voted for the other alternative, a re-open-the-government bill without money for a wall.
That was the kind of legislative compromise Congress has, in days gone by, been able to forge.