Qpublican Efforts to Avoid Prison

 The Republicans failed to convict the orange menace when he was first impeached and that left the 45 administration intact till, the lawful change of administrations on, the 20th of January, 2021; made possible the sedition that led to treason at the capitol on the 6th of January.

That leaves all the Qpublican, congress folks complicit in the crimes of the 45 administration. 

The orange menace would have had the protection of the office of president till after the statute of limitations had expired on the obstruction of justice charges listed in the unredacted parts of the Mueller Report...  Except that he wasn't re-elected.

The Republicans went from complicit in the obstruction of justice charges to being complicit in sedition and treason...  They're desperate to avoid residence in the 45 administration's cell block in a federal penitentiary.

Any wonder the Qpublicans won't reach across the aisle; act in any manner that approaches a bipartisan, legislative behavior.

The Folly of Bipartisan Government

Let's understand that the Qpublicans (were Republicans till 6 January 2021 culminated in sedition and treason) believe that no regulation, forcing business to put customer before profit margin, is a good regulation; are selling the idea that business does everything useful and government does nothing.

Qpublicans prove government can't do anything by doing nothing when they control government.

Centrist Democrats did decades of the, "neo-liberal," bipartisan thing and let the Qpublicans object to, block, everything constructive Democrats tried to do... That, should have been obvious, was not useful; we'd allowed Qpublicans to tie our hands.

Now is the time for breaking free of the notion that there can be bipartisan government. We, Democrats, tried too hard and failed massively.

Go big, Democrats, or go home because the Qpublicans have nothing they want to do, and we're just in the way.