Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) has announced his retirement, in large part because of the inability of Congress to do, well, anything. In an interview with Talking Points Memo he describes the state of the House of Representatives under Republican rule:

“It consists half of people who think like Michele Bachmann and half of people who are afraid of losing a primary to people who think like Michele Bachmann,” he said, “and that leaves very little room to work things out.”