If the opposite of pro is con, what's the opposite of Progress?

I haven't really posted much in the way of politics over the past couple of years, but I think this article is pretty non-partisan.


14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever, The Washington Post


Some of my favorite lines...

If doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result makes you insane, what does doing the same thing 33 times and expecting a different result make you? Well, it makes you the 112^th Congress.

Perhaps, after this near-death experience, you would expect the leaders of the 112^thCongress to be chastened. Your naivete is touching.

Having proven incapable of solving one of the country’s problems, they voluntarily created another problem that they also don’t know how to solve.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional.