For a GOP that is unpopular as you say, you'd think they would have had their asses handed to them back in November, yet the house remains strongly republican.
That being said, our current house of nincompoops doesn't have the balls to shut down the gov't like they should. Funny how liberals think spending cuts in a recession is bad. I guess you would also think that if you were in debt up to your eyeballs personally that cutting back your spending would be just as bad?
In case history hasn't taught you, you can't spend your way out of a recession.