What the GOP Can Learn from India

After their defeat on healthcare and climbdown on financial regulation, Republican leaders are scrambling to find new ways to derail the Obama agenda. Nasty partisan attacks haven't worked, 50 filibusters have failed, and expected gains in November's mid-term elections can't come soon enough. The GOP's only real short-term solution: truly creative obstructionism.

Republicans need look no further for inspiration than India, the world's largest and perhaps most gridlocked democracy. In its session ending May 7, India's increasingly unproductive Parliament managed to pass less than a quarter of the Bills teed up for approval even though the ruling coalition government enjoys an overwhelming majority in one House and a big plurality in the other. So what can the Republicans learn from India?