About that, Krauthammer

Why winning the Senate matters (by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post)

But regaining the Senate would finally give the GOP the opportunity, going into 2016, to demonstrate its capacity to govern.

The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House.

OK, Krauthammer - about those bills. Most of what the Republican House sent to the Senate was ridiculous stuff, like every bill to repeal Obamacare, or those based on Paul Ryan's crazy-ass budget ideas, or a bunch of useless social legislation that is anathema to the principles on which this country was founded. The scary thing about this is that if the Senate and House are both under Republican control, this stuff will get further, and they'll try to load it as poison pills into bills that have to get passed (like to keep the government running) and when Obama vetoes it they'll blame him for shutting down the government, when in fact the reason for shutting down the government will be the ridiculousness and untenability of what they are trying to pass.

Keeping the Senate in Democratic hands is one of the last ways we can avoid another step toward the collapse of the United States' democracy's ability to govern - and most of the steps already taken have been due to the polarity of hard-right ideologue Republicans.