It seems to me that the main cause of Congressional dysfunction is the fact that it is controlled by a party whose official position is that government cannot function. Republican congressmen make this a self-fulfilling prophesy. Eliminate GOP control of Congress and it might just get things done like it did before the far-right took over the Republican party.

Of course that will likely mean tax increases on the top 10% from things like eliminating the social security payment cap, carried interest and the immorally low capital gains tax rate. Lincoln declared that labor is more important than capital as it precedes capital, but you wouldn't know that from our current relative tax treatment of the two.