There are a number of disturbing aspects of this news, but I find the new "no discussion, no consideration, no compromise" attitude of the Republican party to be extremely frightening.
Of course, that was when the Democrats were coming in to power.
Now that the Republicans seem to be coming back in to power, it seems that "compromise" is off the table. Not that it ever was on the table for Republicans.
Basically whoever has a majority talks that way - both parties.
I wish we could have at least 3 (very different) parties so that no one party could ever get an automatic majority.
Failing that I like the current situation where each house has a different party in the majority.
It's just not good for politicians to have too much power, forcing them to compromise and negotiate is very good for them.