Any time spent on social media — X in particular — makes it very clear that conservative Americans are utterly fed up with congressional Republicans. And with good reason. The current (119th) Congress has set records for what The Washington Post called "low legislative output" — second only to the 118th.

To be fair, Speaker Mike Johnson and the House of Representatives have been giving it the old college try. But most of the proposed legislation that has passed the House has gone into indefinite limbo in the Senate.

The Senate's most visible failure (and the one that has probably created the greatest fury among voters) is its abject refusal to pass the SAVE Act, which mandates voter ID and proof of U.S. citizenship to vote (and which a majority of Americans, regardless of party affiliation, support and feel is needed to protect the integrity of our elections). That disgrace can be laid squarely at the feet of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who has had two years to drum up the votes in the Senate, and who claims that he just can't do it. Meanwhile, he drones on and on in his public speeches about how Republicans in Congress are fulfilling their campaign promises.

Nonsense. Thune spends more time justifying all the vacation the senators take than passing legislation that Americans sent him and the rest of Senate Republicans to Congress to enact.

Frustrated with Congress' inertia and the price of gas — with all the attendant cost increases that it causes — no small number of conservative voters are threatening to stay home.

That would be a mistake of catastrophic proportions.

Yes, Thune needs to be gone. As do a number of other feckless Republicans. But, to borrow Aragorn's famous line from the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," it is not this day. Or, more........

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