"This anti-government crowd thwarted Republican leader John Boehner of Indiana, eventually forcing him out as speaker of the House."

This all goes back to Ronald Reagan's canard, "Government isn't the answer to our porblems.  government is the problem."  Ever since then the Republican Party has become increasingly anti-government until it has arrived at today's point where its member have no idea or interest in governing.  When one elects a party to power whose only talents are destructive, the result is the mess this country is in now.