Even small ball too much for Congress

Even small ball too much for Congress-politico: Everybody knows that Congress can’t do anything big any more — but it turns out Capitol Hill is equally hapless about getting the small stuff done as well. All the dysfunctional partisan gridlock keeping the House and Senate worlds apart on the transcendent issues of the day also means little progress on the no-brainers, like technical corrections and minor fixes to Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. Revamping the nation’s energy policies with low-hanging fruit proposals championed by both Democratic and GOP lawmakers are stuck, too.