The Elephant may be snoozing but it is also alert

Why am I not surprised, with Congressional elections looming, to see republicans starting to sift through their agenda by playing the background music to their conservative base with issues such as gay-marriage and abortion right bans, security over privacy, tax exemptions, and so on. Just recently a Senate panel advanced a constitutional ban on same sex marriage and Congress managed to extent another tax exemption for the wealthy. Haven't we figured out their formula yet? This is a repetitive pattern that seems to go well with the Elephant in the room: legislative proposals that come to pass whenever the base is stimulated in the right places. Republicans have shown to be great strategists, there is no denying that, but are they great administrators? There is a reason why campaign strategists and analysts are dismantled once the elections are over, at the least in a transparent democracy they should be, there is little place for them in governance, otherwise the entire tenure will resemble an Elephant snoozing in the room while the rest are too fearful to move.