The very model of a modern partisan hack, Patrick Ruffini, inadvertently illustrates why the current GOP is an utter failure:

The problem with the current “agendas” on offer is that they’re small-bore. They act as though we were still in the majority and our job was to fine-tune the workings of government. It’s not. In the minority, our job is to 1) make the majority’s life miserable, grinding the House and Senate floors to a halt, and building a narrative of the Democrats as broken and incompetent, and 2) offer big, bold alternatives to this mess like the Contract did in 1994.

Instead of governing, working to make America a better place, leading, etc., Ruffini thinks it's the job of the Republican minority to grind the government to a halt, in hopes that people will vote the GOP back in out of sheer frustration with the lack of government action - inaction which the GOP itself caused.

Step 1: Control the government
Step 2: Profit
Step 3: ????