For example, if you stall and block a Surgeon General nominee, then you don't get a Surgeon General appointed. And, sooner or later, when you actually need and want a Surgeon General around, you don't have one. At which point you can complain about how government doesn't work.
How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse
Why don’t Americans have a surgeon general to explain the Ebola crisis? Because the NRA-influenced Senate can’t get its act together.
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Presumably this falls under unintended consequences.
We don't need a surgeon general. We have our guns.
+John E. Bredehoft This specific outcome? Sure. The basic consequence of the government not being able to operate effectively? I think it's quite intended.