is now. the dysfunction of the people s house was on full display yesterday, as the farm bill went down in flames, offering yet another striking example of how republican leadership is unable to count votes. shortly before the vote, agriculture committee chair, frank lucas, pleaded with his colleagues not to abandon ship. vote with us. vote with me on final. and if you don t, when you leave here, they ll just say it s a dysfunctional body, a broken institution, full of dysfunctional people. that s not true! actually, it is. describing the come immediatecally doomed house vote, politico reported someone in the house leadership screwed up again. the defeat of the farm bill shows once again how massively dysfunctional the house and leadership has become. still, that did not stop the