That was the way it was intended to work. It is SUPPOSED to be difficult to pass laws. That way, only laws which were important to everyone would pass. The real damage is done when the Legislative and Executive branches are rubber stamping each other. Both wind up taking more power for themselves, and dictating to the people, rather than securing liberty.This is easily observed when the electorate has sent up an Opposition Congress to the White House. How that works itself out in anyone's mind to be a good idea is beyond me because it logjams a process already littered with tedious people.
The whole idea was to have a small, rather powerless Federal government settling trade disputes between independent states. Sort of a unified free trade area. That idea failed during the period between 1860 (when the States lost the right to secede) and 1912 (with the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments). What we have now is a populist, socialist oligarchy.

