Ceding power on the hope that your enemy will power-share says a lot about the new tone that Bush tried to use in dealing with democrats. Giving away your country on the vain hope that it will be surrendered back again is nuts.
Bush's effort to have a new tone resulted in the remainder of the Clinton regime staying on in the state dept and in other agencies to the point that they created roadblocks and hamstrung his administration.
George W. Bush sees himself as a gentleman but in reality he was a tool for his father and those unseen shadowy forces that convinced him that Ben Bernacke was the right man from whom to take financial advice.
Republican primary voters are hence highly liable for the failure of the American system. They are just too liberal themselves and enchanted with name ID.