The GOPe can always find a reason to not fight. Should the party control the US Senate, it won't have a veto-proof majority so it needs to compromise; if it gets a super-majority, it won't have the white house and so on.
Bush43 had the whole thing and the government grew at a greater pace than before.
“Bush43 had the whole thing and the government grew at a greater pace than before.”
Exactly, everyone forgets that detail. We had the Senate, the House, the white house, and a pretty good working majority on most supreme court issues. And what did we get? An explosion is spending, prescription healthcare, TSA, the creepy Nazi-sounding Homeland Security dept, and a war that’s lasted 3 times as long as our involvement in WWII.