What you say may very well be true, but Clinton also did not see himself as being part of a Party-he was the Party!
Nixon had this same view also.
I think each branch of gov't should respect the others Constitutional bounderies.
And on the political level, each should try to help the other two remain under control of its own Party.
I think alot of the House/Senate Republican public criticism of Bush over certain issues that have nothing to do with them has not helped our Party.
If the GOP wants to remain in control, then it needs to do something about the spending. Individual Congressmen may have an interest in maintaing the spoils system for individual districts, but it doesn't help things nationally for that state of affairs to continue. Hence, those individual Congressmen have to be brought to heel, one way or the other.