When the Republicans control all three branches of government they will be, at best, Bush. There will be no improvement because of Republican control of the elected portion of the government. Republicans, including Tea Party Republicans, will not do a thing to eliminate EPA and Homeland Security or even TSA or any other Federal agency and those agenciess ARE the government. The elected portion provides a lot of fire and thunder but their influence is small, now and growing less.
The Congress and other elected officials DO NOT KNOW what the meaning of CUT THE BUDGET really is about. They don’t have the “backbone to even address it publicly”.
You are right. It was that grand Republican Nixon who brought the EPA into existence. It was the Bush family Republicans who spoke the glories of the ‘new world order’. It is the likes of McCain and Norquist that remove the ordinary citizen from a Republican republic of the Founders.