By the standard I measure them against, Ronald Reagan, they are truly lacking. Nixon had a hostile House and Senate, Bush had republican House and Senate for the last 6 years and didn't get it done. The public just didn't see any point of giving him another two, kind of like hitting the reset button.
For most of the first 2 years the Senate was Democrat. For the next 2 years there was a 1 Senator majority, so even 1 RINO could stop anything! There has only been a more than 1 seat majority for 20 months, and even then you need 60 votes to pass partisan measures in the Senate!
We haven;t had a majority control as great as we just lost since Eisenhower's 1st 2 years. We haven't had the 60 vote margin since the 1920's -- that's 80 YEARS !! I don't know about you, but I don't expect to be too politically active when I'm 145 years old!!!!