Your posts remind me of things Rush has said in the past (yes, that is a compliment! ;-).
LOL Thank you. On this Rush and I are on the same page.
I gave them leeway when they didn't have a majority in practice. As of Nov. 3, 2004 they have a majority. Slight as it may be. I have given them a few months to settle into the roles and since I hear the same rhetoric, little action, and more excuses as to why they cannot lead. The president can lead and take the rest of the world with him on foreign policy but in the House and the Senate he needs these people to stick their neck out and do the job expected of them. Certainly if they can pass measures we aren't in agreement with, passing measures we DO like that supposedly do not go against the conservative principles they claim should be welcomed.
I'm not sympathetic to poll driven pols. I don't like a minority oppressing the majority. It's time they acted. If not, My impression is that it is time to put up our own candidates in the primaries and send a very strong message that we'll kick them out if they don't follow through.