Way back in the '60s, I said that it was time for the GOP to take their collective white gloves off and FIGHT! Four decades later, I'm still wishing for the same thing.
In the 1960s, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen came into the Oval Office and helped LBJ pick bombing targets. That guaranteed GOP support for the unpopular Vietnam War. LBJ once told the late John G. Tower that Tower had given him more help with the war than "my entire damned party." The two parties always find ways to get together, and it is always the GOP that comes up short, isn't it?