[John Lenin]

We now stand as close as we have ever been to a one party system

We pretty much had one party rule for 30 years when the demoRATS controlled both houses. The only power the GOP really had during that time was the bully pulpit and the veto pen. It's a shame they are acting like such losers now that they have power because it can very easily revert back to the other side for another 30 years. The US Senate needs term limits, it's as close to a dictatorship in the Senate as the old Soviet Union.

[Kuehn12]

Alot of the Reagan's policies got through even with a Democratically controlled Congress, 1986 tax reform, numerous increases in defense spending and so on.

Jimmy Carter was considered ineffectual for most of his term in office. What was the ideological mix in Congress during his administration?

Only during the Johnson/Rosevelt adminstrations was there Xanadu for the liberals, at least in the last century. Six out of eight years of the Clinton administration there were Republican majorities in Congress, so he wasn't running the play book.

What I am saying is that something historic is happening. The Democrats are imploding and the country is becoming more conservative as a reaction to the fruit and nut 60's revolution. This is giving the Republicans a chance to run the table, keep the White House, build super majorities in both houses of Congress, and reverse the trend toward liberal judical activism through out the country. To my knowledge this hasn't happen before.