Plus remember right from the start everything was delayed for President Bush because of all of that Florida election crap.
...and the Rats who held the Senate were stalling on confirmations.
Also if everyone remembers that Navy electronic intel gathering plane landed on that Chinese island. I forgot the name of it but he had to deal with that the first month or two of his administration. Big foreign policy issue at the time. I would say the Dems attempted coup in Nov and Dec of 2000 slowed down his administrations start up in the beginning of 2001.