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Bull. If the Republicans acted more like a majority than a minority, we'd have 60 seats instead of 48 with 7 definite maybes. And we wouldn't be working to keep the RINOs that we have in office. The Bush/Rove strategy turned what should have been two landslide elections into nail-biters. (I have never understood why some people think Rove is so brilliant.)

Let's look at some of the successes of the New Tone. We can start with the education bill, written by good ole Ted and then criticized as inadequate by him as soon as it was passed. Then we can move on to power sharing in the Senate, under Trent Lott.

We are fighting a PC war in Iraq because we don't want to seem like bad guys to the Democrats and the Press.

We won't seal our borders because we might offend Presidente Fox (and we've come up with that nifty new amnesty, um, guest worker plan to lure those pesky new Hispanic voters, too!) I wonder what the spin will be when the next attack occurs and we find they came in unmolested over the Northern or Southern border? It's going to be hard to blame that one on the Clintons.

We search old ladies and young girls at the airports while letting the young Arab men walk by unscathed because we don't want to seem like we would use the information we've already got on known hijackers because we might be accused of profiling.

And we've got the Senate held hostage by 5-7 of our own supposed Republicans, because, under the New Tone we just all want to get along. If the President had gotten tough with Dems and RINOs alike he might have actually been able to accomplish more of his agenda than a weak tax cut, spending that would make Bill Clinton blush and a tort reform bill.

We didn't send Republicans to Washington to make nice and play well together. We sent them to enact our agenda. Those that don't will find their stay shorter than they may have hoped.

The Dems are down and going out. Now is not the time to try and make nice. It's time to start shoveling the dirt over them.

Look, I was a little harsh my first response, but I'm sick and tired of you hardcores thinking ramitdowntheirthroat works. It doesn't, it hasn't ever worked. You've made some good points, but w/out realizing you're just not dealing with the dems, you're dealing with the PEOPLE of America. You just can not ramrod thru an aganda w/out paying a consequence. Why do you think dems are always calling Repubs extremist, because they know the people don't want extremist governing.

Take no prisoner's = Extremism.

There's no way Bush would have EVER had a landslide except in fantasy land!

I say the Repubs call an all out war on the Dems. A fight to the finish. Not pc or political speak but a war of ideas. Republicans are the majority and I for one expect them to act like it for a change. If President Bush wanted to get his base back and get them motivated, an all out war with the Dems would do it. I think most people are as sick of all the "politics as usual" as I am.

If the President had gotten tough with Dems and RINOs alike he might have actually been able to accomplish more of his agenda than a weak tax cut, spending that would make Bill Clinton blush and a tort reform bill.

Also this Frist character was GWs choice. Then Bubba on stage with him. Then the Harriet Miers fiasco. How about the new bankruptcy act bailing out the big boys. You have filled in the other major points. Face. We got a moderate president that really doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of anyone & float thru 2 terms with handing his rich business buddies the goodies & placating the rest - and then 9-11 happened & the party was over.