Please remember that although the Republicans had majority control of the Senate, they never had enough votes to stop a Dem filibuster. The Dems blocked many good bills in the Senate and the Republicans couldn’t do anything to stop them.
I’m going to have to say that I don’t buy into that. Yes, some bills may have come and been stricken down by the Dem minority in the Senate, but we did not do what we could have. If the Democrats were going to go that route, Bush should have ruled by Executive Order and forced them to over-ride his governance. He didn’t have to do it on everything. He could have done it a couple of times to put the Democrats on notice that he was serious. At that point they would have had to fall back in line or else.
The Democrats play hardball. We go out there in a sun dress with a beach ball. It’s embarrassing.