I agree on your first point. They should have acted under Bush. We weren’t at the table in 2010 because the other party had enough seats they didn’t let us at the table. The situation in 2010 is directly because our party was such an f-up when we had the House and 55 Senate votes, and squandered it.
I heard Darryl Is a say exactly the same thing in a speech right after Obama won and the DEMs took over.