This article makes "approval rating" some kind of power that can be wielded while overlooking a change that really explains why tax cuts were passed then and judges aren't approved now.
We had the Senate then, and we don't now.
Personally, I think it really is that simple. Jeffords changed the balance of power.
Bush did not use the bully pulpit. He let dashole & gephardt play their little games and said nothing. He let the dems hold up his judicial appointments and said nothing.
He should have let the public know the dems are obstructionists.
Either republicrats do not know how to play the political game or they are just clones of the dems. I'm fed up with both parties. Neither of them have any honorable people within their ranks. They swore to uphold the Constitution and have continously violated their oath.