Agreed. I remember the '94 Republican Revolution. I was ecstatic that the old guard Liberals in Congress and Senate had been displaced by Republicans, finally. Tom Foley, the Speaker of the House, was voted out! The second time in history, IIRC.
Roll the tape to 2000: we finally have the presidency, barely, and Clinton is finally gone. We can finally start to SHRINK the size of government. Uh-oh, 9/11! Our priorities change! The conservative agenda is on hold as expected for such a tragedy. Now what? Deficit spending, growing government, new department, a what?-a new entitlement-prescription drugs? War not going well, Republican corruption, Amnesty, deficit spending still - the conservative agenda got locked in the closet, for the foreseeable future.
When the Repubs get back in office, I have little faith that they will reverse the Obama agenda, for instance, health care. We could be screaming from the top of our lungs to reverse it and they will panty-waist-milquetoat-meely-mouth their way out of not doing a darn thing. Somebody wake me up from this nightmare.
What a roller coaster, from that, to rolling over rather than shutting down the government. I knew, the day that the GOP didn't capitalize on the government shutdown, that the GOP was not serious about shrinking the federal government.
-- When the Repubs get back in office, I have little faith that they will reverse the Obama agenda, for instance, health care. --
They've already said they plan to keep parts of it. No demolition of the federal dept of education, etc.
The federal government can't collapse fast enough to suit me.