Actually what Bush is working like crazy to do is to "Mr. Nice Guy himself" into a Republican Senate to go with the Republican House so he can appoint anybody he likes to the federal bench (including SC) and the executive branch for 2003-2004 and quite possibly till 2008. If he can accomplish that task, he can make some real history which is what he fully intends to do if he is able. With a split Congress, he can't. He is trying to set up the dems. to defeat themselves, and his poll numbers suggest he is succeeding.
Of course, Bush can't achieve a Republican Senate all by himself, he will need some luck regarding the course of both national and international events and good campaigns from the candidates themselves, but whatever he can put into the effort, he is putting in. He is avoiding picking fights with the dems. to keep his polls high with the center of the electorate which every president needs to hold onto in order to have the support to make real policy changes.
Bush intends to do some big things, and he needs a Republican Congress to accomplish them. I credit Common Tater with these thoughts; he expressed them first.
You, and others, seem to have missed an important fact brought out in the article. Many of these people and groups have contracts with the government, they are not employees. When their contracts expire they will not be renewed.