[Real Cynic No More]

Excellent post! Bush can't go it alone. As long as Congress is divided evenly, with a left-leaning tendency, he can't do anything other than what he's doing, i.e., picking his battles.

[My2Cents]

As long as Congress is divided evenly, with a left-leaning tendency, he can't do anything other than what he's doing, i.e., picking his battles.

Bingo! You nailed it. There are two kind of conservatives: the armchair idealists who are too purist to get anything done, and the pragmatists who have to make the hard decisions about what is doable and what isn't. The pragmatists are the ones who are actually getting anything accomplished. The rest sit back and whine. Someone quoted Reagan in a similar thread yesterday: "Get what we can now; the rest we'll come back for later."