By the way, the bully pulpit is one of the most powerful tools (if not the most powerful tool) in a president's arsenal. If you learned nothing else from the Bush years, it should have been that. That a president can get just about anything he wants through Congress and into law if he's stolid and relentless in his sales pitch and tactics. If he keeps at it, escalates his attacks, doesn't take 'no' for an answer, if he never backs down he will wear the opposition down. And if not during his term, then in concert or in relay with the next or a future presidential administration.
Bush-Cheney-R0ve weren't geniuses, they didn't invent the strategy, nor was it something that political operatives didn't know or that political science students don't learn in poli sci 101 (or business majors at the Wharton school, or MBAs from Harvard). Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the political parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans, been more subtle about.
What Bush-Cheney-Rove showed Democrats, though, was that when you have control over both Houses of Congress and the Judiciary, there's no need to be subtle. You don't even have to hide your intentions. You just do it, and ignore anyone who objects. Obama knows this, and does it regularly to the Democratic base.
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