Invisible Man
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Controlling JUST the Senate doesn't affect budgets like owning both chambers does. You can't advance an agenda with just the Senate like you can with House and Senate. I guess you weren't old enough to remember the 1990s as an adult? The capture of both chambers by the GOP in 1996 was an historic event.
I definitely do remember that. That happened at a point in my life when I was much more in line with your Limbaugh-esque partisan views. And I agree that this combination of Republican control of Congress with Democrat control of the WH did hamper the usual steady increases in spending both parties are addicted to.
This all changed in 2001 when a Republican president was inaugurated and Republican control of both Congress and the WH resulted in runaway spending again.