A couple of days after the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans held their narrow lead in the House and captured the Senate, PBS's Bill Moyers hypeventilated that, with George W. Bush in the White House, the slim Republican majorities would give conservatives "the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives.... power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich... [and] a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable."
"Republicans out-raised Democrats by $184 million and they came up with the big prize: monopoly control of the American government and the power of the state to turn their radical ideology into the law of the land. Quite a bargain at any price."