[jyl]

Joe, my comment is based on practicality. Bush's goal should be to get some things accomplished in the final years of his term, and I believe that in fact is his goal, for "legacy" reasons.

Is he more likely to get a major piece of legislation passed through a Democratic Congress through (1) a give-and-take compromise-cooperate process scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours process, or (2) the old "F U my way or the highway"?

You use (2) only if your opponent is powerless and frightened. The Democrats are not powerless anymore, nor are they frightened.

That is why I am saying that to choose "F U my way or the highway" is a bad decision. It may make you feel good, but in two years Bush will step down with nothing to show for it.