>The climate that existed between Congress and the Senate towards Clinton when he was President was very negative. Clinton was opposed to the degree that little got done by our elected officials. It was a difficult 8 years for our nation.
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>We are in a similar position today with Bush as President. This relationship between our representatives in Washington D.C. and the president has been very negative for many reasons.

Its a very different situation. The republicans controlled congress during the Clinton admin, didnt they? Now, we have a repub pres and a repub congress. You have a very compliant congress basically providing no oversight on the executive branch. The fact that the pres/congress relationship may be "negative" is just an example of how much of a train wreck its been.

Some comparisons from http://www.dccc.org/pdfs/oversight_report.pdf:

GOP stalling work on report of how the Iraq intel was used in war runnup.
GOP held 20 hearings on Whitewater, none on CIA leak case
GOP took 140 hours of testimony on Clinton XMAS card list, 12 hours on Abu Ghraib
GOP reform committee issued 1052 subpoenas targeting Clinton, 11 issued against GOP