and quite frankly, they haven't even taken baby steps during the 12 years in power
Well, you see Care, we had this little problem of Democrats wanting to gum up the works with filibusters and require super-majority votes to get anything passed. I think that was the main problem, the legislation was written, and Republicans would have voted for it, but Democrats obstructed anything they tried to do, and insisted it was their Constitutional right to do so... you even made that very point to me. So, don't go lashing out at Republicans for failing to do anything with their "power" when it was Democrats who prevented anything from being done.
they tried to filibuster some NOMINATIONS of a couple of people, that's it...all legislation that the republicans wanted the republicans got, with no filibuster stopping them in 6 years...
so cry a river if you like, but the republicans were not stopped by the democrats at all...in fact, the democrats DID NOT DO THEIR JOB and filibuster the whole lot of illegal actions of the president and the republican congress....
you reap what you sow, and this congress controlled by republicans for 12 years, is giving us nothing but illegal, unconstitutional, lawlessness.