The “NY Times reports”:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/us/politics/23cong.html?_r=1&hp that:
bq. Many Republicans complained bitterly in recent days that Democrats were ignoring their rejection in the election and abusing their last weeks of Congressional control to jam through a final flurry of expensive, intrusive programs.
Um, doesn’t that sound a tad bit similar to losing the House, Senate, and the presidency, and then relying on “filibusters and procedural rules”:https://themonkeycage.org/2010/03/reforming_the_senate_1_reviewi.html in the Senate for two years to both block and shape as much legislation as possible?