Whenever the GOP gains power, they botch it. Consider recent history:

• GWB responds to the events of 9/11 by starting two disastrous wars.
• In 2012, they nominate Akin and Mourdock for the Senate.
• The Senate votes a compromise on immigration, but the House ignores it..
• Warned not to appoint Michael Flynn, President Trump does it.
• Without an alternative, the GOP attacks Obamacare, which is popular with voters, and fails for now.
• Against majority opinion, the GOP tries to sell tax hikes for many to fund tax cuts for wealthy individuals and profitable corporations.
• They drag their feet on DACA and Child Health Plus.
• They turn a blind eye to catastrophic climate change.
• They attack education, and in particular higher education.
• They promote racial divisions.
• They attack minorities: LBGT, immigrants, women.
• They threaten us with cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
• They embrace a sex offender in the person of Roy Moore.
• They accept a long list of executive actions without protest (see link below).

Given a chance to do good, they invariably muff it.

http://capuano.house.gov/news/curtain.shtml