You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be smooth sailing.

Oil companies can see the winds have shifted even with Republicans in control of Congress. The White House is reeling. All of a sudden the industry does not have the strong backing it had six months ago.

Oil companies can see the winds have shifted even with Republicans in control of Congress,

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, the money moved from being roughly equal between Democrats and Republicans to very heavily Republican.

We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so we don't have to pay for it