What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.