What if the Republicans kept Congress in 2006?

What if the Republicans kept control of both houses of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections? How could his be done, with any PoD after the 2004 election(so no referencing my Kerry TL or saying no Iraq War)? How would this effect US politics? What would the rest of the Bush presidency and the successive presidency be like? How would this impact the 2008 election? What would be the effects of an alternate outcome in 2006? What if?
 
Supposedly the Democrats also had some scandals in Congress as well. Prevent the Mark Foley Scandal and other GOP scandals, have the Democratic scandals be bigger and worse than OTL, and prevent Katrina, or at the very least have Bush respond better and you might see the GOP keep congress. You also need Iraq to go differently than OTL as well (Maybe an earlier surge, Bush for some reason begins pulling troops out?)

As for the overall effects, not much changes. Unless the collapse is prevented, which with this POD it won't, 2008 is still a Democratic year, although butterflies could make Hillary the nominee. The only difference is that the Democrats won't have supper majorities in congress, instead they'll be slim, so that means a lot less is done from 2009-2011.
 
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