A couple of Republicans share their views on how GOP did in the 2005 legislative session.

AJC's James Salzer provides some comments by Republicans on the 2005 legislative session:

[N]ot all Republicans were . . . enamored with their party's first session of majority rule since Reconstruction.

"If you're a conservative Republican, you have to be very disappointed, very frustrated," said former Cobb County Commission Chairman Bill Byrne, who ran against Perdue in 2002. "They accomplished things for special-interest groups. They didn't accomplish anything on behalf of the state of Georgia."

While Republicans touted their accomplishments, Democrats and even some GOP veterans were underwhelmed by the legislation that came out of Atlanta this year. For instance, Byrne argued that little was done to help solve transportation, health care, education and air quality problems. He said the ban on indoor smoking showed an interventionist side of the GOP General Assembly.

"We Republicans stress less government and staying out of people's lives. How can we tell people they can't smoke?" he asked.

Former Republican state Rep. Matt Towery, now president of an Internet-based political media company, gave his old colleagues a "B," although he added that much of what they passed won't resonate with Georgians.

"Is this a legislative session that was more than adequate? The answer is 'yes,' " he said. "Is this a legislative session you can mount a campaign on? That's a bigger question.

"It was a functionally good session with legislation that probably doesn't have mass appeal."