As much as I like these articles.. they just depress me...hell, look at the damage in Wisconsin and Michigan that goes on unabated..

If only the teabaggers really would politically die--like yesterday..

Being obstructionist assholes is making them and the 1% piles of cash.

They'll squeeze every penny out of this strategy until the profit margin fails.

along with some of the republican senators.

they don't always act in the interest of increasing their numbers. in fact, quite often they don't. they're individually motivated mostly just to keep their own jobs, then secondarily to have enough power so they can effectively please their benefactors. a majority is certainly a big help in this, though it's not always necessary.

in any event, republicans in congress control much of the dialog for the republican party, and that has a basic selection fallacy to it -- you're looking mostly to the views of the survivors; whatever they did before worked, so they're not the likeliest engines of change.

I don't know exactly what you mean, but there were about 8 republican House members who lost their seat to democrats in 2012.

that's the problem. if there were republicans who learned any lesson, it's the ones who are no longer there, no longer in a position to influence the dialog.

the ones who are in a position to influence dialog are the ones who WON in 2012.

No matter how egregious their behavior, the red-district idiots come out in droves to support them.