There are precisely ZERO New England Republicans in the House and only a modest number in the Northeast (although they have a majority in PA and a tie in New Jersey). As it is, Democrats are overrepresented in office in that region, and that is unsustainable. Same goes for California, which is ludicrously overrepresented (ditto Oregon and even Arizona). Had it not been for Democrat and (left-wing) "Independent" redistricting commissions (and an absurd law in FL demanding "fair" lines, whatever that means), the GOP might not have lost any seats overall (aside from some weak wins from 2010).
I count eleven GOP-held House seats in the Northeast that, on paper, truly are very competitive for Democrats (NY-02, NY-11, NY-19, NY-22, NY-23, NJ-02, NJ-03, PA-06, PA-07, PA-08 and PA-15), but none of them can be said truly to lean Democrat. The closest would be NY-19 (Gibson) and NJ-02 (LoBiondo), but Gibson won fairly comfortably in spite of the 2012 Obama turnout and LoBiondo is well entrenched in his district. And even if the Democrats won all eleven of these CDs, they’d still fall short of 218.
I seem to remember lots of talk here for the past three years about how Republicans will going to take back the Senate and the WH in 2012. Rush and others were fueling this by claiming that Democrats would not come out and vote.
He was also saying that all the polls were rigged and most Americans naturally sided with Rs over Ds, that was repeated here.
Now it is true that winning lots of House Seats is different than the WH or Senate, that many of these smaller districts are gerry-mandered into either solid D or R. So it is not unlikely that Rs lose a few more House Seats and run the House by a very slim majority in 2016 for Os final years, with him keeping the Senate.
So this means the congress wont function except to pass popular spending bills like this disaster aid bill.
In many cases it wont be bad, like O wants gun control and amnesty so those will hopefully die in the senate. But O will do his best to use executive orders which wont be challenged by new laws.
But whenever a huge crisis deadline comes up like all taxes go up, or the Debt limit, or a shutdown, Bohner will just pass whatever the Reid Senate dictates after he cant get House Rs behind him, which he wont because they cant even agree on what they want.('we want spending cuts, except...')
And they will complain again, but no one was willing to step up to the plate to take his job. That wont happen till Pelosi takes the House back because then opposing everything becomes an election winner again as in 2010.