Committees are where items to vote on originate. Replacing bad pubs with better pubs is not enough to take over the committees. We need to grow the number of pubs so that we have a majority so that we control the committees. If we control the committees we control what gets voted on at all.
To do that we need to defeat dims that are shakey in their districts. If we can have revenge, punishment etc. and still get a majority that’s fine but the priority should be to defeat dims because in the final analysis it won’t matter how congress critters vote if the good bills stay bottled up in committees controlled by dims and bad bills are voted out to the floor.
This is what they are beating us with.
But it's a real good start. I think there's a rule that a bill can't be voted out of committee unless it gets at least one vote from the opposition (not sure if it's house or senate). Putting somebody like Snowe on any important committee is silly, as she always provides the Democrats a way out.
It would help us bottle these horrible bills up in committee if we had only conservatives on the important committees, or at least if we had republicans with a grain of party discipline.