[Prolifeconservative]

Your logic makes sense to a point. Republicans (conservatives) in the house and Senate are very reluctant about bucking their President on domestic issues. The arm twisting from the Bully Pulpit is enormous and is very effective.

So a liberal agenda gets put into law as well as any conservative agenda. It's a trade-off.

In your scenario, it's quite likely nothing would get done with a Republican controlled Congress and a Liberal in the White House.

It's pick-your-poison. In the end, after watching how this President is advancing the liberal cause albeit more slowly than a full-fledged attack with all Branches of government being controlled by liberals, I really don't see how you could be flamed for your premise.

[RinaseaofDs]

With the current leadership, I'd say you might be right. Gingrich didn't care. What is amazing about him was at the time, wasn't he the only R from Georgia? Now what's Georgia's delegation look like today? More than half are R's.

Gingrich had a full backbone installed, to the point where he shut down the government. It backfired on him, but he proved you could be principled and still maintain R control, at least in the House.