They can still avert major league disaster and make it just an ass kicking, but I don’t think they are smart enough to do so because there a horrific case of the Peter Principle going on in DC.
Tom Cole, the head of the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, has been losing race after race he shouldn't have been losing. This is just the third THIS YEAR -- in heavily Republican districts.
However nobody in the GOP has the guts to actually fire the guy, despite his obvious incompetence.
He hasn't been raising money, he hasn't been recruiting candidates, and he hasn't been spinning a positive message. Now admittedly, a lot of this goes above the pay grade of an Oklahoma Congressman, but the pied-piper mentality screws us over royally.