Just when the pubs grow some raisins, a hungry Demoncrat eats 'em. Pubs have this inability to fight the way Demoncrats, steeped in revolutionary political warfare, fight a political war.
The Dems controlled the House for 40 straight years. They view it as their birth right. They know how to be in the majority. After ten years, the Reps are still learning. You can bet that if the situation were reversed, the Dems would have no compunction in doing whatever they want.