The House will come back to the GOP assuming we wake up and back our candidates by actually voting. If I am correct only 25 million Republicans bothered to vote compared to 31-35 million Democrats. They were motivated while we were upset about one stupid thing or another, or worse were to lazy to get off our butts!
Single issue Republicans have always been the party's downfall... too principled to compromise and all that rot. Worse than RINOs in many ways.
Rush used to talk about the Schauz race for CA Senate back in '86 ... he was pro-choice, so all the pro-life R's stayed home and refused to support him. He lost. Then we got Boxer. That really helped pro-lifers a lot. And, we also got Justices Kennedy and Souter during what might have been Schauz's term.