http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-republicans-deal-97768.html?hp=t1_3
The prevailing wisdom ahead of the government shutdown was that tea party lawmakers who agitated for it would fold within a few days, once they got an earful from angry constituents and felt the sting of bad headlines. House GOP leaders called it a “touch the stove” moment for the band of Republican rebels, when ideology would finally meet reality.
But there’s another reality that explains why that thinking may well be wrong, and the country could be in for a protracted standoff: Most of the Republicans digging in have no reason to fear voters will ever punish them for it.The vast majority of GOP lawmakers are safely ensconced in districts that, based on the voter rolls, would never think of electing a Democrat. Their bigger worry is that someone even more conservative than they are — bankrolled by a cadre of uncompromising conservative groups — might challenge them in a primary.
this begs to question should politicians who by design land in those areas of their majority by gerrymandering.
should they just cater to that group or do they have a more fiduciary responsibility to America to not engage in destructive legislation that can destroy the rest of the country against their will.
if the answer is yes we must repeal gerrymandering it disenfranchises those voters who are not republican inclined. the progressives voted the republicans out of the house by over a million votes,
those people got their votes usurped and nullified while the right says we elected them to control the house again. there is no limit don't mistake they will as you have seen stop at nothing the most egregious part is they have no compunction about doing it in our faces in broad daylight.
