re: #29 Targetpractice

Thing about it is that the GOP has gerrymandered the country so effectively that they’d actually cement their reelections by driving the country into a depression in order to pressure Obama into killing Medicare.

Disagree (mostly). They face the O’Donnell Angle. That is, their gerrymandering has put many of them in a painful fork: win their primary, or win their election. Yes, for a while they can do both. But in most of the gerrymander locations they’re facing primaries from the right, for which the only winning answer is to be “nuttier than thou”. As already seen the internet never forgets, nor do the moderate republicans. Push it too far and they either stay home (which happened a lot this past election) or vote the other way.

It isn’t going to be soon, but most of them will be destroyed by their success.