Party in Government: The Significance of 1994

Follow to Lizzie's post --  Birth year:

• 1981-1996:  Millennial
• 1965-1980:  Gen X
• 1946-1964:  Boomer
• 1928-1945:  Silent

This graph does not bode well for the future of the National Federation of Republican Women:

Review some basics

Hill leadership

• House
• Senate

Edmund Burke:

In all bodies, those who will lead, must also, in a considerable degree, follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition, of those whom they wish to conduct: therefore, if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world, and for that reason cannot enter into calculation, will prevent the men of talent disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instruments of absurd projects!

Lee's take on strategic postures (p. 61):

                                                Majority                                      Minority

            Pres Party                    Legislating                                 Supporting president, sustaining

                                                                                                    vetoes                                                

           

            Out Party                    Legislating & Messaging            Mostly messaging

                                               "Create veto moments" p. 65

The strategy of confrontation (start video at 2:00)

Leadership elections -- Gingrich wins for whip in 1989

Gingrich also leads GOPAC:  which provides training materials and a platform for Newt

The Contract with America -- limited public knowledge

Clinton and Triangulation