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Basically, how do we see the GOP in Congress taking a more centrist and accomodationist path after the 2010 elections?

I personally think that the loss in the '06 midterms gutted the establishment GOP in Congress to an irrelevant degree, creating a vacuum for Conservatives dissatisfied with party leadership to ride the Tea Party wave.

What I am getting at here is that the GOP Congress under Hastert and DeLay was one that I think was probably more willing to compromise with Obama if they got the opportunity. However, it was a Congress with significantly more moral issues. George W. Bush, despite working with that Congress for 6 years, in interviews has been known to say that he mistrusted the "culture of sleaze" allowed to develop under Hastert and he blamed that, in addition to the failed Social Security reform of '05, for the midterm loss of 2006 (the Iraq War actually was not nearly as unpopular as some have said; support was still along party lines in 2006).

Do you see it possible that the cadre of GOP leadership from the Hastert era can still be around today? Would they be more likely to cooperate with Obama or would they shut down the government?
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