Dear personal-insult-Mark:
If you read Lewis' book, or any of 10,000 news items in the last decade, "power" is simply seized these days more than acquired by norms.
The GQP is playing a different game, gaming the system, and simply doing whatever advances their agenda. You know, like what they did to Obama's Supreme Court pick....
To think that the GQP wouldn't have reconstructed the PO Board if the situation was reversed, you are living is to live in a failing "fantasy", and one that hasn't been paying attention the last 5 years.
It is "fantasy" to live in a world thinking the GQP is going to change their power grabbing ways and the Dems have to wait for them to stop.
Simply grabbing power is the entire GQP strategy. This is the party that didn't even have a presidential platform!