Except that it is the current ranking minority members who will take over chairmanships of committees in January. These ranking members are the most left wing members of the DemocRAT delegation in the House. Even if theses freshman congressmen are "blue dog DemocRATS", they will be voting for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House.
The only Democrat that I can remember voting for the Republican speaker was Ralph Hall of TX and he finally became a Republican.
I still think we should offer Lieberman head of Armed Services and oust Warner and get Lieberman to caucus with us.