I suspect it'd be a lot more fun to be a minority congressman. No pressure to produce anything but all the perks. You can concentrate on arranging Capital tours for constituents in the morning and knock off for the day at 11:00 am.
Never thought of it that way. But, power corrupts and many of these guys who have been there for a gazillion years like Jack Murtha and John Conyers hate losing their power as the controlling party.