The disaster of the Gingrich revolution proved just how wrong this analysis was.
In general, in point of fact, today's congressional Republicans are more solidly conservative than they were during the Gingrich revolution.
Rather than reward Margolies-Mezvinsky for her courage, she was defeated in 1994 alongside dozens of other House Democrats, paving the way for the Gingrich Revolution.
But his skill in holding the caucus together through the traumas of the Gingrich revolution and the Clinton impeachment earned him the unanimous support of his party.
The last time they were dumped in a national election, in the Clinton landslide of 1992, they returned with a vengeance in the Gingrich revolution of 1994.
The failure of the Gingrich revolution made many conservatives rethink their root-and-branch opposition to government, and the success of welfare reform has removed the most egregious example of government incompetence.
Over that time, the old establishment in Washington has been pushed aside, starting with Ronald Reagan's conservative sweep into Washington in 1980, followed by the Bill Clinton years, the Newt Gingrich revolution in the House in 1994, and the Democratic comeback of 2006.
Mr Watts, who was first elected to Congress in 1994 as part of Newt Gingrich's conservative revolution, lost a power struggle with Tom DeLay, the majority whip (and number three in the hierarchy).
Faced with House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution, however, the "Comeback Kid" proved remarkably adept on defense, successfully portraying the GOP agenda as extreme and out of step with ordinary Americans, especially on the politically explosive issue of reforming Medicare.
O'Neill doesn't mince words: a colleague recalls introducing O'Neill to Newt Gingrich at the height of the Republican revolution.
That was the first time the Democrats controlled Congress since the 1994 Republican revolution, when Rep. Newt Gingrich led his party to a sweeping victory.
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