Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, proclaimed Wednesday that Republicans may have built a
“hundred-year majority” in the House.
“We’re as back to a majority as any of us have seen in our lifetimes. It may be a
hundred-year majority,” he said.
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On November 10, 1994, then-Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), feeling confident after a GOP wave, told the Washington Post that he saw the cycle as “a permanent realignment” in Republicans’ favor, adding, “I think that realignment can make us the
permanent majority party in the Congress.”
In 2001, CNN ran a report on Karl Rove, who saw George W. Bush as a figure who could “usher in a
permanent Republican majority.”
Two years later, the New Yorker ran this profile of Rove.
Rove’s main goal over the next year and a half is making George W. Bush what his father wasn’t, a reëlected President – when I asked if he had mapped out the campaign, he said, “Don’t expect me to answer this question” – but he is too ambitious to want only that. The real prize is creating a Republican majority that would be as solid as, say, the Democratic coalition that Franklin Roosevelt created – a majority that would last for a generation.
A year later, Tom DeLay told a group of Republicans at a retreat, “2004 is the year we start thinking like a
permanent majority.”
Republican leader envisions 'a 100-year majority' | MSNBC
