Speaker of the House: The Plum Job No Sane Politician Wants
Any Republican who thinks John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy are too conciliatory and too focused on compromise rather than conservative principles is not going to be satisfied until they find a Speaker who will stand on the House floor stick his fingers in his ears and keep repeating “Repeal Obamacare and Defund Planned Parenthood,” until he passes out. As long as the House Freedom Caucus, the far right of the Republican congressional delegation, continues to exercise de facto veto power over who becomes Speaker, there is a good chance the next Speaker will, perhaps only metaphorically speaking, do precisely that.
