We won’t have John Boehner to show off his tears for much longer.
No doubt House Republicans will elect someone to be their new speaker now that Ohio Rep. John Boehner is resigning at the end of October. But to call the house speakership with the current radical GOP membership a “thankless job” is like calling a tornado a gentle breeze.
Boehner stunned the political world by announcing — seemingly out of nowhere — that he was calling it quits. He said publicly that he had made the decision “just this morning” after praying about it, but he’s been fighting the Tea Party-led House conservatives since he took over as speaker after the 2010 election. There have been rumblings about ousting Boehner for years, and the Ohio Republican probably figured that the job just wasn’t worth it anymore. Time to take his tanning bed and go home.