Sorry, John Boehner. It IS about you.
You're not just a party leader anymore. You are Speaker of the House of Representatives, whether we like it or not (and most of us, including me, don't). You hold a constitutional office, and a responsibility not only to every member of the House, but to every American as well.
You don't have the option of hiding behind an arbitrary "rule" that ensures minority government hiding behind "a majority of the majority." You can no longer pretend that allowing committee chairs to cherry-pick issues and subpoena opponents to death is "deliberative." You can no longer let the inmates run the asylum, and pretend it's an AMA convention. This country has a mountain of pressing national business, and it can't be solved simply by repealing laws, a standard even you can't meet.
If you can't face the fact that you've been a failure, the American people will help you to face it next year, gerrymandering or no. And, in the spirit of bipartisanship, when you'll need to drown yourself in bourbon, I'll be the one who's buying.
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