In a story about how allies of House Speaker John Boehner are planning a "crackdown" on anyone from the tea party who dares vote against re-electing him as speaker if he runs again after the 2014 midterms, Politico's Jake Sherman
reports:
This time, Boehner’s allies are talking, too. They say they aren’t going to be bullied by a small pocket on the right.
Hooray! At long last, this is the leadership we've been waiting for. Because after shutting down the government, creating a special committee to investigate a Twitter hashtag, voting fifty million times to repeal Obamacare, refusing to extend emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, blocking immigration reform, voting to restrict legal abortions, derailing equal pay legislation, and refusing to allow the Employment Non-Discrimination Act from even coming up for a vote, Republicans have finally decided they won't be bullied around by the far right.
Phew! This really changes everything.