Gotta’ start somewhere, and Boehner has proven to be untrustworthy and unreliable as Speaker (at least to Repubs - Dems love him!). Removing Boehner would really scare a lot of RINOs and start the ball rolling to replace the traitors.
Seriously? I think Boehner is not the one to blame here, he clearly got dragged to this unvoluntarily, but once he was in it I think he did the best he could with a losing hand.
The real traitors here, were the Senate Republicans, Boehner knew they weren’t going to hold their ground from the get go, and if they weren’t going to he had no win.
No one was going to let the US truly default over political theater.