[Berlin_Freeper]

It’s called implosion, numb nuts.

[Dave W]

It is January 2 and the vote is in a few days and there are no alternative candidates much less any announced candidates. To dethrone a sitting Speaker takes a lot of planning (months), behind the scenes political skill and hardball. None of that has happened and it isn't going to happen this time either.

Remember back in 1998, when a group of politicians tried to dethrone Gingrich as speaker - there was a cabal of them including Boehner. They worked quietly behind the scenes trying to obtain support and it did not work.

Please tell me how this will work? Implosion is not sufficient explanation and is a cop out. It smacks of wishful fantasy again.

Can you describe the steps that need to happen in the next few days for Boehner to be shoved out of the Speaker's chair? Point A to point B...if this was October and there were active candidates running against Boehner, then it is possible. No one has laid the groundwork needed to be elected Speaker.