I think it would be worth a discussion, to see what the Tea Party insurgents could do, uniting to deny Boehner the Speakership in January and voting with liberal dissident Democrats who voted against Cromnibus to name a speaker who is part of neither Party establishment -- No Pelosis, no Boehner, no Cantor-wannabes (yes, I know Cantor's gone, happily primaried).
Well, how 'bout it? How' bout running Congress with a "weak" Speaker and no effectual Party leadership for a while?
I'm betting it would look and function a lot more like the Congress Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams knew in the Jacksonian era, before kingpins and sugar trusts and political money from sleazy millionaires.
Abraham Lincoln (and Jefferson Davis) were railroad lawyers.