Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. He won and to the victor goes the spoils. If he flagships and issue they could do another coupe there, but smart Speakers don’t flagship for exactly that reason. This is power politics, it’s a game, with well defined rules, and like him or not Boehner is very good at playing it. And he just won a significant victory. There’s a strong symbolic message in pulling people out of the rules committee.
I thought that was the reason for this last election to stop the establishment in dc? To stop this stupid game playing and give the power back to we the people? It is these games that must be stopped. This is why working to take over the party will not work. It looks like 3rd party or nothing.
Maybe that’s what some people thought. But you don’t stop the establishment by giving it a new set of people to push around.
Unfortunately for a 3rd party unless they can actually get around 20% of the seats they’re just more people to get pushed around. The rules of congress are very carefully constructed to divide the chamber into the majority party and the minority party and anybody else is just out of luck. If they can put together a big enough block to actually start effecting the passage of legislation, then they got something, but without that they’re just audience sitting on stage.
“It looks like 3rd party or nothing.”
The uniparty has been marginalizing upstart competitors for over 150 years. They’re very, very good at it. Which believe it or not could be good news for us.
Partisan politics in the US is a game of three-card monte where the uniparty runs the game and controls the rules. The only way to win is not to play. Which is really what they fear; what if the uniparty had their petty intrigues and nobody participated and did everything they could to avoid the impacts?