[Prokopton]

So because he couldn't be speaker any more he told the people who had just reelected him to get screwed and quit the House? Because it would not be easy with the competing factions in the Republican Party?

Wow, what a fighter!

[kickonly88]

Yup. Even Nancy Pelosi stuck around after losing the speaker position.

[Servant of the Cross]

The reason he resigned, rather, was that he felt he would be ineffective if he won. “I think he saw the controversy that he was getting from charges by the Left, the fact that people were upset with his leadership style, and I think he just saw that he wasn’t going to be effective.”

Wow, what a leader who cares more about country than self!