Right, if they did not vote for Boehner then Pelosi would win Speakership back
Not necessarily. If they ran and didn’t beat him, Boehner would have stripped them of all committees and parked them in a closet instead of an office.
Personally, I could live with the closet, but if you lose your committees you lose a great deal of your effectiveness.
Shalom, I don’t think any Republican would dare vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, so there would be more votes taken until either Boehner or the challenger dropped out. My understanding is that to win a candidate has to get a majority of the whole House.