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Seems some folks here are willing to hold their breaths until Nancy Pelosi is speaker.

I'm starting to believe it wouldn't make that much of a difference. Plus she has balls.

Ironically, it would actually be better. True opposition has to be unified, and consistent, in order to be effective. What non-conservative Republicans do is that they make effective opposition impossible.

It reminds me of a baseball story (I know it was in a Boswell book, but I don't remember the players involved). A fan was despondent over the team's performance, and was going through the various players' roles. When it came to the 3rd basemen, the fan stated that he wasn't a problem (he was a good fielder, and mediocre hitter). In one sense, the fan was correct. But Boswell disagreed with him vehemently. The problem was that he was just good enough that nobody wanted to replace him, but that he wasn't good enough to make a difference. Even though he was one of the better players on the team, he actually was the underlying problem. Every year, they put him out there, not accepting that at certain positions (3rd base being one of them), just being good enough isn't acceptable, if your goal is to actually be successful.

Boswell correctly came to the conclusion that the team would have been better off with a scrub at 3rd base. I have come to the similar conclusion that we might actually be better off with Pelosi as speaker (with the one, huge, caveat that this would only be true if the establishment Republicans were defeated, either in the primaries or the general).