Someone like that deserves to be shamed. Is this the only vote that can “set him in a corner with a dunce cap”?
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.