What Newt and the pubbies didn't realize, was how traumatic the loss of the House was to all demonRATs and how rough they would get for revenge.
The RATs controlled the House for over 40 years and had become so used to the power and corruption, that it's loss was beyond belief.
By the same token, many of the newly elected pubbies were rinos and on the take {just like the demonRATs} and so they were easy to blackmail and publicly shame.
They threw Newt under the bus to save their own corrupt asses.
Here is a shocker:
POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT.