![]() ![]() But the House disruption has been caused by a smaller band of hardline conservative party members who want to make a clean break with the status quo, as represented by the too-accommodating Boehner. So far, it has been unable to dispel the nightmare of Donald Trump as the leader in the polls, and now the process of choosing a replacement for resigned Speaker John Boehner is becoming a fiasco.Ĭhoosing the Republican presidential nominee remains ultimately in the hands of state primary and caucus voters. The same query is appropriate today for the Republican Party, which has been tying itself in knots in both its quest for a 2016 presidential nominee and for a new speaker of the House of Representatives. ![]() Fifty-three years ago, legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel famously asked of his New York Mets, who were in the process of losing 120 of its 160 contests: "Can't anybody here play this game?" ![]()
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