Today, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced he will retire from Congress at the end of October, noting that “that prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable damage to the institution.” AEI political scholars offer their thoughts on Speaker Boehner’s retirement and what it means for his successor:
Visiting Fellow and senior editor for National Review Ramesh Ponnuru:
While many factors went into Boehner’s decision, the one that will weigh most heavily on his successor is the difficulty of keeping House Republicans, and especially their restive right, unified. Whoever succeeds him is going to have a devil of a time at that task, and have before him the example of a Speaker who quit in part because of its difficulty.
Resident Scholar Norm Ornstein:
Three years ago, Tom Mann and I wrote about the sharp move to the radical right by the Republican Party in Congress, creating an insurgent outlier, in “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” John Boehner tried to manage an increasingly unruly cohort– one that found the longstanding right wing caucus, the Republican Study Committee too cautious and founded the Freedom Caucus to outflank it on the right– but found it harder and harder, especially as the responsibilities of being in the majority in both houses of Congress weighed more heavily. Now he has made clear that it can’t be managed.
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