In a move surprising enough to serve as a House of Cards plot twist, Speaker John Boehner announced he would step down and leave Congress at the end of October.

+ WaPo: “Almost since the day he became speaker … Boehner had been caught betwixt and between.”

+ Robert Costa: What John Boehner told me the night before he said he was quitting.

+ And after a career of public crying and amazing facial contortions, Boehner is going out with one of his best combinations of both.