Congress Loses Its Boehner
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.