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Boehner’s Speaker Sacrifice
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Boehner’s Speaker Sacrifice
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Boehner’s Speaker Sacrifice

It’s time for the GOP’s rebel caucus to run its own candidate.

John Boehner’s resignation as House Speaker, and from his seat in Congress, is an act of personal sacrifice and an education in the limits of political power when government is divided. The question now is whether Republicans will reboot with new leadership, or indulge in more disunity and dysfunction.

Mr. Boehner has spent nearly five years trapped between an implacable President Obama and an uncompromising faction within his own party. Conservatives blamed him for not delivering victories no Speaker could. The Ohio...

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