The House conservatives who mounted a very public, but doomed-to-fail bid to oust House speaker John Boehner are already paying the price.
After overcoming dissenters in his own party, Boehner won the speakership for a third term on Tuesday and lost little time exacting revenge. By Tuesday evening two Florida Republicans who had opposed him – Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent — had lost their seats on the powerful House Rules Committee.
And the roiling is going to continue for some time, according to Politico.
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