The election of Boehner WAS a “Republican freak show”. They were given an unprecedented majority in the HOR with one of the primary reasons being to get rid of him as Speaker!
Every one of the spineless Republican representatives here in Georgia voted for this traitor, despite many pleas against it from their constituents. It is like talking to a fence post out in a pasture.
They all really do just say what they say (and promise)to get elected. Are they drugging the water up there in the Capitol Building?
That’s not how Milbank meant it.