“........Boehner can survive the discontent that the tea party and the more conservative element of the Republican Party has”.....
ONLY if they let him “survive”. Keep the heat on him as well.
I have always said that the advantage Bohner has is that no-one wants his job, he's nothing but a whipping boy who gets no respect from anyone. I call him ‘the goat’.
Now when Pelosi had the speakership 2009 to 2010 she had real power, none of them challenged her and she got her votes.