If conservatives will be the death of the GOP, as all in the leftist media have been telling us for years, then why would the democrats try to help Boehner? (Rhetorical, of course)
I would think the Dems would want a 2015 version of Newt Gingrich, someone they can demonize in the run-up to the 2016 election, rather than a milquetoast Boehner. They already have their Cromnibus with Obamacare funded and they know DHS will get funded, so they don't need Boehner to manipulate behind the scenes to give them what they want. Why wouldn't they want a Louie Gohmert as speaker, to demonize on the way to moving Hillary! or Warren! or Bernie! into the White House?