Instead of wielding power they are yielding power.
Who do they think they were elected to represent? Their constituents or Preezy Urkel?
They wield a lot of power...against conservatives. The question is why do conservatives keep voting for them? The answer goes back to the amount of power they wield.
There are conservative Republicans, but they’re really really stupid, naive, or dangerously out of touch. I have a relative who works for a conservative US congressman. He just got elected in November. My relative said, “Congressman ____ told me only bills that Boehner and McCarthy support get passed.” He said it like it was some revelation. I said, “I could have told him that back in January before he voted for Boehner as speaker.”