Speaker John Boehner’s resignation may have been prompted by a new fight over funding Planned Parenthood, but it was decades in the making.
His announcement Friday is a result of the House Republican caucus’s transformation into a far more conservative and Southern body than it was a generation ago. It’s a shift that will most likely define the House for the foreseeable future, although it is less important in presidential primary politics than it is in Congress. CONT.
Nate Cohn, New York Times