>> i don't think we have the divisions the republican party has had which is why john boehner was the speaker -- mitch mcconnell said -- >> you have your own tea party now. >> we don't. and you'll see that. there's nobody in our caucus now -- and i don't think there will be any significant number tomorrow -- january being tomorrow -- where you will have people saying either my way or no way. the reason john boehner couldn't get things done -- is because he couldn't get to 218 and that's because of who was in his party -- but he wouldn't compromise -- not with us but wouldn't compromise with john boehner. we don't have anybody like that , in my view. when you look at the big issues, we've got to have consensus, whether you are talking about the affordable care act or infrastructure and we want to get that done. trade may be a more divisive issue. not divisive -- but disagreement. but i think you are going to see a constructive, united democratic party. there will be significant debate and there will be differences but i don't think you are going to cat party. -- ca tea party -- you wil

that's what -- and it wasn't called the tea party, the freedom caucus. >> yeah. >> the reason boehner couldn't get things done is because he couldn't get to 218. the reason he couldn't get to 218, he had 30 or 40 of his party that would not compromise not with us, wouldn't compromise with boehner. we don't have anybody like that, in my view. right now. we'll see if we have anybody like that. but when you look at the big issues, we really have consensus whether you're talking about affordable care act, whether you're talking about infrastructure, and we want the get that done. we'll argue about paying for it. trade may be a more divisive issue. not divisive, but disagreement within our party. but i think you're going to see a constructive, united democratic party. there'll be significant debate, there'll be differences, but i don't think you're going to see a tea party. >> we're actually going to have to skip questions. your staff has just told us you have a meeting back with leader pelosi at -- that's at 4:30 -- >> that's now a command performance, right? >> 30 seconds from now. so we

here is john boehner. >> i'm grateful to miss pelosi, mr. others for all of the work that we've done together. i hope these last five years we've done an awful lot of work together, probably more work done across the aisle over the last five years than in the 25 years that i've served in this institution. >> i can recall saying to friends that john boehner would have had more power in a way had he just said to his freedom caucus, whatever the -- the tea partiers, if you don't give me the votes, i'll ask that lady, i'll ask leader pelosi. so you either give me the votes or i'll get them from democrats. >> it is fudfunny, they are sti behind a made up rule named after a child molester. you'd think they would get smart enough to change the name of the rule. but they still enforce that. and that is the notion that it has to be a majority of your party before you put something on the floor. you know, what the speaker of the house is the only elected member of leadership in either body that is of the house, of the entire body. you have majority le

>> i actually have my notebook here, it says boehner leader without followers. i was going to use that line, and he stole it from me. >> beat you to it. >> i think what we're going to have to borrow the line from michael, i think we're going to have to see how many followers nancy pelosi has on this. i think right now they are going to be very unified, house democrats, on not giving trump any sort of border wall funding unless this is part of a really big deal that michael was just mentioning in which they get what they want in terms of dreamers' path to citizenship. otherwise, i think what you'll see is by late january, early february, they're just going to come up with another continuing resolution. keep the government funded at its current year levels, and just move on to the rest of the agenda that democrats want to get through. they don't want to spend all of -- all of the early part of their majority fighting over last year's leftover work. that's actually what speaker boehner did in 2011, and it just set a really bad tone for republicans for the rest of t

and boehner is now at infamous swamp firm, lobbying, for china. our number one global enemy.h no's job is, hiring people for top administration posts, mr. president, if you are fuming, look no further than john destefano. you should fire him tomorrow or tonight, do it with a tweet like rex tillerson. how did this guy, become president trump's political director, steppian worked for chris christie, bev that he worked for multiple establishment republicans, including joh john mccain, he hs to go. but this not just went immediate white house staff, scores of senior policymaking position in government are occupied by swamp creatures, many fighting the president's ajen athe worse is ted casinger, an adviser to steph dat state department and s been since 2008, he a never-trumper. he also a serial abuser of the revolving door. before joining lobbying firm, and mid 80s, he ran back through the revolving door in 2000s, joined commerce deputy before leaving again to join his current firm. he worked as a lobbyist on behalf of mayor energy klein, and advise russian and chinese state owne

former speak of the house john boehner is on the board of directors.k in with kevin murphy, the founder and ceo. welcome to "mad money. good to see you, sir >> good to see you, kevin. i've listened to kevin speak, and he is -- i thought at one point he was an evangelist talk to me about the involvement of some very serious politicians, who really made this, i think, by their affiliation with you, into a much more serious horse into our country. >> could not be more fortunate to have speaker boehner, and prime minister maroney a part of our board. these politicians have afforded us great access. they can make a phone call, and they get accomplished in that phone call that would have taken me six months to get done prior to that. >> do you have someone like mr. well, you're there a lot of people in new york are worried this is going to take a lot of business. >> that's why new york is on the cusp of legalizing, as well, for adult use, as is new jersey, as is illinois. so those four states alone are larger in opportunity than all of canada. and we will be

is provoking calls for antigovernment protests electoral commission is blaming the delays on the boehner virus and rebel attacks on tuesday as malcolm webb reports in the capital kinshasa. the democratic republic of congo's election is already two years overdue and the electoral commission has announced the second postponement in a week in three areas this election on direct the elections the beni pretend bowen you may be initially planned for december thirtieth or no program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific calender. the electoral commission said the three areas would have delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can see excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a bowler outbreak all three areas a key opposition strongholds. this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benny in the last four years it's not clear who is behind them the government blames a rebel group

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and then, boehner left and kevin withdrew. and we're a wreck. and outside world needed a speaker and needed more we needed a first ballot candidate. convincing that person to run for speaker. most people think of the speaker of the house as being second in line to the president and rising up to see your genius the senior deflects praise and explains inexpoliticable to national media and travels nonstop. fewer are qualified and i know and sometimes there is someone you needed someone sacrificial. no one's dream job. paul has too much class and i and his bias is towards fairness and working with people. >> i am glad you loved the country enough i am glad to hear you love the country enough to be the speaker of the house. my sadness is not if you're leaving. it's i don't know how many paul ryans there are behind you. and how many paul you're wrong about one thing. we're not equals. people like you don't come along very often. our founding fathers decided to enfaith in this experiment i have one pick. a modern day founding father or mother it would

boehner, mr. cantor, mr. mccarthy. only 78. and the rest, including the present detecter of o.m.b., -- director of o.m.b., voted to keep government shut down. so i'm not surprised that we're here. but it is sad that we are here acting so irresponsibly. if we have one duty as we come here, it is to have our government function effectively for our people. and we are failing tonight. and this is a pretense. this bill is going nowhere. the senate won't accept it. now, perhaps the senate will send it back, amended. perhaps. but, ladies and gentlemen, we are, we think, adults. let's act responsibly. defeat this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. >> mr. chairman, i'm pleased to recognize mr. poliquin of the great state of maine for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maine is recognized for two minutes. mr. poliquin: thank you, mr. chairman, very much. thank you, mr. speaker. i don't quite understand

and a great credit card boehner said yesterday that she doesn't recognize different wings within the party she wants to unite and it's fortunate for her that her main rival. called for his supporters to get behind her give her the support of the other candidate here and he's joined her leadership team so that all looks good but having said that it was in the last analysis a forty eight to fifty two split in the party does that sound familiar you know it's a bit like brick sit there are a lot of people here who could say well you know we're not really happy with the way things are going and we're going to be awkward down the line that could be a worry for a k.-k. that's i mean just stay on the line for me because merkel also spoke at the party conference yesterday let's take a listen to what she had to say. because these democrats are so in your own gods now more than ever germany's christian democratic union must show what it's made of time and they are called upon to prove that in times like these we resolutely defend our way of life our liberal values and our interests both at home

just ask john boehner. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >>> community members in law enforcement coming together give back and show a different side of police that may not all of us shine through throughout the year. >> next, a with cerebral palsy a harsh reality this holiday season when someone stole his tricycle. but when local police found out about it, they did their best to make it right. >>> a grinch tries to dampen the spirit of a menlo park boy. his tricycle was stolen a couple of weeks ago from the garage of his apartment complex. menlo park police haven't found it. but this christmas is one this 10-year-old boy won't forget. today he got a special surprise. why would someone steal his tricycle right before christmas? >> is it because they're poor? is it because they just want a bike? is it they just want to upset me? >> reporter: it's been a question on his mind since it was taken from the garage of his menlo park apartment complex. >> i was just, like, moping around kind of. >> reporter: he

in terms of the 340i7b, john boehner supporting this.ly ran was supported by a listen bra tear ian republican. >> laura: of course, they think that amphetamines should be -- >> if everything happened in a vacuum, great. if smoking a joint didn't affect people on the road, but it does. there have been moms on this show whose daughters died from a marijuana impaired drive. >> laura: how would it work on the delivery? play it out for me. you would go on kind of a, like an uber style website for or your app just for pot? or uber drivers could also themselves just deliver it? i'm not following how it would work. >> first of all, impaired driving is incredibly service. i've been to the funeral of a friend of mine who lost a step daughter to an impaired driver who was impaired with alcohol and marijuana, our laws aren't strong enough around. that it works just like uber. ubereats, you dial somebody up, you have a licensed gps tracked person who makes sure this isn't getting into the hands of kids. >> all the states that use, youth is up 45% is

boehner had the same problem -- 6/7's mr. boehner had the same problem and he decided to leave here because had he my way or no way, my way or whithe, my way or here's your hat and get out. mr. leader you have not told us a plan. we have been discussing this or literally all year. and we have a very significant substantive disagreement. and you haven't brought it to the floor to press your view and send it to the senate. we haven't had any debate on this floor on the issue. we're prepared to debate that bill. but what we're not prepared to th of the hostage 6/7 appropriation bills that remain to be done which we have agreed upon, worked on, and ready to go. all you tell me is we're prepared to do that but we have to pass all seven bills f we don't get everything we want, we're not going to do it. i understand, because you have the president of the united states saying i am proud to shut down the government. what kind of irresponsibility is that? he wants the wall. i know he wants the wall. we're a democracy, however. not an a

clashed many times with the republican establishment including people like paul ryan and speaker john boehner. so to watch him now inherit what has become the new normal of republican circles and president trump's republican party has been quite remarkable. he's very closely aligned with vice president mike pence. he's also closely aligned with peter navarro. when it comes to that last pound that i just made, that's going to weigh in terms of how the president is negotiating not just with congress as julia correctly pointed out but also unter nationally on international trade deals with china, canada, kmoeks, europe. now awith all of that, it's muc more aligned, and that's going to be a fascinating dynamic to watch. the last think i'd note, he also clashes with others. most noticeably was elizabeth warren. he showed up with doughnuts. he really gutted it for lack of a better word. that drew him a lot of praise from republican circles and a lot of criticism from people like senator elizabeth warren. >> let's listen to what then congressman mick mulvaney said ahead of the 2016 election. >> yes,

john boehner sent everybody home. he was speaker of the house at the time.went into the house chamber and passed without basically anybody there, a skeleton staff, a bill to get out of the problem that was keeping everybody here at christmas that year. there were some republicans who didn't like the fact that he did that. one would wonder, if house speaker paul ryan retiring might take a page from john boehner's playbook, get everybody out of here, approve it that way. again the key is whether or not president trump would sign the bill. connell: real quick, chad, before we let you go, the other thing is the blame game. i know the president tried to shift it back to the democratic side after saying earlier in that famous white house oval office meeting he would take the blame but republicans you're speaking to, those on the hill, are they cognizant of political ramifications or risks here? >> some are very worried they might still get blamed. there is a lot of recriminations in the house republican conference how the elections went. they didn't perform well i

this because you worked with and under, john boehner and paul ryan, do enough? rep. brat: it is a collective thing. we clearly did not do enough, the debt is going through the roof. we tried. i was on the budget committee, we had $200 billion in savings on the entitlement mandatory side last year. when it went to the senate, it went away. ago, he was0 years the champion of fiscal discipline and did a great job. it is hard right now, when you are competing against the democrats. their standard mode of business is yes to everything. we must upt year, the defense budget and that was it. of the defense budget and that was it. ssed it up $400 billion. everyone gets on our side for tax cuts. that is $150 billion. $400 billion, you did not hear any concern about the deficit on the democrat side. it is like, where do you get a fair shake? getting the message out. you bring up the senate. what people say, there are divisions between them across and republicans. bigger between the house and the senate. i don't really buy -- the senate, it is very frustrating. you need 60 votes

same way a little bit like what happened with the tarp vote in 2008 when the republican speaker hn boehnerd to vote itan dowthe markets then crashed, and three days later he brought it to a second vote and republican troops fell in line.i n't think this is the equivalent.k i the markets have already priced in a british ability to self-harm, and therefore the lesson that the markets potentially give that enable may to get this through is probably t.much more limited than t that analogy probabldoesn't hold. but the pound is in freefall, and until may finds a solution or somebody replaces her with a credible solution, it is going to keep falling. rajini: who kns when the solution will come. thanks for joining us. ed: thank you. rajini: speculation has been swirling in washington over who will take over as donald trump's next whi house chief of staff. mr. trump announced that general john kelly will be stepping down by the end of december after a tumultuous year and a half one b.ta whoeves his place will deal with the legal issues surrounding the presidency. "playboy" model karen mcdougal and

that is men believed to happen is meant to happen and we're going to make it happen very fast mr boehner also said this i will move the embassy to jerusalem it's not a question of if just a question of when president obama said the same thing remove the embassy of president bush for an oral with the embassy as well. a u.s. republican senator says he's received assurances from the president that there will be a slowdown to the withdrawal of american troops from syria senator lindsey graham says president trump is committed to defeating eisel after a meeting at the white house lindsey graham had criticized mr trump's announcement earlier this month to remove all two thousand u.s. troops from syria saying it could destabilize the region we still have some differences but i will tell you that the president is thinking long and hard about syria i don't withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interest which are to make sure that isis is destroyed they never come back their allies the kurds are protected in that iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving an

neil: by the way you are very close to major agreement at the time and john boehner at john boehner at the last second. we were very close to something that could've been historic and of course never was. >> that would've been trivial. the ryan budget with the right republican president in 2017 could've saved a long-term fiscal future of the country. now i'm terrified we were heading because trump or whatever democrat takes his place, bad news on controlling government spending. neil: no one wants to anymore. we are going to try and fit in a quick break and then the speaker paul ryan who was among the earliest to say we've got serious stuff to reform that's necessary to take in washington. he lead the charge despite all the detractors, but he also alleged that charge for tax cuts that if you are in such an integral world might've never accomplish despite all the jokes on them by the present of the dates. president trump championed all of that could've been done as a housekeeper at the time not coddle together a coalition of republicans, conservatives alike with liberals and moderates e

steve: john boehner became speaker of the house when you came in on the majority in 2010. why did he have such a difficult time managing republicans in the house? rep. coffman: i think what you had in the republicans was the rise of a conservative caucus luxury -- you talk about compromise, no deal is perfect. it's not 100% what you want it to be. i think what would happen is they would be on the sidelines. he would have something they did not agree with 100%. but the fact was there was enough of them on the sidelines, to not haveed him enough votes in hand go to the other side of the aisle and say, what do i have to do to get your vote? beginning,, at the they argued that he was a conservative enough, but they made it less conservative by not participating. i think they made governing increasingly difficult, to the point where he was forced out. steve: if you could get a do over, is there a vote you would take back? rep. coffman: i'm sure there are a number of them i would take back. i have to think about that. yes -- i think when, before my district was redrawn. immigran

couple ofked with a speakers, including john boehner, now speaker paul ryan, they both admitted it has been tough to corral the republican caucus. why is it so difficult? >> the republicans are interesting people. the more i have looked at the disposition of the two political parties, my observation is this. it may be criticize, but i think i'm onto something. there's a collective nature to the democratic party that is more cohesive. is the nature of things. is morethe democrat dna collaborative, i would argue, then the republican dna. republican dna tends to be pretty entrepreneurial, pretty suspicious of power, and isn't necessarily interested in being all that collaborative and cooperative. this is a team sport. you have to be collaborative and cooperative. part of the social media phenomenon i mentioned a couple forinutes ago makes it easy people to get on social media, or get on various outlets and say everybody i'm serving with is a sellout. there's always the temptation to make themselves look better at the expense of the group. -- leaves a leads lot of incremental jeffersonian

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nancy pelosi,, john boehner, and now paul ryan.howrole of the speaker -- important is it and how does it reflect the tone of the body or does it? rep. capuano: it is very important but not the only important job. i think america has allowed power to be concentrated too much in too few individuals. any president for wanting to accumulate and gather power under themselves. that is human nature. i do think that congress has it to occurmuch of starting with the work powers act. i think the same is true with the speakership. i think it is true across the board. i actually believe in the messiness of democracy with a lot of voices having mostly equal say and -- or comparable say. hope it is a pendulum and the pendulum swings back and forth. i think it has swung too far to a concentration of power among too few individuals. steve: you also served with senator ted kennedy. was he really the lion of the senate? rep. capuano: he certainly was. it is kind of hilarious when i hear people say -- politicians serve too long. for 40 yearserved and

who says never mystica bill and never organized election and is using delay tactic he should resign boehner is not excuses for his good nor the word just as a president is now illegitimate president is now illegal president again and the congolese people now have to take the polled lifelessly going to use article sixty four because dustin needed for the value of our country in the go ok well no it's table mission sorry akita let me let me try to just segue into another point jump of what you were saying there in bigger you heard okies are talking about the constitution of course now is there actually a mechanism by which joseph kabila could be removed from office if this election doesn't take place if the delays keep happening there isn't there is no solidified constitutional process by which that they would they would be able to remove president kabila from office and this is the main problem that people have i think i think in two thousand and eleven when he amended the constitution to change the presidential voting system he kind of ensure that this trajectory would happen he was ensurin

theone thing membered about boehner period, this is somebody who had been out of leadership, came in, and to a certain extent, believed in the committee process. ryan has been able to continue some of that so we are not as poorly served as we would be if all power was concentrated in someone who was leadership for leadership sake. >> how would you do prize -- describe the leadership caucus? what terms would you use? member so there are no sour grapes. i have been treated well. that, historically, before i got there and before republicans took control, what we call conference meetings that typicallyc five, they only went on a couple of times year. to-3-4 times a week. those are systems of lecturing to the members, telling them what leadership has decided and telling them the program and selling them on it. i think that is a bad trend to come together like that with leadership telling you. sessions,it listening but they made a decision to sell you on something that often had very little of real bubbling up overtime of the committee process. i think it is one of the reasons republicans c

steve: you've worked under a couple of speakers including john boehner and now paul ryan and they admitted it has been tough to corral the republican caucus. why? rep. roskam: republicans are interesting people. the more i have looked at the disposition of the political parties, my observation is this good this may be criticized. there is a collective nature to the democratic party that is more cohesive. things.e nature of the democrat dna is more collaborative than the republican dna. republican dna tends to be entrepreneurial, suspicious of power, and not necessarily interested in being collaborative and cooperative. this is a team sport. you have to be collaborative and cooperative. part of the social media phenomenon i mentioned a couple minutes ago makes it easy for people to get on social media worked on outlets and say everybody i am serving with is a complete sellout and there is always a temptation to make themselves look better at the expense of the group. i believe that leaves a lot of incremental wins on the table. yourroskam: -- steve: district is outside chicago and you're in

steve: did the two speakers you worked under, john boehner and paul ryan, do enough? rep. brat: it is a collective thing. we clearly did not do enough, the debt is going through the roof. we tried. i was on the budget committee, we had $200 billion in savings on the entitlement mandatory side last year. when it went to the senate, it went away. paul ryan, 10 years ago, he was the champion of fiscal discipline and did a great job. it is very hard right now when , you are competing against the democrats. their standard mode of business is yes, yes, yes to everything. you saw last year, we plussed up the defense budget and that was it. we kept the others fairly flat. to get nine senate votes they , plussed it up $400 billion. the mainstream press gets on our case about tax cuts. that is $150 billion. that is with growth and that fully pays for it. the spending of $400 billion, you did not hear any concern about the deficit on the democrat side. , on our side you pull hair out of your head. it is like, hey where do you get , a fair shake? getting the message out. steve: we wil

steve: you have been under a couple of speakers, including john boehner and paul ryan, and they have both admitted is tough to corral the republican caucus. why? rep. roskam: republicans are interesting people. the more that i look at the disposition of the two political parties, my observation is this -- and as may be criticized i think i'm onto something. there is the collective nature of the democratic party that is more cohesive. it is sort of the nature of democratnd sort of the dna is more collaborative, i would argue, then republican dna. republican dna tends to be entrepreneurial, suspicious of power, and isn't necessarily interested in being all that collaborative and cooperative. and, this is a team sport. so you have got to be collaborative and cooperative. so i think that part of the social media phenomenon i mentioned a couple of minutes for peoplees it easy to get on social media or various outlets and say, everybody i am serving with is a complete sellout. temptationways the to make themselves look better at the expense of the group. i think that leaves a lot of increm

and then boehner left. and then kevin withdrew. and we were a wreck. to the outside world we needed a speaker. to those of us in the conference we needed a lot more than that. we needed someone who was unifying. we needed someone who could between the afactions that had arisen in our conference, we needed a first-ballot candidate and we found him. the challenge was convincing that burn to -- that person to run for speaker. most people think of the speaker of the house as being second in line to the president and with the incredibly difficult job of staying awake during the state of the union. to the members, being the speaker is much more than that the speaker is the leader, it's where you take your problems. it is where you take your incredibly good ideas, if only your colleagues were wise enough to see your genius. the speaker referees fights. he shoulders the blame. he deflects the praise. he explains the inexplicable to the national media. e travels nonstop. to help colleagues, some of whom have incredibly short memories. being the speaker is hard

the one thing membered about the boehner period, this is somebody who had been out of leadership, came in, and to a certain extent, believed in the committee process. ryan has been able to continue some of that so we are not as poorly served as we would be if all power was concentrated in someone who was leadership for leadership sake. >> how would you describe the leadership caucus? what terms would you use? >> i a departing member so there are no sour grapes. i have been treated well. i'm told that, historically, before i got there and before republicans took control, what we call conference meetings that go on in ac five, they typically only went on a couple of times year. now, they go on to-3-4 times a week. those are systems of lecturing to the members, telling them what leadership has decided and telling them the program and selling them on it. i think that is a bad trend to come together like that with leadership telling you. they call it listening sessions, but they made a decision to sell you on something that often had very little of real bubbling up over time of the committe

of their electoral significance i mean that i know you said that that the government has to do the boehner and other security based is it your impression that actually if you exclude those areas it could really make a difference as a result a level see in terms of how the result is at the end of this month when congolese go to the polling booths if it's really close which is what i suspect it could be then the this could be significant what this doesn't do is instill any trust in the process and that's going to main the getting opposition recognition of the result is going to be more difficult and you mention is the sheer numbers of candidates who other new people they need to watch out who because of kingmakers it would make a difference to that the outcome well if the couple of favorite favored candidate so many out of the twenty one have no chance at all. not so people think that the former interior minister mr dari who is the mr can be so the incumbents choice may well still win but as your correspondent has just said in the for out of concession the opposition has a strong four follow

george bush and john boehner and others underestimated her act to ral rally the troops. >> i heard herer job as speaker after the end of the year, i'm almost certain she will be is serve up to donald trump whoever will be the nominee for 2020, she has a job to do there. >> i think she's the one to watch and the one we're talking about in a year. >> i predict a lot of vodka will be sold in 2020. there will be a lot of drinking going on. >> #mag pa. >> not if he puts tariffs on. >> i can never get a break. >> don't ever underestimate what he's doing in the middle of the night. i saw a republican who spoke badly and i'll take care of her. we're laughing but we are living -- >> it is how policy is made in 2018. >> i gave him sample tweets, #loser. can only help someone like me. please, donald trump, make fun of me on twitter. >> we are watching how the sausages is made. >> you have to be careful of the sausage you eat. you could end up with a very upset tummy. this is the revvie that was the eighth year. then i never thought donald trump would be president. if you told me when i started th

and then boehner left. and then kevin withdrew. and we were a wreck. to the outside world, we needed a speaker. to those of us in the conference, we needed a lot more than that. we needed someone who was unifying. we needed someone who could bridge the chasm among the different factions that had risen in our conference. we needed a first ballot candidate. and we found him. the challenge was convincing that person to run for speaker. most people think the speaker of the house is being second in withto the president and the incredibly difficult job of staying awake during the state of the union. to the members, being the speaker is much more than that. the speaker is the leader. it is where you take your problems. it is where you take your incredibly good ideas, if only your colleagues were wise enough to see your genius. the speaker referees fight, shoulders the blame, the flex the praise, -- deflects the praise, explains the inexplicable to the national media, travels nonstop to help colleagues, some of whom have incredibly short memories. being the sp