ANDREW MALCOLM: GEE, THAT FELT GOOD TO DUMP BOEHNER, MCCARTHY AS SPEAKER, BUT NOW…

Our smart colleagues on IBD’s Editorial Board argue, accurately here, that this is a great opportunity to elect a genuine conservative House leader to seriously confront the destructive runaway executive branch of liberal B. Obama.

They have much more confidence in this bickering bunch of political clowns to look beyond tonight’s Happy Hour. Like most events every election, public or within a political caucus, is about opportunity. Losing a leg is an opportunity to learn about walking again. That doesn’t make it desirable.

So, lets examine the mechanics of this “change.” Last January as part of the transition to a newly-enlarged GOP House majority, conservative members disgruntled with John Boehner’s less-than-consultative leadership style could have staged their coup. Start a new session with a new leader for the run-up to 2016.

But they didn’t. They dithered, spent 10 months grumbling and pouting. Boehner for his part was seemingly deaf in an old-fashioned speakerly way to the simmering tribal dissatisfaction. Politics would be so much simpler without people.

Just ask any politician, who takes as his personal motto Bertolt Brecht’s famous quip, “Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?”

(And of course, SMOD stands ready to dissolve all the people — and the politicians.)