Boehner’s Resignation Likely Averts a Shutdown

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “sacrificed his job on Friday — a wrenching decision that he determined was the only way to spare the country the trauma of yet another government shutdown,” the Washington Post reports.

“While the shutdown crisis may be averted for now, the forces of dysfunction that drove Boehner to quit remain and will likely bedevil the next speaker in similar ways.”