Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Early last week, Rep. Jim Jordan’s odds of becoming House speaker looked pretty good. The right-wing Ohio Republican certainly had intraparty detractors, but Jordan and his allies appeared confident, at least briefly, that the votes would come together when it counted. We now know, of course, that those hopes were misguided, and Jordan failed.
Sure, several House Republicans from competitive districts toed the party line and voted for Jordan — even after saying they wouldn’t — but many did not, and their opposition to their party’s nominee kept the gavel out of the hands of the right-wing House Judiciary Committee chairman’s hands. I’ll confess that I was surprised. In fact, I privately predicted that Jordan would succeed precisely because I expected GOP members from competitive districts to succumb to partisan pressure.
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