John Boehner approved by Republican House, but not triumphantly

Inside the Conservative Rebellion Against John Boehner " House Speaker John Boehner barely held onto his job atop Congress’ lower chamber on Thursday. Just how close a call Boehner had is now becoming clear.
"Nine House conservatives voted for somebody other than Boehner, two abstained from voting and one voted “present.” That total of 12 Republicans who didn’t support Boehner was a stone’s throw from the required 17 to force a second ballot election – at which point several more Republican members were slated to back a competitor to Boehner’s, who would unite the party behind him or her."

NRO: An attempted rebellion against the House speaker fails, but leaves him weakened.
..." Franks couldn’t believe that a small bloc of conservative House Republicans would haphazardly plot against the speaker, especially so close to the roll call. Franks ended the conversation and found a seat. Several other members who were approached, he says, did the same. “I’m one of the most conservative guys here and I find out about this thing 15 minutes before the vote?” Franks asks, in an interview at the Capitol. “To me, it was a ridiculous miscalculation by a sincere but inept group.”"

Taegan D. Goddard's Political Wire; The GOP's Geographical Divide  " ..."there is a regional division in the party between the deep South, which contains many of the diehard House Republicans, and the Republicans from the Northeast, industrial Midwest, and the Far West. In the House vote on the fiscal cliff, Republican House members from the deep South opposed it by 83 to 10, while Republicans from the Northeast favored it by 24 to one, and those from the Far West by 17 to eight.' "

Neal Boortz's speech: If I Were The Speaker Of The House  "The way things stand now the next Speaker is only going to serve two years.  That would be because when the next Congress convenes in 2015 the Speaker of the House is going to be (gaaackkkk) Nancy Pelosi.  The entitlement electorate is expanding and Democrats are poised to take even more power.
"OK … so let’s imagine that I had been the speaker for the last week while this absurdity over the so-called fiscal cliff was playing out.  If it had been in my power to prevent it, there would have been NO tax increase.  Instead, I would have released the following statement:"....
His dissertation is lengthy, but concludes with these words that I wanted you to see:

We’re not going to follow a president focused on revenge.  We are not going to get out of the way of a Democrat party dedicated to expanding government dependency.  We’re going to lead.  We’ll need your help.  Let’s get to work.

 Rick Moran at American Thinker agrees Boehner is weakened