Because all the dems and just enough of his republican cronies support him to negate the truly conservative republicans vote. Since they have no chance of replacing him as speaker, they aquiesce and vote for him.Beiruty wrote:The 64K question, why in the world we elect a Dems as a speaker when we have a super majority?
Too much power resides with the speaker. Straus and his cronies are prime examples of why we need term limits. His war chest and list of wealthy crony supporters that have a vested interest in him remaining in power is vast.