When it comes to the nuts in the Republican Party, the GOP has given up its asylum.
As Representative Peter King of New York put it regarding Boehner’s bowing out,
“I think it signals that crazies have taken over the party. Taken over the party that you can remove a Speaker of the House who’s second in line to be president, a constitutional officer, in the middle of his term with no allegations of impropriety, a person who’s honest and doing his job.
This has never happened before in our country.”
And so, instead of the natural relationship of the elephant to the peanut, the natural order has been abandoned, and the nuts have taken over the party.