Those who fail to learn from history…

GOP wants ‘lame duck’ Paul Ryan out as House Speaker right now to stop ‘backstabbing’ frenzy to replace him https://t.co/arHhE2TxKx

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 12, 2018

According to the report, a ranking GOP House member said Ryan will step down and “be gone by the end of July.”

The report, which lists House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) or House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) as Ryan’s potential replacement, said Republicans in the House fear an all-out internal war could hurt them as they face the 2018 midterms where they are already looking at an uphill battle to maintain their majority.

According to the report, a battle may already be brewing between the mainstream Republicans and the hard-right Freedom Caucus which has been a thorn in Ryan’s side.

For the rest of us whose memories are longer than that of a goldfish, what we’re viewing is the resumption of the very same civil war that threatened to break out after John of Orange found a dagger embedded between his shoulder blades. For which Ryan was thrust into the job as a “compromise” because both sides felt he was “loyal” to them.