Clarence Page: House GOP needs to consider the good of the nation

As their frustrated manager Casey Stengel famously said during the 1962 debut of the New York Mets, “Can’t anyone here play this game?” Frustrated House Republicans were sounding a lot like Stengel as they found their efforts to elect a speaker were stalemated by fellow members of their own hard-won majority. I usually try to avoid the obvious temptations to use sports metaphors to describe the serious work of running our nation’s government. That’s especially important now, at a time of two wars and a looming showdown over a possible...