The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on a new speaker this week, and for a hot District of Columbia minute it looked like that person was going to be Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, a longtime member of Republican caucus leadership who defeated Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan in an internal vote behind closed doors on Tuesday to become the party’s presumptive nominee. But, as we have all been reminded many times this year, a speaker has to win a majority vote of the whole House, on the House floor, in order to take office. Given the chamber’s current partisan...