Like a bad penny, the SOB will be back.
He just needs to get by the Trump implosion before the stink gets permanent. Also, he does not want to be the minority leader.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov