I know some Corner readers — who live in most of the country that is not the Beltway — hate these House-leadership-race watches. It’s so inside baseball.

We actually hate them too. At least I do. There are actually very many good people on the Hill who are honest-to-goodness true believing, Ronald Reagan-admiring, National Review-reading conservatives. Some of them even members! A lot of them work for the players vying for these races. So many of them are people you’d want in House leadership office.

Anyway, it’s a great problem to have. But it makes for tough inside baseball buzzing. Of course, that’s politics. But for all the problems, there’s a good crowd of good people there on the Hill who want conservatism to be the minority rule (well, now that it has to be the minority) for these next two years.