But one influential conservative spending group is already pledging to oppose any speaker candidate who vows to change the rule. “Club for Growth will oppose any candidate for Speaker of the House who supports a return to Pelosi’s rules, especially her rule change against vacating the chair which stood for more than 200 years,” Club for Growth president David McIntosh said in a social-media statement Thursday evening. “The House was meant to act as a democratic body, not at the whims of one person’s self-interested agenda.”

It’s unclear whether McIntosh’s statement will translate into a formal key vote alert that will affect members’ Club for Growth congressional scorecards. A key vote alert could make this speakership calculation tricky for members who want to stay in the group’s good graces ahead of 2024.

[The last line of that statement is a monument to irony, considering what happened this week. The vote within the caucus was 210-8, and yet one man’s whim undid a democratic election of a House speaker for the first time in history. How has this week contributed to the Club for Growth agenda, anyway? — Ed]