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Speaker of the House is not a position that seems to end well in recent years.
Dennis Hastert 1999-2006 (managed to lose position without any particular humiliation but his party was resoundingly tossed)
Newt Gingrich 1995-1999 (took blame for seat losses in 1998 election and resigned both position and seat in congress)
Tom Foley 1989-1995 (unpopularly sues home state to overturn term limits and gets voted out of office; first since 1860 to be so defeated)
Jim Wright 1987-1989 (after ethics investigation he resigned the post and then his seat a month later)
Then a decade of calm:
Tip O'Neill 1977-1987 (Retired from office still holding the position)
Back to trouble:
Carl Albert 1971-1977 ("retired" after allegations of taking bribes from a lobbyist that turned out to be affiliated with South Korean intelligence)
Personally, since Sam Rayburn kicked it the position doesn't seem to have attracted America's best.
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