With Mike Johnson set as speaker, Republicans can must get on to governing

OK: House Republicans managed to re-elect Mike Johnson as speaker on the first ballot — albeit with a delay to wrangle the last two votes.Now it’s on to governing.The vote represents progress over the last Congress, when it took five days to install Kevin McCarthy as speaker and then, after GOP rebels took his head, three weeks to replace him.The clear difference: President-elect Donald Trump’s endorsement, including some final arm-twisting calls.And Trump in the White House plus the Republican majority in the Senate will ease many of the GOP tensions that bedeviled the House these last two years: Not least, it means at least a partial return to “regular order” so that major spending bills get signed into law outside of those obscene “omnibus” Christmas trees.Governing still won’t be easy: The Biden years leave America needing a cleanup in every aisle, and while most Democrats aren’t signaling all-out #Resistance this time ’round, none are rushing to pick up mops to help out.But at least the transition is now moving full-steam ahead, and Mike Johnson is in place to herd the House cats....