Posted on 09/27/2015 8:27:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Outgoing Speaker John Boehner spoke out on Face the Nation today about why he’s stepping down, and he pulled no punches in decrying “false prophets” on the Republican side.
Boehner, whose Friday resignation announcement took everyone by surprise, told John Dickerson he’s confident about preventing a government shutdown in the final few weeks of his speakership.
He said it wasn’t so much “dysfunction” in Congress that he didn’t like, but some of the disagreement. He brought up plenty conservative ideas he pushed that were “all voted against by my most conservative members because it wasn’t good enough.”
He exclaimed, “Really?!”
Boehner said that plenty of Republicans are “unrealistic” about government and recalled how the Bible warns of “false prophets” as he decried Republicans “spreading noise about how much can get done.”
Dickerson asked if he considers Ted Cruz one of those false prophets. Boehner referred him back to a fundraiser he held in Colorado in August, in which it was widely reported he called Cruz a “jackass.”
You can watch the video above, via CBS.
Wha, wha, wha...cry me a river, LOSER!!!
The GOPe always has a reason why things can’t be done.
Boner lasted too long, so we sought help like the commercial says.
TRANSLATION: "I am going to screw you so badly..."
Go f—k yourself, you alcoholic sack o’ sh*t!!
You made common cause NOT with ‘We The People’ who you were SUPPOSED to answer to, but with that traitorous Kenyan usurper and his cabal of cutthroats, and whatever it was that convinced you to sell us out, I hope it was worth it!
The long goodbye.
End the opus and just leave, you miserable POS.
If Ted Cruz is a jackass and a false prophet, then please, give us more of those. I’ll take a false prophet over a crying Cheeto any day.
So I’m not gonna watch, as if I would ever, but did he CRY?
Shut up and get lost.
I have mixed feelings about Boner resigning.Glad that he’s out of Congress,sad that he’s coming back here to Ohio.
He cocked his head a couple of times like he was going to.
About what would be expected from a man who specialized in waving the white flag before a battle had even begun, along with his counterpart in the Senate, of course.
“It’s too hard.” Man, was he projecting when he leveled that charge at conservatives.
He’s a despicable slug.
“He brought up plenty conservative ideas he pushed that were “all voted against by my most conservative members because it wasn’t good enough.”
Did he bring up any examples? Did he address their objections? Did he let amendments to come to the floor?
This is so much “woe is me, those nasty conservatives were mean to me”. So glad he is gone.
He can reach agreement with Obama but not conservative house members? What does that make him?
Yeah, what does Boner plan to do in the House between now and the end of October? Nothing good I'm sure.
What a dolt!
Well, you can always greet his return the Hungarian way. :0)
Poor John. “If you gotta go, oh, you had better go now.” Bye John. Write if you find a spine. Or stop drinking whatever alcoholic beverage makes you turn orange.
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