Posted on 09/27/2015 1:52:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* Boehner calls some conservatives "unrealistic"
* Plans to pass government funding bill with Democratic support
* Says he could have survived a vote to oust him
House Speaker John Boehner isn’t going out quietly.
The outgoing and embattled speaker had choice words Sunday for his foes inside and outside of Congress and signaled that he intends to be very much in charge until he relinquishes the speaker’s gavel under pressure at the end of October.
Boehner took aim at Republican rebels in the House of Representatives and unnamed conservative and tea party groups that agitated for his departure.
He blasted them as “false prophets” who “whip people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they know, they know, they are never going to happen.”
“They’re unrealistic,” the Ohio Republican said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean this whole notion that we’re going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 – this plan never had a chance.”
When asked if the “false prophets” included Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Boehner said, “you can pick out a lot of names. I’ll let you choose them.”
Boehner then referred to comments he made at a Colorado fundraiser where the speaker called Cruz a “jackass.” Cruz earned Boehner’s ire when for advising House Republican conservatives....
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Maybe the people he betrayed will have some input into how long this distinction will last. Maybe someone will put some 0bamacare in his stocking.
He’ll have more time to drink. If it ends with him in an early grave, I won’t shed tears for him. He’s a traitor to his country and to the people who voted for him.
Orange is the product of Red & Yellow, right?
Liberals with gold plated health plans have a pretty good life expectancy record.
No, no. Don't do that.
(It might break the stairs. That would be bad.)
Boner proves to us what a pr:k he has always been.
Yes, it’s a good thing boehner did the honorable this friday by telling himself, “I’m fired!”
John ‘The Bender’ Boehner
This differs from his entire time as H.o.R. Speaker, how?
I certainly wish no ill to his stairs, but he could pull a Joseph Fourier.
No offense to Mssr. Fourier, his transforms helped my signals analysis.
The GOP is really doing everything in their power to cause me to abandon them. What did WE do that was so bad? Ask them to live up to their campaign promises? Boehner can go to hell.
Yes he told everyone in technicolor exactly what he is and intends to. A complete pos.
Boehner was content to see Congress get an exemption from the Obamacare and keep their deluxe health coverage for life by the way. Sickening. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out JB.
Bonehead is a real piece of garbage. Most of us knew this jackass was a flaming communists Democrat and never should have had a R behind his name. He will go down in history as the worst speaker and just as bad as a terrorists.
No, the conservative members of Congress who voted Boehner as Speaker. Blame them. Newt hasn’t been in Congress in 16 years.
He'll get kicked out of there too.
No, the conservative members of Congress who voted Boehner as Speaker. Blame them. Newt hasn’t been in Congress in 16 years.
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