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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I think John’s going to end up in a cushy job at the US Chamber of Commerce.
Looks like Cruz was right again.
He got himself reelected in the 2010 and 2014 landslide election victories by promising to work relentlessly to undo ALL of the phony Soetoro’s illegal and unconstitutional acts and then proceeded to do everything the illegitimate POSOTUS wanted to do. No wonder the two leading Republican candidates are not politicians.
traitor indeed, what can be done to stop him?
Rules committee is Pete Sessions Rino turncoat from next district over in Texas.
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