Posted on 09/28/2015 8:37:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared on one Sunday show — CBS’ “Face the Nation” — after his Friday surprise announcement that he’d be resigning from Congress in about a month.
And Boehner used the opportunity to make another firm announcement: There will be no government shutdown this week, despite the efforts of some conservatives to block Planned Parenthood funding.
“The Senate is expected to pass a continuing resolution [this] week. The House will take up the Senate bill. We will also take up a select committee to investigate these horrific videos that we have seen from abortion clinics in several states that really raise questions about the use of federal funds and raise questions about aborted fetuses that are born alive,” he said.
“I have got another 30 days to be speaker. And I’m going to make the same decisions the same way I have over the last four-and-a-half years to make sure that we’re passing conservative legislation that is good for the country.”
Boehner said he doesn’t “want to leave my successor a dirty barn; I want to clean the barn up a little bit before the next person gets there.”
But he made clear that the GOP caucus is in “disagreement,” not “dysfunction.”
“I was planning on leaving at the end of last year. When my friend Eric Cantor lost his primary election in July of last year, it was clear to me that I just couldn’t leave, that I had to provide a transition for the next leaders,” he said.
“I planned on serving through this year. And on November 17, I was going to make an announcement. And on Thursday evening, and Friday morning, I looked up and went, why do I want to put my colleagues through this, when I’m going to make the same announcement six weeks from now? Why do I want to put the institution through this? And so it was the right decision. Frankly, I thought we handled it the right way.”
Boehner was facing a resolution from House conservatives demanding that he vacate the Speaker’s chair.
“Winning that vote was never an issue. I was going to get the overwhelming numbers of — I would have gotten 400 votes probably. But why do I want to make my members, Republican members, walk the plank? Because they’re going to get criticized at home by some who think that we ought to be more aggressive,” he said.
He stressed that “our founders didn’t want some parliamentary system where, if you won the majority, you got to do whatever you wanted.”
“They wanted this long, slow process. And so change comes slowly, and obviously too slowly for some.”
On his critics who say the GOP majority can and should shake up things more quickly, Boehner cautioned that “the Bible says beware of false prophets. ”
“And there are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean, this whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had chance,” he said. “But over the course of the August recess in 2013, and the course of September, lot of my Republican colleagues who knew it was a fool’s errand really they were getting all this pressure from home to do this. And so we have got groups here in town, members of the House and Senate here in town who whip people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they know, they know are never going to happen.”
Asked for his opinion of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Boehner replied, “I’ll refer you to my remark at a fund-raiser I made in August in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.”
That was: Boehner telling attendees that Cruz’s presidential campaign had a silver lining because it kept “that jackassR#8221; out of Washington and on the road.
“I’m referring to that same remark,” Boehner confirmed Sunday.
This is rich coming from Boehner, who has not accomplished anything in the last four years, except give Obama everything on a silver platter.
Boenher reaches climax and spews his true beliefs down the cheek of the American people.
Whot’s this Boehner guy? I think I see him at the neighborhood bar sometimes.
Rambles about how he used to be a big shot.
Boehner is too fixated on protecting Obama from having to use his veto power.
The fact that the most radical marxist we’ve ever had in office has only vetoed 4 pieces of legislation is a problem for me.
Is boehner claiming that his plan has somehow been successful? I don’t think his definition of success matches up historically with any moderately competent leader of any type of organization.
Of course, we learned a little bit about his definition of success and protecting the “institution”. Even by his own definition he’s a complete failure as Congress has historically awful ratings. So much for protecting institution.
RE: Whot’s this Boehner guy? I think I see him at the neighborhood bar sometimes.
Yep, he’s the guy who holds a hankie over his eyes and his face.
I did see the first Republican bumper sticker for president yesterday. It was a Ben Carson sticker.
You don’t know who Boehner is?!? He’s the biggest and most emotionally unstable of the Ooompa Loompas. Seriously, everyone knows that. At the very least, you should be aware that he’s a drunk, a vicious bastard, and a major league a-hole.
lol
I have my “Silent Majority for Trump” sticker in my back window.....Love it!!!!
Boehner, that staunch, devout Catholic. Didn’t the Pope tell him what happens to those who fund the slaughter of just-born live infants for their body parts?
Now, why was it again that you were forced to resign, JB?
RE: Is boehner claiming that his plan has somehow been successful?
His “success” ( note the quotes ) was actually the shutdown that forced both sides to come to the table on a budget that actually cut the deficit from $1.5 trillion to $500 billion today.
Other than that, all we have are continuing resolutions with no budget in sight.
There used to be a time when a budget deficit of $400 Billion would be cause for alarm. Now a hundred billion above that is considered no big deal.
THAT is “success” according to Boehner apologists.
As you can see...he learned a lot from the Pope’s visit ;)
“Ooo I Caan’t. Its too haaard”
Boehner...just leave.
Thanks, 1217Chic. Cool. HOORAY Trump. (sheesh I posted my comment on the wrong thread)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3342075/posts
Going down with all guns blazing, whether directed at a target or not.
Makes a spectacular crash and burn.
I was joking :) But you described him pretty well.
Worthless POG
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