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.
“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.”
That’s the first big mistake a lot of these clowns make, their idea of success is so different than ours that they never achieve success yet they spout and brag about it.
What a jerk traitor. Bashes his own party while kneepadding Obama and Dems.
A perfect example of why term limits are needed and the power of central governments must be reigned in
FUJB
Ya take the most flak is when you’re over the target.
Drunken turd.
Hankie, bar napkin... same/same.
Well one plan is working, good bye John Boy, don’t let the door hit you in your ass on the way out, you fraud.
I’d call Boehner a surrender monkey but it would be an insult to surrender monkeys everywhere......even the French!
Maybe he can tell us about his plans that DID work
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.
Boehner is right. The votes aren’t there. Obama was reelected. Conservs are a minority. Have the vote and make your impotence headline. He knows the reality and doesnt want more repub humiliaton. But, lets have at it. Humility comes from humiliation and pbama smiling real big is ok, the rapist can grin, the raped will not stop the fight. Cruz will give us the humility we apparently still need for some reason.
Whut?
Imagine a baseball team that never swings, and hopes to walk their way to victory.
-PJ
Way way back when Boehner was just one of the guys -— the 7 had a name for themselves -— and he would get mouthy and bold but alcohol and power sure made him a worthless pussy subject to blackmail.
He says quit trying to fight, Boehner is correct.
Every poll shows Conservatives are a majority and liberals are minority. So I do not know where yo got your information.
They compromised him hard on something. You can see the expression and body language demonstrate how much he hates being the Administration’s dog, yet he fetches when told to fetch and rolls over when told to roll over. I think someone more or less on our side got the same information, or its equivalent. They own him on something.
Onyx!
Leave this bar of Dial in your mouth for a full hour!
Well, “the jackass” won as far as who stays & who goes.
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