Posted on 08/27/2015 3:44:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Juicy, but I don’t know how scandalized we should be at learning that Boehner holds a view we all assumed he held in the first place. Next we’ll find out that Mitch McConnell thinks Cruz is a jackass too.
This isn’t the first time he’s been accused of saying something privately to fundraisers that he wouldn’t dare dream of saying publicly. Remember when he allegedly told a bunch of donor-class amnesty fans that he was “hellbent” on passing comprehensive immigration reform in 2014? Two months later Dave Brat upset Eric Cantor in their House primary by running hard against illegal immigration. Alas, the elusive dream of more cheap labor for corporate America had to be postponed again.
At a Steamboat Springs event for GOP Rep. Scott Tipton, the Ohio Republican quipped that he likes how Cruz’s presidential campaign keeps “that jackass” out of Washington, and from telling Boehner how to do his job…
“I don’t think it’s terribly speaker-like, and I think it kind of goes against everything that Reagan ever said about disparaging Republicans,” said Ed MacArthur, the president of Native Excavating, who attended the fundraiser…
Another Steamboat Springs resident confirmed Boehner’s remark: “I about fell on the floor.”
“To build coalitions to work together in Washington, D.C., you don’t start it out by calling your colleague a ‘jackass,’” she said.
Turns out the GOP leadership hates grassroots favorites just as much as the grassroots hates the GOP leadership. Dare we assume that Boehner also holds Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh in low regard?
Two things here. One: It’s going to be high-larious watching Boehner and McConnell react next spring if Ben Domenech and I are right and Ted Cruz emerges from the smoke as the GOP’s nominee. I think Boehner could tolerate President Hillary just fine, but the reality of President Cruz might send him into retirement. If you’re a Boehner-hater, there’s another reason to back Cruz in the primaries. Two: Arguably the worst thing about this is its lack of strategic foresight, not the insult itself. An attack on Cruz from the seat of establishment power will only help him among populist voters. If this blows up in media, it may even galvanize conservative support in the House for another crack at Mark Meadows’s resolution to remove Boehner as Speaker, a measure that’d be unlikely to succeed but could embarrass Boehner depending upon how many votes it draws. How is it worth taking a personal shot at Cruz when that’s the price? No wonder this guy routinely gets rolled by Obama and Reid.
I think that answers my question...
Fiorina is NOT a conservative.
She does a good job laying into Hillary, but Fiorina believes in man made global warming and praised the muslims in a speech a few weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
She also shared a stage with Bill Clinton as part of his “Global Initiative.” No thanks.
Badge of Honor
Boehner is the weakest Speaker of the House ever, even more than the corrupt Dennis Hastert. These bastards got a huge landslide and mandate, for what?
Excellent graphic
Telling us all who he and McConnell really are
Everyone in the party that sits on their asses and says nothing about boner calling Cruz a jackass are themselves just as guilty of calling him a jackass.
If I were to type the name I call Boehner, I’d be booted out of here.
Carly supported Hillary. Trump donated to the Clinton Foundation. Why do you trust Carly and not Trump? Carly wants 0care to stay.
Cruz may very well be a jackass but he doesn’t cry like a baby at his own press conference.
I am sort of tired of seeing a grown man cry on CNN.
The English language does not contain enough bad words to describe how I feel about Boehner.
He is the absolute epitome of everything this country’s founders wished to avoid.
That pic appears to be of the ugliest woman I think I have ever seen
BooHoo Boehner has a lot of nerve calling Cruz a jackass. Boehner is nothing but a Hussein sycophant, and a disgusting piece of crap.
OH-8 really needs to Cantorize this crying spray-tanned drunk.
What is wrong with you people?
Boehner and his leadership gang have changed a historic republican majority house to a rubber stamp for the democrat agenda.
Fiorina is on board The Cheap Labor Express.
A woman, you say? /wink
This was said by the crying tangerine.
BTTT
It's beyond time!!!
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