Posted on 10/30/2015 12:16:44 PM PDT by bestintxas
Now-former House Speaker John Boehner says that he came to Washington to fight for a smaller, less costly and more accountable government, and now that he's leaving the House, that still hasn't happened.
"I began to realize over the years there is no winning this fight," Boehner said in an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer on Thursday, just after his replacement, Paul Ryan, took the gavel. The fight has been going on for over 200 years in Washington, he told Hemmer in the interview, which aired on Friday on the network's "America's Newsroom" program, and "it will be a constant struggle over how big should Washington be, how much should it take?"
Boehner said his biggest regret for the time he was speaker was the failure to reach the so-called "Grand Bargain," in 2012, which would have been an agreement with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to curb spending while reducing the national debt and avoiding sequestration.
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His biggest triumph was focusing Democrats to vote as one, such as the unanimous yeah vote by Democrats he arranged earlier this week to pass the budget/
GEE...says one of the big spenders....
You never win a battle you aren’t willing to fight to the death. Dems never stop fighting.
CRUZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a total loser. I hope he soon dies a horrible, painful death.
His fake, half-hearted “defense” of DOMA will never be forgiven.
That’s rich.
Boner and his Uniparty are the REASON Government always grows.
A LOT can happen between now and never!
I guess it's a good thing he was not one of our founding fathers, or we might very well still be flying the Union Jack in our capital.
I began to realize over the years there is no winning this fight...
Can anyone here imagine those words coming out of George Washington's mouth? Or James Madison's, or Patrick Henry's, or Samuel Adam's? Ever?
Yeah, me meither.
“I began to realize over the years there is no winning this fight...”
So, like Benedict Arnold, I gave up and became a democrat. Did someone say “drink”?
Boehner & McConnell just roll ever and piss themselves.
The Republican Party is the "Can't Do That" party.
Cruz & Lee are the only two Conservatives I've seen that will fight for their constituents.
I despise Boehner, but really he is saying the same thing as you. That there will always be leftists fighting for more government and control, so it is a perpetual struggle, not a fight you can win and walk away from.
Good riddance to “Agent Orange”...
Thank-you Boner for this firm endorsement of the dire need for a Convention of States amendments convention to limit the feral govt, ASAP.
Proof in the pudding.
“If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth programme, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs.
Communism or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”
- Gary Allen
Don’t blame him - he’s correct on this one point.
big government has a life of its own. Its like arguing with weeds not to grow.
Look to our financial system for reasons - and solutions.
Well you do have to actually put up a fight John. Crying jags don’t cut govt.
Dems usually vote as one. If there had been a conservative speaker of the House the Dens would have voted as one even more so. That's not the problem. We need a speaker that will rally Republicans around conservative ideas.
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