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Source: Washington Post
By Mike DeBonis September 27 at 11:36 AM
Outgoing House Speaker John A. Boehner, in his first one-on-one interview since announcing his resignation last week, compared conservative hard-liners in his party to biblical "false prophets" who promise more than they can deliver.
Boehner announced Friday that he would step down Oct. 30 after nearly five years as speaker amid constant pressure from his party's right flank. Asked Sunday by host John Dickerson on a live broadcast of CBS's "Face the Nation" whether those hard-liners are "unrealistic about what can be done in government," Boehner exploded.
"Absolutely, they're unrealistic!" he said. "But, you know, the Bible says beware of false prophets, and there are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done."
Boehner referred, as he has in the past, to the ill-fated 2013 shutdown over funding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare: "This plan never had a chance," he said, but he blamed outside forces for leading Republicans down an ill-advised path: "We 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."
Dickerson followed up by asking whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), the leading proponent of the 2013 shutdown, was a "false prophet."
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Response to Eugene (Original post)
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katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Yes spend on citizens where the shit heads in the GOP spend on war. The Dems don't ruin the economy, it's you assholes who do that ALL the time. You praise Raygun like he was some great president, when he was a piece of shit. Go read history to get the real answers you seek. Bill Clinton left a surplus. Bush/Cheney went through that and put us further in debt. You Repukes are the dumbest thing since rocks.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Granted that is not any harder than throwing slop in a trough to starving piggies. From dumbass pop all the way down to dumbass son...they will pass on how much they 'wish we could go back' to the 1950s. Where white people still ruled with an iron fist and did not have to be scared of reality.
Repukes are nothing but hot air and bullshit. They know inside how much they fail or just overall suck at life. Their goal is to bring the rest of us down with them.
Fuck em.
malaise
(269,024 posts)What was his response to the birthers?
Fugg the collective pack of ReTHUGs
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)He is pretending he never pandered to the very mentality he is now complaining about.
Can't have it both ways, ass-wipe.
sailfla
(239 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Frankly, I'll wager some in the GOP thought people like Virginia Fox couldn't be elected, finding them handy as constituents and state level supporters, but never imagining them on the national stage.
Well, now the GOP frenzied base has gotten itself elected to Congress and Boehner helped put them there.
Once they were in Congress, Boehner and his ilk thought they could placate them into submission. Surprise, surprise.
They've riled up these people for decades, appealing to their hate and ignorance, and that base they were appealing to for votes is now elected members of Congress.
The GOP created this political IED, may they all blow themselves up with it.
Unfortunately, they aim to take the rest of us down with it.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)to Congress by getting the party nominations.
Which is the soft underbelly that has been targeted by Koch money for the last 8 years.