Republican hard-liners are ‘false prophets,’ Boehner says

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Republican hard-liners are ‘false prophets,’ Boehner says

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]

1. Never thought i would agree with Boehner.

[katmondoo]

3. Oh Plezzz!!!!

[Politicalboi]

5. LOL!

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]

9. They are not all dumb. Their leaders are smart enough to know how to brainwash the entire fam.

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]

4. So why did he play alng with them

What was his response to the birthers?
Fugg the collective pack of ReTHUGs

[Solly Mack]

6. Boehner is pretending he had nothing to do with creating those "false prophets" he whines about.

He is pretending he never pandered to the very mentality he is now complaining about.

Can't have it both ways, ass-wipe.

[sailfla]

7. Be careful what you wish for

[Solly Mack]

8. They thought they could control the tea party and their other assorted extremists.

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]

10. The unforeseen consequence of gerrymandering is that any insane GOP person can get elected

to Congress by getting the party nominations.

Which is the soft underbelly that has been targeted by Koch money for the last 8 years.

[Solly Mack]

11. Yep.

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. False Prophets indeed!