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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives to speak at a news conference announcing his resignation on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. (Jacquelyn Martin, AP )
WASHINGTON — Departing House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday the conservative critics who drove him from office are “false prophets” who are “absolutely … unrealistic” about what the House could achieve.
Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Friday that he will step down from the speakership and leave the House at the end of October, largely because he wanted to spare his colleagues having to vote on a resolution offered by conservatives to kick him out of the chair.
Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, Boehner said his critics never had a strategy to achieve their legislative goals.
“The Bible says beware of false prophets. There are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done,” Boehner said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“I mean, this whole idea that we are going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 – this plan never had a chance.”
Boehner warned, <span style="color: Red;">*</span>“We’ve got groups here in town, members of the House and Senate here in town, who whip people into a frenzy believing that they can accomplish things that they know — they know! — <span style="color: Red;">*</span>are never gonna happen.”
He defended his record, saying he achieved “the largest deficit reduction deal in the history of the country” and the first major entitlement reforms in two decades — “all done over the last 4 1/2 years with a Democrat president and all voted against by my most conservative members because it wasn’t good enough. Really!?”
Conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus have been arguing for several months that Boehner should pass a federal budget that eliminates funding for Planned Parenthood, even if it means allowing the federal government to shut down at the end of the month because the president would not sign it.
Boehner has allowed votes on defunding the organization, but is teeing up a budget bill for votes next week that does not include that language.
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