John Boehner Quotes
It got to the point where I had to sneak into the White House
As Speaker of the House with a President of the other party, Boehner, like previous House Speakers, met with the president and his staff in order to work out a compromise budget, for all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives. However, Boehner had a faction of his Republican caucus—Tea Party Republicans—who wanted no compromises with the Democrats and the President at all. They were so radical that they would rather put the country into default on its debts than vote for a compromise budget or pass any other legislation that would either require compromise of would even make President Obama appear to have been successful. Whenever they perceived that Boehner was negotiating with the President they would attack the speaker and stop House business. Hence the speaker’s famous quote about sneaking into the White House.
Boehner, John. On the House: A Washington Memoir. St. Martin's Press, 2021, p. 156.
The speaker had negotiated a wonderful budget with President Barak Obama, but he had many extreme Republican Tea Party Conservatives who would not support the compromise. The speaker could have passed the bill anyway with the votes of the Democrats and the more rational and centrist Republicans, but he chose not do do so and renegged on his fairly public agreement with the President rather than have a large part of his caucus repudiate him. Talk show host Jay Leno had asked him why de did that. This was his profound answer. Ironically, the dissidents turned on him anyway, and he lost many of his followers. So he resigned as the speaker and also from the House itself
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John Andrew Boehner is an American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.
