John Boehner Quotes
We are voting on this measure again so that the new members of the House can have their chance to vote against Obamacare.
Under his leadership the conservative Republicans had attempted and failed dozens of times to repeal Obamacare which many Republicans campaigned against in the 2012 Presidential election which they also lost. The irony was that even if a repeal were to possibly pass both housed of Congress, President Obama announced that he would veto the repeal. This futile and repetitive wast of time took place where the House was so extreme that it originated almost no legislation that every became law. The conservative Republicans had opposed every attempt to provide a national health system since they blocked President Truman from it. Yet Medicare was passed and became one of America’s most popular programs. Conservatives blocked all efforts to expand Medicare to cover all Americans until President Obama in his first term passed Obamacare. Since then they made all these attempts to repeal it.
John Boehner, U. S. Congressman (Republican, OH), Speaker of the House, Reason he gave to reporters for yet again scheduling a vote to repeal Obamacare, May 10, 2013
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The Republicans were trying to repeal the first national health reform since Medicare. But the part was split over what they would replace it with. Many wanted to give the health insurers more power and profits, but other Republicans like Cruz did not want to see the helath insurance premiums increase. Ironically, most members of Congress at the time agreed with Cruz's focus on lowering or at least holding health insurance premiums steady, but this was vert hard to do without heavily regulating the insurance companies or adding a public insurance program to compete with the insurance companies or eliminate the rights of the individual states to regualte and control; insurance in their state. And no majority could be found for any of these.
Cruz, a freshman senator with little political experience was elected with extensive Tea Party support in the Texas Republican primary where the Texas real contest is. He was so fanatical that when he could not get his fellow Republican Senators to shut down the government unless President Obama would not implement Obamacare which was enacted by the Congress and declared Constitutional by the Supreme Court. He then turned to the House of Representatives where there were a number of Tea Party Republicans. He helped lead a shutdown of the government, naively expecting the President to give up on his signature legislation. When he did not, the American public was angry at the Republicans for shutting down the government and costing the taxpayers over $80 billion dollars and inconveniencing many Americans. Finally, the House Speaker allowed an open vote and the Reasonable Republicans and the Democrats easily passed a continuing resolution to get the Government open again. However, another debt ceiling extension was coming up for a vote, and even after alienating most of his senior Republican Senate Colleagues and a large part of the American public, he gave this response to a journalist who asked if after the last fiasco, he would try to shut down the government again.
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.
