John Boehner: “We're talking about real spending cuts here, no smoke and mirrors.”

The modern Republican Party is filled with, as John Boehner put it, people who spend more time tearing things apart than actually building anything.

This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen in the 19 years I have been here in Washington.

I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder.

I`m a Republican actually, I`m a conservative Republican, but I`m not crazy and then they`ve got, I don`t know, these noisemakers I`ll call them. Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, I could go down a long list of people more interested in making noise…