John Boehner: “We will not stand here and watch this floor be abused for pure political grandstanding at the expense of our national…”

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

I want to work with you. But I`m just stuck.

Let me just be clear here. A debt limit increase without any reforms to lower our deficit just isn`t going to cut it.

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.