John Boehner: “If there's a mandate in yesterday's results, it's a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to…”

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…

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

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