John Boehner: “Raising tax rates is unacceptable, and frankly, it couldn't even pass the House. I'm not sure it can pass the Senate.”

Even though I didn`t really want to go the direction where the team`s gone, they were the ones who elected me to be the leader, and I had an obligation to go lead them.

Oh, yes, Jim Jordan especially.

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

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