Outgoing Boehner Rails Against Republican ‘False Prophets’ on Face the Nation

Outgoing Speaker John Boehner spoke out on Face the Nation today about why he’s stepping down, and he pulled no punches in decrying “false prophets” on the Republican side.

Boehner, whose Friday resignation announcement took everyone by surprise, told John Dickerson he’s confident about preventing a government shutdown in the final few weeks of his speakership.

He said it wasn’t so much “dysfunction” in Congress that he didn’t like, but some of the disagreement. He brought up plenty conservative ideas he pushed that were “all voted against by my most conservative members because it wasn’t good enough.”

He exclaimed, “Really?!”

Boehner said that plenty of Republicans are “unrealistic” about government and recalled how the Bible warns of “false prophets” as he decried Republicans “spreading noise about how much can get done.”

Dickerson asked if he considers Ted Cruz one of those false prophets. Boehner referred him back to a fundraiser he held in Colorado in August, in which it was widely reported he called Cruz a “jackass.”

You can watch the video above, via CBS.

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