POLITICO: …In his most direct terms so far, Boehner spoke of the group of lawmakers that pushed him out of the speakership. He said during the speech that he fought with them over tactics, not strategy. Many of his GOP colleagues are perfectionists in a system of government that doesn’t allow for perfection, Boehner said.
“Nothing was good enough,” Boehner said, in a kind of reflective comment he never would’ve made as speaker. “When we protected 99 percent of the American people from an increase in taxes, most of my Republicans colleagues voted no. When we did the big money-saving bill, $2 trillion in 2011, half of my Republican colleagues voted no. Even when we passed these changes to Medicare earlier this year and solved the payment system for how we pay doctors for Medicare patients, which has been a problem for 15 years, and no one could solve it, [Nancy] Pelosi and I got it solved, and paid for it from these long-term changes to Medicare.
“And yet 40-something of my colleagues voted no, while almost everyone else in Congress voted yes,” he continued. “Why? Because it wasn’t good enough.”… (more)
