I guess he thinks that will help him sell books? But his lead book blurb is his latest insult directed at me. In my whole life, I haven’t spoke 50 words to John Boehner. I guess he thinks that will help him sell books?'Īmazing. In my whole life, I haven't spoke 50 words to John Boehner. Not that anybody asked me.'Ĭruz addressed the quotation last month after it was shown on the back cover of Boehner's book, writing: 'Amazing. He enlisted the crazy caucus of the GOP in what was a truly dumba** idea. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz.
He continues, 'There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless a**hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. And now they had a new head lunatic leading the way, who wasn't even a House member,' Boehner writes in his forthcoming book, On the House: A Washington Memoir. 'By 2013 the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising cash. In a new book excerpt published by Politico on Friday, former House Speaker John Boehner summarizes the Republican Party's descent into 'crazytown' and names Senator Ted Cruz of Texas as a central figure responsible.