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Mon Oct 30, 2017, 03:26 AM Oct 2017

John Boehner: Jordan, Chaffetz are 'a--holes' [View all]

Source: the hill



10/29/17 08:01 PM EDT


Boehner unloads on former colleagues in new interview
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Former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a new profile from Politico on Sunday that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) are "a--holes.”

The former speaker made the comment while discussing Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) likely becoming the chair of the House Oversight Committee, a position Gowdy eventually earned.


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Boehner also criticized Jordan, who helped found the House's Freedom Caucus, which was part of the movement to push Boehner out as speaker.

“Jordan was a terrorist as a legislator going back to his days in the Ohio House and Senate,” Boehner told Politico. “A terrorist. A legislative terrorist.”..........................

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/357745-john-boehner-jason-chaffetz-is-an-asshole



But he loves this guy!



“Gowdy — that’s my guy, even though he doesn’t know how to dress,” John Bo"ehner told Politico"
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Just love it when GrOPers eat their own!! InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2017 #1
Retirement and liquor lubricate the tongue wondrously. Midnight Writer Oct 2017 #2
Gowdy is a smarmy Scarsdale Oct 2017 #5
Hey, we already knew Achilleaze Oct 2017 #3
Duplicate in Home LBN column. Reports same language. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #4
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