House Speaker John Boehner responds to questions about his criticism of conservative groups who oppose the budget bill noting that they have “lost all credibility.”
During a Thursday press conference, Boehner stated:
“This budget agreement takes giant steps in the right direction. But when groups come out and criticize something they’ve never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are.”
In the past Boehner has been reticent to attack conservative groups such as Club for Growth and Heritage Action, but acknowledged that these kinds of groups had pushed the Republican party into an unsuccessful strategy when it came to the government shutdown earlier this year.
He went on to note that he did not support that strategy and that they pushed for it, knowing it would fail.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Frankly I think they’re misleading their followers. I think they’re pushing our members in places they don’t want to be and frankly I just think they’ve lost all credibility.”
You can watch a clip, below, courtesy of CNN:
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