Raul Labrador: John Boehner ‘the Worst Speaker of the House in History’

Rep. Raul Labrador, responding to a suggestion from John Boehner that Ted Cruz is Satan incarnate, called Boehner the "worst speaker of the House in history": 

“I have been pretty good at trying to not attack John Boehner on a personal basis, even though I thought he was probably the worst speaker of the House in history. He was a terrible leader. And now I think gloves are off. I think it is really kind of shameful that he would say such a thing about Ted Cruz, and it just shows you that people like John Boehner in Washington, D.C., they would rather work with Hillary Clinton, they would rather work with Donald Trump than they would rather work with conservatives. 

Those kinds of things that he is saying about Ted Cruz are the kinds of things that John Boehner has been saying about conservatives in Washington, D.C., for the last five years. He hates us. He hates people who disagree with him and he hates people that do not help him just have a good afternoon with his wine and his golf club. 

What he wants to do is to have an easy life. And he wanted to have that the last five years and we didn’t make life easy on him. We made life very difficult, because he wasn’t keeping the promises that we had made to our constituents. That’s the main reason that he is not the speaker of the House right now, and it is the main reason that he was such a failure as a speaker. 

And I think it is really, really sad to see a man do that in his later years. He should have kept his comments to himself, instead of saying something like that.”