A whopping 23 Republican House members have already announced their intention to retire at the end of this Congress. Sure, it’s a bad time to be in the GOP, but Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, argued on Tuesday that it’s also in Republicans’ nature to get out of Dodge.
“Democrats believe in government; they tend to stick around forever,” Boehner told an American Spectator luncheon crowd. “Republicans tend to leave more quickly.”
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Boehner admitted that even he didn’t come to Washington to be a career politician. “I didn’t come here to be a congressman. I came here to fight for a smaller, more accountable federal government.” (Never mind that he’s been here for nearly two decades.)
Boehner also had a message for any disaffected Republicans who are considering voting for Libertarian Bob Barr in the presidential election.
“It would be like voting for Barack Obama,” he said. “If you want to throw your vote away, that’s fine. But that’s what it would be.”
