Friday, February 07, 2014

House Republican Blasts His Own Party, ‘Jesus himself couldn’t be the speaker’

In case you were wondering why the House can’t get anything done, including even just doing their constitutional duty to pay the bills they racked up by voting to increase the debt limit to do so, it’s because even Jesus couldn’t lead that House.

Yes, that’s right. According to Rep. Patrick J. Tiberi (R-OH) who was speaking to Republican whisperer Robert Costa (now at the Washington Post), “Right now, Jesus himself couldn’t be the speaker and get 218 Republicans behind something, so I think Speaker Boehner is trying his best to come up with a plan that can get close to that. Whatever we move, there will be critics everywhere, but at the end of the day we still have to govern.”

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