John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz A ‘Jackass’ At Fundraiser
Speaker of the House John Boehner stunned audience members Wednesday evening at a Colorado fundraiser by referring to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as a “jackass,” two people in attendance tell The Daily Caller.
At a Steamboat Springs event for GOP Rep. Scott Tipton, the Ohio Republican quipped that he likes how Cruz’s presidential campaign keeps “that jackass” out of Washington, and from telling Boehner how to do his job.
That remark rubbed some attendees the wrong way.
“I don’t think it’s terribly speaker-like, and I think it kind of goes against everything that Reagan ever said about disparaging Republicans,” said Ed MacArthur, the president of Native Excavating, who attended the fundraiser.
“It’s becoming very disturbing to me that we can’t have good, polite conversation,” MacArthur said. “It all has to be at the throat.”
But MacArthur added: “I do believe he’s got the right to say it.”
Sen. Ted Cruz poses for a picture at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Aug. 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Tami Chappell)
Another Steamboat Springs resident confirmed Boehner’s remark: “I about fell on the floor.”
“To build coalitions to work together in Washington, D.C., you don’t start it out by calling your colleague a ‘jackass,'” she said.
The fundraiser took place at a tavern-styled venue called the Ghost Ranch. About 100 or more people were there. Boehner and Tipton addressed the crowd while standing in front of a stage.
House Speaker John Boehner returns to his office after a visit to the House floor in February 2015. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
It’s no surprise that Boehner and Cruz have a rocky relationship. The Texas senator and the speaker have clashed over tactics and policy. And Cruz, on the campaign trail, often criticizes the Republican Washington establishment.
For Cruz, the attack could be helpful: Boehner is not beloved by the conservative grassroots activists the Texas senator is courting. And it could further endear Cruz to voters who find Donald Trump’s anti-Washington message appealing.
The Daily Caller has reached out to Boehner, Cruz and Tipton’s press offices for comment.
Planned Parenthood Docs Failed To Report Rape, Don’t Wash Their Hands
Planned Parenthood staff did not report multiple rapes of a 14-year-old girl who got two abortions at the clinic that were four months apart, the Alabama health department found during a recently published review of the clinic.
In addition to sanitation problems, improper paperwork and a lack of caution when administering drugs to patients, the health department found the Alabama clinic failed to report the 14-year-old’s case to the authorities, and was otherwise careless with her health.
These deficiencies “require a plan of correction,” the review begins. (RELATED: Nearly 1 in 3 Abortions Happen At Planned Parenthood ‘Health’ Clinics)
A 14-year-old mother of two visited the clinic in April, 2014, for an abortion, and returned that August for a second abortion. Planned Parenthood did not obtain proper consent from a guardian, as required by Alabama law, and did not take proper precautions when administering the medication abortions.
The clinic’s own standards require an abortionist to consult the medical director and/or affiliate protocols before performing a medication abortion on someone with a hemoglobin level below 10. The Planned Parenthood staff did neither of these things before performing the two medication abortions. (RELATED: Planned Parenthood Whistleblower: ‘This Is Not Political To Me’)
The staff also violated Alabama law by failing to report the child mother’s case to the authorities, the report concluded. The clinic’s director of patient services verified a report was not made in an interview with the health department, but “gave no additional information as to why,” the review notes.
The review also found sanitation and infection control problems, noting a number of observed abortions in which the doctors failed to wash their hands properly or at all between procedures and when changing gloves.
The clinic “failed to follow the procedure for Instrument Cleaning and Sterilization, gloves and hand hygiene,” the review states. “This had the potential to negatively affect all patients served by this facility.”
Planned Parenthood Southeast, which includes the Alabama clinic in its network, did not respond to a request for comment. The clinic could not be reached for comment.
The share of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood jumped from about 20 percent of all U.S. abortions in 2004 (255,015) to a record high of about 32 percent in 2011 (333,964), an analysis of Planned Parenthood and federal data shows.
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