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LENO: Now this GOP infighting. Is this the worst you've ever seen it?

BOEHNER: Oh, no. Well, maybe it is. [Laughter.] It's bad.

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BOEHNER: Listen, I told my colleagues in July, I didn't think shutting down the government over Obamacare [would] work because the president said I'm not going to negotiate. And so I told them in August. Probably not a good idea. Told them in early September. So I said, do you want to fight this fight? I'll go fight the fight with you. But it was a very predictable disaster. And so the sooner we got it over with the better. Excerpts from transcript at http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/john-boehner-on-jay-leno-gop-i
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“There's nothing I could do that was ever conservative enough for them,” he said, apparently referring to groups that had prodded his members to shut down the government over Obamacare. Excerpt from ttp:// www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-john-boehner-tonight
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