Internal Opposition Quotes
The House was theoretically controlled by the speaker and his Republican Party. So Boehner did what House speakers have always done when there was a President of the other Party The speaker then negotiated a wonderful budget with President Barak Obama, but he had many extreme Republican Tea Party Conservatives who would not support the compromise. The speaker could have passed the bill anyway with the votes of the Democrats and the more rational and centrist Republicans, but he chose not do do so and renegged on his fairly public agreement with the President rather than have a large part of his caucus repudiate him. Ironically, the dissidents turned on him anyway, and he lost many of his followers. So he resigned as the speaker and also from the House itself
