Boehner ally rips ‘classless’ Cruz

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Sunday slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for celebrating the resignation of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

{mosads}Cole, a Boehner ally, called Cruz’s remarks “classless and tasteless and counterproductive.”

“This is a guy that for 25 years had a distinguished record in the House — I’m talking about Boehner, certainly not talking about Sen. Cruz — again, who got real tax cuts, real spending reductions, real entitlement reform in divided government,” Cole said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I would stack his record of accomplishment up against any of these people who are being critical of him.”

“What have they done? Nothing,” he added.

Cruz reveled in the news of Boehner’s resignation at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.

“Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House,” Cruz said to a cheering crowd. “You all come to town and somehow that changes.”

Cole, who was on the Fox News program with Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a Freedom Caucus member, said anti-establishment Republicans in the House don’t understand how American government works.

“We live in an era of divided government and in a system of checks and balances, and if you don’t understand that” he said as Mulvaney cut him off.

Boehner on Friday announced he would step down at the end of October.