http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx?nodeid=552257 Ex-G.W. Bush Aide Wallace: Boehner Deserves Medal of Freedom
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 06:32 PM
By: Bill Hoffmann
House Speaker John Boehner pushed through Tuesday's debt ceiling vote to keep Republicans from being falsely blamed for gumming up the government and enable them to keep their eyes on the prize: the 2014 elections, says Nicolle Wallace, former communications chief for President George W. Bush.
"The truth is the Republicans . . . will be judged by too many voters as responsible for these things," Wallace told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"We have such important elections on the horizon; these midterm elections are much more important for our party than theirs, we have much more at stake.
"We have seen the wreckage caused by having . . . an extreme progressive liberal in the Oval Office. Our only recourse, now, is to further solidify our majority in the House and to try to take back the Senate, and it matters how our party is viewed when it comes to these big Washington food fights," she said Tuesday.
Wallace, who was also senior adviser for the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign, said Boehner should get an award for his Herculean work in keeping a turbulent party together.
"John Boehner deserves whatever that highest civilian honor is, the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Wallace said.
"He has a very difficult job . . . He is there not just to pass laws, but to keep the government running and to get things done. I admire every step he's taken; even during the government shutdown last fall, through all of this, he's been strong and he's been honest.
"He's in a really tough position, and I don't think 'sympathy's' the right word because I don’t pity him at all, I admire him, but I have a lot of empathy with what he's wrestling with."