Ted Cruz Jokes Conservatives Terrified Boehner Out Of Office

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Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz joked at Friday’s Values Voter Summit that conservatives terrified House Speaker John Boehner into resignation.

“You want to know how much each of you terrify Washington?” Cruz told the crowd of conservatives at the conference at Washington, D.C. “Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House.”

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