John Boehner was widely mocked during his tenure as Speaker of the House. Some of that criticism was justified, some of it not. In his defense, I’m not sure anyone could’ve corralled a Congress as nihilistic as this one. At any rate, one of the few services he did provide in office was to publicly identify Ted Cruz as a petulant fraud. Last year, before stepping down, Boehner appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and called Cruz a “jackass” and a “false prophet.” Boehner was responding to Cruz’s shutdown stunt last year, in which he stood on the Senate floor and accused his colleagues of a grand conspiracy: “I mentioned to you [his colleagues] that the votes were always cooked here.