Former Speaker of the House John Boehner has called Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz “Lucifer In The Flesh.” “I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life,” Boehner said about Cruz in a talk at Stanford University’s CEMEX Auditorium on Wednesday. Salon reports: 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. How is it that Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell can promise that there will never ever be a shutdown? Because, I believe, Speaker Boehner has decided to cut a deal with Leader Nancy Pelosi.” This whole spectacle, like everything else Cruz does in the Senate, was pure showmanship. A temporary spending measure was passed by a vote of 77-19 in order to keep the government afloat, a move supported by a majority of Americans, and Cruz theatrically sought a roll-call vote merely to be seen [...]