Boehner Brushes Off Political Toll Of Payroll Fiasco

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Thursday shrugged off complaints from Conservatives over the handling of payroll relief.

“Politics will be politics,” Boehner said during a press conference. “If you do the right things for the right reasons, the right things will happen.”

The Speaker added that the House was simply trying to complete what both the White House and the bulk of lawmakers initially sought- a one year extension of payroll relief.

House leaders, particularly Boehner, have taken a bashing from a number of Senate Republicans as well as the Conservative leaning Wall Street Journal Editorial board.

“[Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Boehner] might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest,” the editorial reads.

On Wednesday, former Bush adviser Karl Rove endorsed the editorial, imploring Boehner to salvage his image by passing the two-month extension and then criticizing the President and Democrats for refusing to come back to the negotiationg table.