phil: and i am phil maddingly, it would appear you are not the only one who wanted to get out of washington. john boehner: ♪ my, oh my what a wonderful day ♪ phil: on the show tonight, values and voters. but soon, it is soon to be a vacancy. today in a slow news day, speaker john boehner said sayonara to capitol hill announcing he would resign from conger said the end of october. here is the reasoning that john boehner gave. john boehner: before i went to sleep last night i told my wife, i might make an announcement tomorrow. what kind of announcement? tell them it is time to go. this morning i woke up and i walked up to starbucks as usual and got my coffee. came back and read and saw everybody at pete's diner. got home and thought, i think today's the day. phil: you've got to love the pete's diner reference. speaker john boehner, we had some good times. we laughed, we cried, we listened, we cried. we cried a lot. there were tears. why is speaker john boehner leaving now? margaret: speaker john boehner wanted to leave a year ago. what happened was eric cantor out of nowhere -- in eric canto