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| − | '''John Boehner''' is the | + | '''John Boehner''' is the tangerine-hued jackhole who leads the [[Republican Party]] in the [[House of Representatives]] in the US. He represents the Cincinnati, [[Ohio]], area. |
He has demonstrated multiple times how relentlessly stupid he is. Between mixing up the US Constitution with its Declaration of Independence and thinking that [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/22/gitmo-boehner-detainees/ Gitmo detainees are more comfortable] than "many Americans", no other party in the world would allow him to be on a stage, let alone be a leader. | He has demonstrated multiple times how relentlessly stupid he is. Between mixing up the US Constitution with its Declaration of Independence and thinking that [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/22/gitmo-boehner-detainees/ Gitmo detainees are more comfortable] than "many Americans", no other party in the world would allow him to be on a stage, let alone be a leader. | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 5 November 2010
John Boehner is the tangerine-hued jackhole who leads the Republican Party in the House of Representatives in the US. He represents the Cincinnati, Ohio, area.
He has demonstrated multiple times how relentlessly stupid he is. Between mixing up the US Constitution with its Declaration of Independence and thinking that Gitmo detainees are more comfortable than "many Americans", no other party in the world would allow him to be on a stage, let alone be a leader.
He joined the US Navy after graduating from high school in 1968, but was discharged a few weeks later because he has a "bad back." Currently, one of his favorite leisure activities is playing golf. Hmm. Oh, and he's also a war hawk.
He has also said that the Obama Administration is "snuffing out the America that I grew up in."[1] Considering that he was born in 1949, this would seem to imply that he is nostalgic for -- among other things -- black-and-white television; black-and-white morality; black-and-white thinking; Jim Crow laws; the Cold War; McCarthyism; the Korean War and the first years of the Vietnam War; war protests and the Kent State shootings; the Sherman Antitrust Act; the lingering effects of New Deal programs; strong labor unions and a strong American manufacturing base; the Glass–Steagall Act and other tight regulations of Wall Street; demand-side economics and a top marginal tax rate of 75% or more; and Democratic Party control of both houses of Congress (except for 1953-5) for the first 30 years of his life. Or maybe he's just nostalgic for the time when both the President and Speaker of the House were both white and male.
Footnotes
- ↑ Wereschagin, Mike, and Salena Zito. "Obama's good for GOP, Boehner says", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, posted and accessed 29 June 2010.