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Thankfully, I think Boehner is just too odious for any of the talkers to get a real man crush on him, but what kind of claptrap is this? "I am who I am."? If a D had said that to "hard hitting journalist" Brian Williams, he'd accuse them of hedging and beat them down until they answered. But with Boehner, it's a badge of Midwestern Honor.
As David Gregory tries to point out-
“He’s a country club Republican” who is “always at the country club,” sniffed one former House Democrat, who asked not to be named, while former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough said last June on his MSNBC television show that “so many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world. Every Republican I talk to says John Boehner, by 5 or 6 o’clock at night, you can see him at bars.”
Those same critics say he also is the unlikeliest of reformers. Too slick, they say, too close to lobbyists, too addicted to golf, too lucky and too interested in having a good time. A guy who cries anytime he talks about growing up in southwestern Ohio. And what’s with that year-round tan?
They point out that, for two decades in Washington, he has been the quintessential insider, raising huge sums of money from business groups, once appalling critics by passing around tobacco-lobbyist contributions to GOP colleagues on the House floor just before a vote.
The whole "Grey Poupon" thing must be something Williams picked up from one of his winger buddies. And yes, we're sure Boehner spends all his free time in overalls hanging out at Nascar.
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