Okay, seriously “late” with this one, but I refuse to let my own incompetence mar the historical record, to wit: John Boehner was a shit. Big John got a lot of praise last month with the release of his tell-a-lot reminiscence, On the House, the title reflecting his fondness for, you know, potent potables. The…
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Honest John Boehner, A “Good Republican”—that is to say, a coward and a fraud
John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015, engaged in one of the prerogatives of those who have relinquished power—speaking the truth. Among other things, Boehner claimed that all that Republican talk about repealing and replacing ObamaCare is just talk: “They’ll fix Obamacare, and I shouldn’t have called it repeal and…
Imaginary Conversations: John Boehner and Paul Ryan
Boehner: OK, I got BO to buy into that budget package you put together. I’ll announce it, you’ll denounce it, the freaks will bite, we’ll pass it anyway, and you’ll have smooth sailing until the election. Ryan: You’re a prince, JB, a prince! Boehner: I’ll remember that when I need a favor. If I ever…
Paul Ryan, taking more, giving less, aka More Gratuitous, Uninformed Political Speculation!
Consider yourselves warned, eh? Yes, Paul Ryan says he’ll take the job of Speaker of the House of Representatives, but only if the Republicans really, really love him. This means, among other things, that they all have to vote for him, that he gets his weekends off, that he doesn’t have to spend a lot…
The Benghazi Select Committee: Boehner’s Dangerous Double Game!
Unless you’re ready for full-immersion fantasy inside baseball, please stop reading now. You heard what I said! Go away! Okay, stud, here’s the deal: House Speaker John Boehner’s recent decision to finally allow the creation of a House Select Committee to “investigate,” for the fiftieth time, the bloody raid on the American compound in Benghazi…
Memo to Matt: Boehner may be bluffing, but so are the Democrats
Over at Slate, Matt Yglesias insists that President Obama doesn’t have to give an inch to House Speaker John Boehner on taxes in the upcoming fix everything we didn’t fix before lame-duck session. Because Republicans under Bush passed “temporary” tax cuts rather than permanent ones, and because those tax cuts are set to expire, Obama…
The Grandfather of all Tick-Tocks
“Il Tick-Tock di Tutti Tick-Tocks”? “Tick-Tock Mania”? “Tick-Tocks R Us”? “Tick-Tock Around the Clock”? Anyway, over at the New York Times, Matt Bai has yet another Tick-Tock on that mother of all non-events, the Obama-Boehner non-budget deal, that died aborning back in July. This lemon has already been squeezed pretty dry, but Bai still gets…