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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PwrzsLYt-uI<\/p>\n

John Boehner’s closing remarks before the vote on health care reform last March.\u00a0 It’s important to remember that in John Roberts’s and Antonin Scalia’s America corporations are persons, and that’s Boehner’s real constituency<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Matt Taibbi has a profile<\/a> of new House Leader, John Boehner, in this week’s Rolling Stone<\/em>.\u00a0 A taste:<\/p>\n

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich. The biographer who somewhere down the line tackles the question of Boehner’s legacy will do well to simply throw out any references to party affiliation, because the thing that has made Boehner who he is \u2014 the thing that has finally lifted him to the apex of legislative power in America \u2014 has almost nothing to do with his being a Republican.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have plenty of creatures like Boehner. But in the new Speaker of the House, the Republicans own the perfect archetype \u2014 the quintessential example of the kind of glad-handing, double-talking, K Street toady who has dominated the politics of both parties for decades. In sports, we talk about athletes who are the “total package,” and that term comes close to describing Boehner’s talent for perpetuating our corrupt and debt-addled status quo: He’s a five-tool insider who can lie, cheat, steal, play golf, change his mind on command and do anything else his lobbyist buddies and campaign contributors require of him to get the job done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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