Speaker of the House John Boehner —- He-Of-The-Patriotic-Tear-Ducts —- was once a big hero among everybody’s favorite irate slice of the electorate, the Tea Party. Thanks to their TV-ready sideshow of bombastic Ayn Randyism, pseudo-grassroots and excuse-me-I’ve-actually-read-the-Constitution claims, the group was one of the smaller seismic shifts on the landscape that allowed Boehner to ride into Washington last year with a mandate for cha . . . er . . . mandate for . . . for . . . well, he rode into Washington with a gaggle of red congressmen ready to screw with the Democrats at every turn.
But Ohio’s lachrymose monument to America’s growing pains might be losing his footing with that fickle base. According to the Atlantic (liberal rag), with further reporting from Reuters (socialist sympathizers), Boehner had a sit down in late April with a bunch of Ohio Tea Partiers. It didn’t go well.
This article appears in May 11-17, 2011.
Truth is that an effete Republican elite remain determined to continue their agenda against all comers. John-boy is simply totally frustrated and unable to cope with them. Mr. Dave Rockefeller, Daddy Bush and company have a stranglehold on the Republican Party in order to achieve their one world government called the New World Order. Regardless of whom is in the White House the parent of the Council on Foreign Relations in England still calls the shots. Why do you think the Fed does the things it does with our money propping up central banks around the world?
Ideology has no place. Pragmatic and ruthless determination reign supreme!