ShareThisThe Obama White House is badly in need of a villain. It needs someone to rail against.
During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama had President George W. Bush to blame for all the nation's ills. He still does, but blaming the previous president quickly gets old in American politics. And Bush has been admirably reticent in American politics, refusing to comment on his successor's performance in office, although he must be sorely tempted.
Bush has kept busy on his book and his library, only emerging in public life to co-chair, along with former President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. And how can you demonize a guy looking out for impoverished earthquake victims? Especially when you asked him to? No, Bush's days as a demon are pretty much over.
The likely Republican presidential candidates aren't in positions where they really do or decide anything. And with the exception of superstar Sarah Palin, most Americans couldn't pick the GOP presidential hopefuls out of a police lineup. Come on. Tim Pawlenty? Mitch Daniels?
Now the White House thinks it has found its villain: House Republican leader John Boehner, a 20-year veteran of Congress. True, the job is a little obscure to the general public. A watchdog group rates it as only the sixth-most influential position in the House.
Boehner would have the obscurity problem -- a poll this spring found that 55 percent of the American people had never heard of him -- except for two things: It's quite possible he'll be the next speaker of the House, a very powerful and visible position and third in line to the president. And he has this deep, alarmingly unnatural tan. The man, depending on the TV lighting, is close to being orange.
Obama even made a joke about it at the White House correspondents' dinner this spring.
Said the president, "In the next hundred days our bipartisan outreach will be so successful that even John Boehner will consider becoming a Democrat. After all, we have a lot in common. He is a person of color -- although not a color that appears in the natural world."
Boehner says he comes by his tan from mowing his grass and mountain-biking. But he doesn't look like a man whose leisure activities include cutting grass and riding a bicycle. He looks like a man who smokes, drinks and plays golf and would make a convincing pit boss in a movie about Las Vegas -- all qualities, by the way, that Washington appreciates. Remember, the president was -- and maybe still is -- a secret smoker. The golf and the beer we already know about.
Just recently Boehner gave a speech in Cleveland blasting Obama's handling of the economy -- while being rather terse about precisely what he would do instead -- and helpfully suggested that the president fire his entire economic team.
This week Obama returned to the same venue. Reported Politico, "The fact that the White House has admitted that Wednesday's trip is a direct response to Boehner's Cleveland speech of Aug. 24 shows that the president is honing in on Boehner as a political punching bag."
The newspaper The Hill headlined its story about Obama going after Boehner, "Seeking bogeyman, Dems' eyes fall on would-be Speaker."
In his speech, Obama took the unusual step of repeatedly singling out Boehner by name as a friend of the rich and the special interests whose policies would be "bad for America."
Boehner's office appeared pleased by the presidential attention. Aides said the "unprecedented" attacks smacked of panic and desperation. Maybe so, but every president needs a villain or two and it appears Obama has found his.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
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Boehner Hearts Orange
What can I say Boehner Hearts Orange (BHO)
Facts Differ From Boehner Statements and Assertions
Boehner says he comes by his tan from mowing his grass and mountain-biking. But he doesn't look like a man whose leisure activities include cutting grass and riding a bicycle. He looks like a man who smokes, drinks and plays golf
John Boehner said he intends to attempt to repeal or block funding for the health care legislation passed earlier this year.
[Boehner] responded to criticism that he plays too much golf. "Do I play golf? Yes. Do I play near as much golf as I would like? No."
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100908/NEWS0108/9090348/John-Boehner-I-ll-kill-health-care-law
"The assertion is false," said Cory Fritz, a Boehner spokesman. "In truth, Congressman Boehner held seven golf events last year, not 119. He did hold 119 events in the district and across the country to benefit conservative candidates, including receptions, meet-and-greets, rallies, speaking engagements, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, but only seven were golf outings. Any assertion to the contrary is false."
Golf Digest contradicts what Boehner's spokesmen deny:
Before Phil Mickelson arrived on the world golf scene, Boehner played the game left-handed. Then in his mid-20s his friends got him to switch to the other side of the ball. He still putts left-handed and plays 100-plus rounds a year... Golf Digest, Oct, 2005 by Lisa Furlong
Well, if Golf Digest has it in print...
...then it must be true! Heavens, we know all the news outlets print only the truth, right? Even back in 2005, right?
Sheesh, get a grip folks. Does this really matter so much to the trolls that a man's (over)use of tanning treatments is all they can focus on, even our president? Hmm.
As for his stance on the 2000+ page Obamacare "bill", any thinking adult would realize that no one that voted for or against that bill actually knew every strange twist in its bloated incarnation produced behind closed doors (closed, at least, to any that might not buy in hook, line and sinker). Some of the statements made from the floor of the Senate and House highlighted weird details about many of the oddities the Dems put in there. Yet folks just voted (along party lines, of course) and the "blues" tricked and connived and played parlimentary games to get the bill thru.
Well, this has been a slice, but gotta get back to work so I can pay more taxes so these bozos can tell me I'm rich and should pay even more taxes...
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