John Boehner Unloads

[DonViejo]

April 2, 2021 at 6:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments

Politico has an excerpt of John Boehner’s scorching new book, On the House.

On the 2010 midterms: “You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name—and that year, by the way, we did pick up a fair number in that category.”

On Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): “By 2013 the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising cash. And now they had a new head lunatic leading the way, who wasn’t even a House member. There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz.”

On Barack Obama: “All of this crap swirling around was going to make it tough for me to cut any deals with Obama as the new House Speaker. Of course, it has to be said that Obama didn’t help himself much either. He could come off as lecturing and haughty. He still wasn’t making Republican outreach a priority. But on the other hand—how do you find common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor to America?”

This is a book you’ll want to read.

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https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/02/john-boehner-unloads/

[Scrivener7]

1. I will read it and thank you for the heads up, but I would love to ask Mr. Boehner how he could

possibly say that Obama did not make outreach to republiQans a priority.

[aocommunalpunch]

3. He's a liar, scam artist, and a fraud.

You really want to waste time reading this trash?

[Scrivener7]

7. I'll get it from the library so I don't give him money, but yes. I think it would be instructive

to see the machinations from the point of view of the other side. And though Boehner is not someone I ever agreed with, I don't think he's a Donny Bodybags worshiping lunatic. So I am interested in seeing what that dynamic is like too.

[Solomon]

5. Agreed. That part is bullshit.

[Hortensis]

20. Amen to that last. He's spinning his biography for those who'll

believe anything from their Republican leaders.

[nuxvomica]

2. Being a marijuana lobbyist has certainly improved Boehner's perspective

Maybe not enough, but some.

[Blue_true]

33. Maybe he is the type of person who only endorse what they use.

I fault republicans like him, Will, Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, and others for nourishing the monster that is now the modern Republican Party. They could have admitted that differences were simple ones about the best policy to pursue, but they instead chose to make Democrats out to be treasonous communists that were intent on destroying the country. So now, they and we have to harvest what they sowed.

[aocommunalpunch]

4. "Want to read"?

Fuck. That. Guy. Absolutely fucking not.

[Beakybird]

6. Mm yeah, I agree, but this book might be invaluable for strategists and historians.

He was an executable political figure.

[live love laugh]

28. +1

[tanyev]

8. Jeez, 'lecturing and haughty'--did his editor tell him he couldn't use 'uppity'?

[speak easy]

10. You know it :nuke:

[keithsw]

9. He said a couple years ago,

In an interview with his hometown newspaper the Cincinnati Enquirer that Kevin McCarthy was the most power hungry son of a bitch in DC and would throw anyone under the bus to attain that power, not verbatim but along those lines

[Greybnk48]

23. Kevin Spacey followed/studied Kevin McCarthy for his role as Frank Underwood

in House of Cards as a ruthless, power obsessed, murdering politician. In an interview, Spacey said that his portrayal of Frank Underwood was as close to McCarthy as possible without using his name.

He laughed about when he was observing him, McCarthy would somehow get on camera no matter who was speaking; he "loved the lens."

disclaimer: I know Spacey is a sexual predator and abuser. It's irrelevant here.

[Blue_true]

34. IMO, Spacey was one of the best character actors there ever has been.

One of the sad realities about History is that men that have been very good at something we’re also grotesquely flawed human beings.

[bamagal62]

11. Surprised he's still alive.

Would have thought the alcohol would have consumed him by now.

[Carlitos Brigante]

14. I read there's a bit of blood left in his alcohol. Maybe that's what's

keeping him around.

[bamagal62]

30. 🤣🤣🤣

[lonely bird]

12. Now a warning?

Boehner is a gutless turd. He knew what he and the GOP were doing was wrong yet he did nothing.

Now he writes a book about how bad it was. If he had been possessed of a moral compass he would have been willing to wreck his career to do the right thing. Hell, that action may have even helped him. Sorry, he was one of many that paved the way for Trump.

[Ford_Prefect]

13. We are talking about the guy who conspired with Newt and other right wingers to produce the Contract

on America. He's covering his ass because he got turfed out. He spent 24 years in congress advancing an ever more conservative agenda for the GOP. He's every bit the RW insider he now claims his former peers to be.

He's as full of baloney as any televangelist who gets caught in the headlines for womanizing on church money.

[Boomerproud]

15. Not saying anything about the Rs that we don't know.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Thanks. His statement about if you had an R in front of your name

reminds me of the tax plan for the rich. Trump constantly bragged about it but in actuality he never provided a plan. The R's waited but never got one and took one off their shelf.

Any moron with an R in front of their name could have come up with a tax plan for the rich.

[Schmice3]

17. I will check it out at a LIBRARY

There is no way that I'm putting any of my hard-earned LIBERAL money into his pocket.
Remember his support for draconian drug laws? Remember how as soon as this rummy was out of office he signed on with a marijuana-producing company? To hell with him and everybody who looks like him.

[SMC22307]

18. We watched the Tea Party burst onto the scene, we've been aware of right-wing media...

for decades, we know how right-wing billionaires (Koch, Mercer, etc.) fund think tanks, campaigns, etc. Do we really need to read this book? I doubt there's anything in it that we don't already know or suspect.

[Greybnk48]

24. The Tea Party was orchestrated by Dick Armey and Phil Gramm out of Texas.

We know the funders you mentioned, but I don't want them to EVER be off the hook for their evil toward the citizens of this country.

[SMC22307]

25. They're off the hook every day, sadly, funding a new crop of corrupt, insane, vile...

Republicans like Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I doubt many Americans even know who Boehner is and the ones who do consider him a partisan drunk who cashed in on the weed industry when the gettin' was good.

[FakeNoose]

19. Oh boy, I've been waiting for this

It's definitely on my list, and I hope he trashes McConnell to hell and back.

[scarletlib]

21. The eating of their own continues.

Enjoy.

[Grammy23]

22. If he does a book tour as most authors do, he'll show up on tv from time to time.

The juicier parts will be covered over and over by various tv shows. So we’ll get the gist of this book from the many interviews that will take place. No need to spend $25 or 30 dollars to find out the basic message. Excerpts will be forthcoming, too, if anyone feels compelled to read some of it.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. "Fawning Right Wing Media"

Yep. A lesson, for those who want to know the history:

Time of Useful Consciousness explains monetized mass propaganda and its impact - now more than a century in action...

Alex Carey said that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

And Part the 2nd:

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/

The only antidote — Truth.

How do we counter “the big lie?” That can only be done by “the big truth,” that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and that Donald Trump lost, endlessly repeated by as many sources as possible. Most Republican leaders in Congress have stated publicly that Biden won. Almost all Republican members of Congress and all but a small handful of Trump loyalists admit privately that Biden won. Now if they would only say that publicly.

— Professor Paul Scheele

https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2021/02/antidote-to-trumps-big-lie-is-endlessly-repeating-the-truth-commentary.html

[bluedigger]

27. Moscow Mitch makes him look like a moderate.

He was not.

[Baitball Blogger]

29. He was so wrong about Obama. He tried to reach across the aisle.

That's why many of us criticized him.

Let this be a lesson to those who think that Centrism is the way. They will not respect you, and they will not give you credit for trying.

[Skittles]

31. we criticized him because he wasted so much time do that reaching

with assholes who were NEVER going to work with him

[Raine]

32. Hmmm interesting, I may give it a look. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Listen until the end

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