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LiberalArkie

(19,535 posts)
16. I think Pope Francis laid it on him and Boehner felt it.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 08:54 AM
Sep 2015

From Wikipedia:

Early life, education, and career
Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children. His father was of German descent and his mother had German and Irish ancestry. He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his eleven siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch. He started working at his family's bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of one another; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.

Boehner attended Cincinnati's Moeller High School and was a linebacker on the school's football team, where he was coached by future Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust. Graduating from Moeller in 1968, when U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was at its peak, Boehner enlisted in the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back. He earned his B.A. in business administration from Xavier University in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking seven years as he held several jobs to pay for his education.

Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. He was steadily promoted and eventually became president of the firm, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress.[6]

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good- one less asshole Marrah_G Sep 2015 #1
He's leaving because the uber-nutcases want to replace him with someone much more right wing. stevenleser Sep 2015 #15
That might explain the excessive crying, yesterday Siwsan Sep 2015 #2
Almost as bad as the Hastert Congress. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #3
From Congress-- Ms. Yertle Sep 2015 #4
Congress Robbins Sep 2015 #6
Strange he would resign with only a year left of his term Ms. Yertle Sep 2015 #11
Seemingly both n/t Mira Sep 2015 #14
Cue circus music - So now which loon will lead the asylum now? YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #5
Friday news dump confirmed by NBC news. GreatCaesarsGhost Sep 2015 #7
I hope he gets the help he needs but good riddance! Glimmer of Hope Sep 2015 #8
Wow. Long time coming. A commentator is saying that he Hortensis Sep 2015 #9
Orange ya glad !! C_U_L8R Sep 2015 #10
Government shutdown here we come. eom MohRokTah Sep 2015 #12
This is a bad development. He's not a teabagger, but the person who replaces him will be. stevenleser Sep 2015 #13
I think Pope Francis laid it on him and Boehner felt it. LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #16
Oooooo... a Jesuit college. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #17
I really believe so. Just about al the times I have seen him crying it seemed to be guilt. LiberalArkie Sep 2015 #19
I don't think so, he could stay as speaker with Dem support if he were to push the popes agenda he YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #18
It's a miracle. Thank you Pope Francis. L. Coyote Sep 2015 #20
Tea Party rebellion Prism Sep 2015 #21
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