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Title: John Boehner: The Second of 12 Kids From Ohio Who Is Barack Obama's Elitist Target
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... n-Boehner-the-second-of-12-kid
Published: Sep 22, 2010
Author: Tony Harnden
Post Date: 2010-09-22 11:27:05 by Murron
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John Boehner: The Second of 12 Kids From Ohio Who Is Barack Obama's Elitist Target The White House is attempting to cling on to Democratic control of Washington by portraying an Ohio congressman who grew up in near poverty as an elitist country club Republican controlled by wealthy lobbyists. President Barack Obama is doing his best to turn Representative John Boehner, the House minority leader, into Public Enemy Number One. If Republicans win back the House of Representatives in November, as polls indicate, he will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. In a recent speech, Mr Obama mentioned Mr Boehner by name nine times. A fundraising email sent out from BarackObama.com this week stated that corporate interests and lobbyists “have put all their chips on one man: Congressman John Boehner”. Democrats have started a BeatBoehner.com website that claims he spent $1 million on "luxury hotels, exclusive golf resorts and gourmet dining for himself and his fat-cat contributors". On the I-75 freeway outside Cincinnati, a huge poster showing a tanned Mr Boehner playing golf accuses him of teeing off 119 times in a year. Yet Mr Boehner's life story is the type of classic up-by-the-bootstraps tale of the American Dream that can put a tear in a voter's eye. As his story becomes better known, the Democrats could even be drawing favourable attention upon him. Right now, most Americans have never heard of Mr Boehner, and fewer still can pronounce his name, which rhymes with Rayner. The alleged elitist country club Republican is an Ohio Congressman who grew up in near poverty. His sister Lynda Meineke, who is 51, is a waitress and bar tender at Andy's Cafe in Carthage, Ohio, a family business that was founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. As a child, one of Mr Boehner's jobs was to mop the floor. Sitting outside the bar this week, sipping a bottle of Bud Light and smoking a cigarette, Mrs Meineke described her childhood as "cramped" but happy. "We learned how to share. If there was a toy, it wasn't just for you but for all the younger ones." Mr Boehner, 61, is the second of 12 who grew up in a German-Irish family in Reading, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. All but two of them still live within a few miles of each other. Two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs. The future Congressman started work as a janitor and took seven years to get his degree – the first in the family to do so – because he had several jobs to pay his way. He joined a plastics and packaging company, rising to president before entering local politics by being elected to the town board. The family house on Hill Street initially had two bedrooms with Mr Boehner and three brothers sleeping in one, their sister in another and their parents on a pull-out bed in the living room. Their father Earl later built a three-bedroom extension. Mrs Meineke, whose husband is an unemployed builder, still lives in the modest house. She remembers her father rising at dawn to go off to the café, which he ran with his twin brother and was a favourite with truck drivers. "Then my mother would get up before all of us, and drink coffee and listen to the radio, packing our lunches and writing our names on all the brown bags. "Then she'd start waking us up. You knew that if you didn't get up you'd be cutting your time in the bathroom in half. Sometimes, the boys had to go outside and pee by the tree." Mr Boehner's deep tan is often mocked by Democrats. At a dinner last year, Mr Obama said: "He is a person of colour, although not a colour that appears in the natural world." Like Mr Obama, Mr Boehner is a keen golfer and a smoker. His sister sniggered at the suggestion her brother might ever have been on a tanning bed. The "dark hair and olive skin", she said, came from her mother.
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#1. To: Murron (#0)
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Andrew Carnegie came here the child of paupers and gave us the violence of the 1892 Homestead Strike and the Johnstown Flood. How Boehner came into this world is irrelevant to what he is now.
And young master Nixon's parents ran a store. They were hardly wealthy.
You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't.
I was only able to find 7 quotes of obama mentioning Boehner, I could have missed a couple. But focusing on Boehner 7 times in this speech looks like he's obsessed with the man...LOL! Text Of Obama Speech In Cleveland On The Economy September 8th, 2010 Cleveland, Ohio (1) "There were no new policies from Mr. Boehner. There were no new ideas. There was just the same philosophy we already tried for the last decade – the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place" (2) "To most of you, this is just common sense. But not to Mr. Boehner and his allies. For years, Republicans have fought to keep these corporate loopholes open". (3) "In fact, when Mr. Boehner was here in Cleveland he attacked us for closing a few of these loopholes – and using the money to help states like Ohio keep hundreds of thousands of teachers and cops and firefighters on the job. He dismissed these jobs – teaching our kids, patrolling our streets, rushing into burning buildings – as quote “government jobs” – jobs that I guess he thought just weren’t worth saving". (4) "Mr. Boehner and the Republicans in Congress said no to these projects. Fought them tooth and nail. Though I should say that didn’t stop a lot of them from showing up at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies and trying to take credit. That’s always a sight to see". (5) "Mr. Boehner has so far said no to infrastructure. That’s bad for America – and that too is what this election is about". (6) "So let me be clear to Mr. Boehner and everyone else: we should not hold middle class tax cuts hostage any longer. We are ready, this week, to give tax cuts to every American making $250,000 or less. For any income over this amount, the tax rates would go back to what they were under President Clinton. This isn’t to punish folks who are better off – it’s because we can’t afford the $700 billion price tag". (7) "But let’s look at the facts. When these same Republicans – including Mr. Boehner – were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down".
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Sounds typical working class of the 50/60's. Hardly closer to the poverty line than most of the country of that era. And they were generally Dem Party line voters.
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
LOL!!! Democrats Try to Make Boehner the GOP Face of 2010 Election September 21, 2010 As a young Ohio congressman, John Boehner played a key role in crafting the Contract with America, the campaign pledge that catapulted Republicans into a House majority in 1994. More than 15 years later, Boehner is now hoping to spearhead a Republican return to House leadership, after a four-year lapse. But rather than waiting until after Boehner moves into the House speaker's office, now occupied by California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Democrats are already using him as the focal point of their aggressive campaign to push back on a heavy Republican tide this fall. It's a criticize-and-ridicule strategy that both Republicans and Democrats have tried in the past, but political experts are doubtful that it will change voters' minds to a significant extent. Rather, its main impact could be to help energize disillusioned Democrats, encouraging them to contribute now and to vote in November. Boehner, who became House majority leader in 2005 following the resignation of Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, has led House Republicans since they became the minority party in 2006. Still, the celebrity—or notoriety, in Democratic eyes—is something quite new. As portrayed in the Democratic ads, the unabashed smoker, perpetually tanned golf lover, and 10-term House veteran would like to slash jobs for teachers and firefighters while protecting Wall Street businesses and millionaires. "There's a lot of talk about how Democrats are localizing the races," says one source close to the Democratic campaign. "We're tying Republican candidates to what the national Republican message is." Unlike his mentor, the fiery Newt Gingrich, Boehner hasn't been a publicity magnet. His rise through the Republican ranks was mostly quiet. But Democrats are blasting him as a tool of big business and a foe of working men and women. They are also jumping on his occasional gaffes, such as when he seemed to dismiss Wall Street abuses by describing the recently enacted financial reform bill as akin to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." The Democratic National Committee is seeking to make Boehner a regular on television, featuring him in many recently aired ads. One ad claims that Boehner's economic plans support businesses that send American jobs overseas. Another pokes fun at his reputed connections to Washington lobbyists, depicting "Boehner Land" as a world of tight connections between the Wall Street lobby and lawmakers. The ad uses information from a recent New York Times article, which highlighted Boehner's work with lobbyists during the passage of recent legislation. To kick off the campaign season, President Obama chose the same city where Boehner delivered an economic address last month: Cleveland. In case the significance might be missed, Obama mentioned him by name seven times. "There were no new policies from Mr. Boehner. There were no new ideas. There was just the same philosophy we already tried for the last decade—the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place: cut more taxes for millionaires and cut more rules for corporations," Obama said. The Democratic attention is intended to show Americans the consequences of a Republican takeover of the House. "It's safe to say that he's probably the most powerful unvetted leader in Washington," the Democratic source said, adding that Boehner also represents the Republican agenda if the GOP gains a House majority. Boehner provides a useful target for Democrats, who have found that focusing on former President George W. Bush is no longer a winning strategy, but who still want to highlight what they characterize as failed Republican policies of the past. For their part, Republicans are dismissing the focus on Boehner as an ugly personal attack designed to distract voters from the real issues. "While Democrats are determined to make this election about personalities, Republicans will continue talking about the issues that are important to American families when it comes to creating jobs and getting our economy moving again," says Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
This administration's desperation keeps showing. They rode the 'Bush's fault' line for a year and a half too long. Then tried attacking Fox News and got their ass handed to them. Then it was back to Palin, and as we see that just kept her highly visible, which also has hurt both the Administration and the Dem majority in Congress badly. So they came up with 'Lets make Boehner the boggie man!'. They simply couldn't have choosen a worse target for their aims. The guy is unknown outside of political junkies, and Ohio voters that love him. The rest of the country kept asking 'Who?'. Til they heard him respond via the lamestream media. Now, America knows the Congressman from Ohio has never taken an earmark, nor asked for one. They know he wants to cut both spending and taxes. They know his position on Owe-bama care six months ago was correct. Here in Ohio, since Owe-bama and company's latest 'big political move' Rob Portman has pulled out to a double digit lead over tired Lee Fisher, and Kasich is now leading our current idiot Governor Strickland outside the margin of error (6% lead as of yesterday in most polls). Owe-bama lost Ohio when it woke up from 'hope and change' and realized the result was 400,000 jobs LOST under Owe-bama and Strickland.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
an Ohio congressman who grew up in near poverty as an elitist country club Republican controlled by wealthy lobbyists.
#2. To: war (#1)
How Boehner came into this world is irrelevant to what he is now.
#3. To: mininggold (#2)
#4. To: All (#0)
In a recent speech, Mr Obama mentioned Mr Boehner by name nine times. A fundraising email sent out from BarackObama.com this week stated that corporate interests and lobbyists “have put all their chips on one man: Congressman John Boehner”.
#5. To: Murron (#0)
The alleged elitist country club Republican is an Ohio Congressman who grew up in near poverty.
#6. To: All (#0)
"If Republicans win back the House of Representatives in November, as polls indicate, he will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House".
#7. To: All (#6)
"It's safe to say that (Boehner) he's probably the most powerful unvetted leader in Washington," the Democratic source said",
#8. To: Murron (#7)
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