{"id":184886,"date":"2011-12-22T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/22\/it-sucks-to-be-john-boehner\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:05:00","slug":"it-sucks-to-be-john-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/22\/it-sucks-to-be-john-boehner\/","title":{"rendered":"It Sucks to be John Boehner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, orange, likely drinking problem, looks like a poster child for sex without partners, so it <b>always<\/b> sucks to be him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that today, it sucks even more, because he had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/boehner-2-month-tax-cut-would-hurt-small-businesses\/2011\/12\/22\/gIQA5ClZBP_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back down on his attempt to short circuit the 2 month extension of payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem here is that he backed out on a deal that he cut with, among other folks, the Senate <b>Republicans<\/b>, because he has no control of his caucus, and once the members of his caucus realized that they looked like complete prats, though not as complete as John Boy, <b>they<\/b> got in his face too.<\/p>\n<p>When one looks at the basic mechanics of the office of Speaker of the House, and excludes the prism of ideology, Boehner is still the worst speaker in recent memory:&nbsp; He can&#8217;t count votes, and he can&#8217;t hold onto them, and he cannot protect his caucus from their own worst impulses.<\/p>\n<p>The word is that it&#8217;s Eric Cantor who is setting himself up for this sh%$, because he wants the gavel, but Boehner, having attempted an unsuccessful coup against Gingrich in the 1990s, should know what is going on, and how to deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, orange, likely drinking problem, looks like a poster child for sex without partners, so it always sucks to be him. It&#8217;s just that today, it sucks even more, because he had to back down on his attempt to short circuit the 2 month extension of payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1086,982,983,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-social-safety-net","category-stupid","category-taxes","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}