Boehner laments the loss of the America he grew up in......

[marmar]

Gee, and what America would that be, Agent Orange?






from the NY Times:


READING, Ohio — John A. Boehner, the House Republican leader, laments that the America he grew up in has been “snuffed out” by Democrats. Yet Mr. Boehner’s hometown seems virtually untouched by the decades that have passed since he lugged kegs of beer around his father’s bar, tossed a Friday night football and frightened a driving instructor by burning rubber in a GTO.

The same Cape Cod houses dot the roadsides, among a smattering of family businesses. On the hill where Mr. Boehner grew up with 11 siblings, there are remnants of the fence that kept cows at bay. Mr. Boehner’s sister tends the bar his family ran through much of the last century.

With Republicans increasingly confident that they will capture the House in November, Mr. Boehner stands likely to become speaker and to lead his party’s effort to turn the nation in a new direction after two years under President Obama and the Democrats. It seems that almost everything about him stems from this spot at the southern tip of Ohio.

It defined his political viewpoints, shaped by his working-class Roman Catholic family. It formed his passions (golf, football, more golf), kindled his love of sharp clothes (and his caustic commentary about others’ wardrobes) and presaged his political trajectory, one influenced by his experience as a businessman and largely ignited by a lobbyist who became his patron and the first of many lobbyist-friends in his orbit. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/us/politics/15boehner.html?_r=1&ref=politics

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I lament the loss of the one of ten years ago

Before the age of fear.. So there

[Enthusiast]

15. Ain't that the truth...nt

[gmoney]

2. so the Tea Party thing is one big mid-life crisis?

That explains a lot... the disconnection from reality

[Hello_Kitty]

14. I'm almost 42 and I consider myself mid-life. Most teabaggers seem to be older than me.

So I'm calling it a geriatric hissyfit.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Which America was that?

Oh yeah...

The racist, misogynistic, holier-than-thou, repressive, stupid America.


Funny......I don't miss it.


:mad:

[madrchsod]

10. neither do i....but i do miss

having good paying jobs that paid the bills,bought the house,and paid for our kids education. remember when the millions of union jobs raised everyone`s pay?


my daughter and two son`s are making the same in real dollars as i did in 1973-79.

[RagAss]

4. Deranged Slapdick !

[DainBramaged]

5. Could they be any more in love with him?

What Liberal media?

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Yep, that's a 'piece' alright

I'll leave it to each of you to decide what sort of 'piece' it is. Who are these 'reporters' anyway? Designated GOP fluffers?

[dflprincess]

7. Does he mean the America where a working class person like his dad

could have a job that paid enough he could afford to buy a house in the 'burbs, a new car every few years, maybe take a vacation and send the kids to college?

I miss that part of it.

[classysassy]

8. Another myth

America has never afforded all it's citizens with the things you mentioned,only a small percentage of our citizens were able to afford those things.The wealthy have brainwashed Americans into believing that the middle class were living the good like in the so called good old days and the liberals are the cause of the decline of their living standards,when in reality the real reason is the outsourcing of jobs so the rich can increase their profits.

[dflprincess]

11. In the 50s & 60s and into the 70s, before outsourcing and the union busting it was possible

for blue collar workers to earn a wage that not only provided a decent standard of living but allowed for some luxuries. In the late 60s and early 70s it was possible for a kid to earn enough to pay tuition at a state school with a part time job so even if parents couldn't help, you could put yourself through school and not graduate deeply in debt.

[704wipes]

9. Yeah, really the $8.25/hr jobs are still around, John

So you could not miss that by dragging your sorry fucking ORANGE ass back to Ohio and taking one of them, scumbag.
Don't miss out on your chance Johnny Boy.

[applegrove]

12. Exactly!

[napi21]

13. There are parts of days gone by that I miss too.

I miss the security of the bustling steel mills of Pgh. where most of our neighbors had good jobs and living a decent life required only ONE worker per household.

I miss the days when politics was politics & religion was religion & they never mixed!

I miss going to the local baker shop where we knew all the people who worked there the wonder smell even as you walked up to their door So diff. than the bakery at the supermarket now.

There were no Kmarts, Wms, Sams, BJs or Costco's but we got what we needed at the local shops in town & the 5 & 10 just up the street.


Those days are gone forever Mr. Boner...never to return. It's NOT the Dems fault either! It's Reagan destroying the labor unions and dreaming up his trickle down monetary policy, and YOUR greedy friends who figured out how much more $$ they could make if they had slaves in China make their goods instead of people here in the US. It's GHWB's idea of a New World Order that has almost succeeded in reducing the American worker to equal those slave workers in the 3rd world countries that have given you the world you see today. I dont like it either, but YOU & your cohorts in crime sure won't make it any better!!!@

[Radical Activist]

16. He went to a private high school that opened up right around the time of desegregation.

I wonder what the racial makeup of his graduating class was.

[political_Dem]

17. Well, if he and his cohorts try to take civil rights away from any disenfranchised group

they'll have a fight on their hands. There are a lot of us who do not want to go back to the fifties. My parents and older relatives suffered under the yoke of Jim Crow and lethal racism. So, Boehner can cry his ass off if he wants. The change in this country is bigger than just Mr. Obama's presidency. People are at their emotional breaking point due to the lack of social mobility. That action leads to social revolution--if forward-thinking and righteous leadership guide the way.