@blatham,
An “excellent piece”, huh? I can’t stand the different degrees of revisionist history that republicans will indulge in – all to wash the stain of complicity from themselves. Complicity with a republican party that has buddied up with racist wackos and fellated the NRA for decades. At least someone like Lindsay Graham is transparent with his schizophrenic disingenuousness. He does his flip flops from strong, independent thinker to Trump throne sniffer right out in public.
John Boehner was best buddies with Roger Ailes and was totally blindsided by it when Ailes pushed Obama-hating conspiracy theories. Yeah, okay.
Boehner saw Michelle Bachman as a lunatic at first, but after getting her on the House Intelligence Community came to know her as a “focused... hard-working” asset to the party. How can you claim Bachman as a positive for Republicans while pretending to bewail the **** show republicans have become?
Now - now after four years of insane destruction that was cheered on or at least unopposed by the Republicans, now John Boehner wants to make sure he’s marked down as having always been for sanity.
John Boehner says his plan was to find ways to work with Obama, while still standing strong for “Republican principles” (whatever the **** that means). He says his plan was thwarted by all the crazies who took over the party and the media. This is the same John Boehner who said this about Obama’s agenda right before he became speaker of the house:
“We’re going to do everything we can - and I mean everything- to kill it, stop it, slow it down.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromise-pledge-044311
But this was an “excellent piece”, by Boehner, and “who knew?”, right? Well I guess you’re praising the quality of writing, because if you’re praising the content for it’s accuracy or the man for his integrity, you’re full of it.