Speaker-Elect Joe Camel

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John Boehner may have learned hard work in Ohio, but he learned who he had to work for in Washington.

I wonder how this chalks up with Boehner's attempts to paint himself as an opponent of "big government", seeing he had no problem with a govenrment big enough to subsidize the Tobacco industry.

That's my Congressman.

Hard work? All he does is play golf.

I'm mainly commenting on his whole autobiographical assertions to have "worked in my daddy's tavern since the age of eight" and "worked my way through college". I haven't looked to closely into them, but I'm sure serving Fortune 500 is a full-time job.

That part is true. He grew up poor and got rich as a businessman. He continues to push policies that will help businesses under the misguided assumption that anyone in poverty can just choose to become wealthy as he did.

Oddly enough, his political alignments (extremely pro-business on economic policy and, since 2001, neoconservative on foreign policy) do not really reflect the almost exclusively social conservative conserns of his constituents. People in Ohio's 8th Congressional District are Republicans because they think gays are gross, abortion is bad, and public schools should have Bible study, not because they are that terribly interested in economic policy. Boehner isn't a part of the Religious Right, but the greater part of his base is.