{"id":38944,"date":"2013-10-01T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/john-boehner-hoist-on-his-own-petard.html"},"modified":"2013-10-02T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:44:47","slug":"john-boehner-hoist-on-his-own-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/john-boehner-hoist-on-his-own-petard.html","title":{"rendered":"John Boehner, hoist on his own petard"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, if you listen to BusinessWeek (that bastion of crazy liberals), Boehner is not a hapless victim here, but an intentional co-conspirator in his own party's meltdown.<\/p>\n

I'd give a shiny nickel to jump forward in time 50 years and get that perspective on what's going on right now.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yes, It Is John Boehner’s Fault<\/a>
\n He boxed himself in over the Affordable Care Act three years ago and now seems trapped\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, if you listen to BusinessWeek (that bastion of crazy liberals), Boehner is not a hapless victim here, but an intentional co-conspirator in his own party's meltdown. I'd give a shiny nickel to jump forward in time 50 years and get that perspective on what's going on right now. Yes, It Is John Boehner’s Fault … Continue reading “John Boehner, hoist on his own petard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128166,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/some-more-articles-on-the-boehner-resignation.html","url_meta":{"origin":38944,"position":0},"title":"Some more articles on the Boehner resignation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Sep-15 4:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"The irony is that Boehner is, in fact, deeply conservative -- but interested in government that works. 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