Nov
11
2010
Authorities in Ohio are hunting for a man they say created a phony veterans’ charity to steal millions from donors and to get close to prominent Republican politicians, including former president George W. Bush and the likely next House speaker, John Boehner, ABC News reported. Ohio prosecutors said the suspect, who went by the name [...]
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Nov
8
2010
Has there ever been a passel of politicians as sure of the will of “the American people” as our current crop? In the days since the midterm election, that phrase has been invoked by Obama, Pelosi, Mack, DeMint, and so on and so on. But the recent champion is surely John Boehner, the putative next [...]
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Nov
3
2010
Roseanne Cash, the singer-songwriter daughter of the late Johnny Cash, isn’t going to walk the line with House Minority Leader John Boehner anytime soon. Cash, in a Twitter posting, told Boehner — the man who could soon be speaker of the House — to stop using her late father’s “name as a punchline” in his [...]
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Oct
3
2010
It was some performance. Dull. Nothing of consequence. No news. Nothing that was headline material. And that’s how House GOP leader John Boehner wanted it. On Thursday afternoon, Boehner delivered a speech titled “Congressional Reform and ‘The People’s House’ ” at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and he said nothing at all about campaign [...]
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Oct
3
2010
It was some performance. Dull. Nothing of consequence. No news. Nothing that was headline material. And that’s how House GOP leader John Boehner wanted it. On Thursday afternoon, Boehner delivered a speech titled “Congressional Reform and ‘The People’s House’ ” at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and he said nothing at all about campaign [...]
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Sep
8
2010
John Boehner, the perpetually caramel-complexioned leader of House Republicans, gamely defended his famous tan in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday morning. After a weighty discussion about economic policy and taxes, Stephanopoulos presented the GOP leader with the results of a recent PPP poll that showed 30 percent of Ohio voters believe Boehner “spends [...]
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