Update: so apparently I've been had. This is not a real article, but a fake post from a rumor mill site. My apologies: I wasn't the only one taken in by this, but even so I should have been more careful about checking original sources. Not deleting the diary, but if you've recommended this, please unrecommend so that a worthy article may displace it.
Here's the original diary:
Apologies if this has already been diaried (a search turned up nothing on it), but John Boehner apparently committed political seppuku in an interview with Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone set to appear in June. Digby covers it here, and The Young Turks cover it as well.
My normal florid commentary escapes me, except to say 1) "Wait, a minute, did John Boehner actually say that out loud?" and 2) If Democrats cannot make hay out of this for the next 18 months to regain the House, we deserve to lose every election from here on out.
Here is the jaw-dropping section that has been released:
Boehner: "Can't pay your student loan? Face it your parents were lazy and you couldn't afford college. The world needs ditch diggers and you were born into a family of them. Can't pay your mortgage? Your house was too expensive and you couldn't afford it. Your taxes going up too much? That's what you get for electing a democrat president. Never had a job after you got a degree? You learned nothing in school and you're lazy. I didn't get to be a congressman by watching jersey shore or playing xbox. You think there's no jobs for you? There used to be. There was when I was your age. You don't have fee time because you have to work all days of the week for 16 hours a day and you don't get paid hourly? Thank the unions. They made decent jobs so out of price range of the average American company that they can't hire anymore people and the works' gotta get done. These unions... I tell you they won't be happy till no one in America has a job. And health care? Don't get me started on health care- doctors study their entire lives and they barely make enough to live and yet Obama, who had his entire life handed to him on a silver plate wants to cut their pay. You know that's gonna do? Increase costs- the average persons going to have to work even harder just to see a doctor. "
Taibbi: "With mounting unemployment what do you think is the possibility that we'll see an Egyptian style uprising of the youth? Should we be worried?"
Boehner: "It's not going to happen in the US. The kids here are too fat, too lazy, to addicted to TV, fast food, cheap credit, and facebook. I have news for you- there are plenty of jobs out there- the unemployed don't want them. Today's college student feels entitled to make at least $24 right after college. When they find out they can collect unemployment they would rather do that. You know the average college educated unemployed person is collecting $60k a year? The CATO institute did a study- and I mean, you and me we're hard workers we could just sit around and live, but these kids today- that's all they've been doing their entire lives. I'm not worried for this country- there are a few of them who actually want to work, take Mark Zucker(sic). You don't build a site like facebook out of thin air- it takes talent and hard work. I went to a community college and all I saw were people sitting in front of computers typing away, their eyes were fixed. Probably just facebooking away."
No kidding, America. He apparently actually said that, and not just behind closed doors with his John Galt wannabe pals. This man and the people entities he serves are so far removed from the realities faced by most Americans that it's shameful he calls himself a "representative."
Real America, the next move is yours.