From the Detroit Free Press:
Boehner, an Ohio Republican, sounded a disciplinarian note in his rebuttal to the Democratic president, saying that when voters gave his party the majority in the House last year, they expected reductions in government spending.
No, wrong Johnny Orange. What the low information voters who turned out in droves for you and your minions wanted can be divided into two camps. There are those who are suffering from unemployment or a house foreclosure. They are confused and in fear. And then there are the type of voters who simply wanted a return to the quick flip housing market, a return to the big ass S.U.V. in the gated community driveway, the weekend binge in Las Vegas, and in general, a return to the perverse notion that they were "in" that they were "players."
Far from their minds was a sweeping reduction in government spending. Most of them couldn't understand the dynamics of finance anyway (call me a liberal elitist, but a 70,000 dollar equity hit back in 2007 for a Lexus S.U.V. isn't an investment a family should make for the future.)
Now, what you, Johnny were sent to the House of Representatives for is obvious: To serve and protect your wealthy patrons that you knock back highballs and play bubble butt golf with. It's your patriotic duty to sell the American public snake oil town by town and make P.T. Barnum proud of your hucksterism.
But, Fast Johnny, for your own sake, get out of town before the village idiots realize that that patented tonic you sold them is, what did you call it a couple of summers ago? "Chicken crap?" Don't get me wrong Orange Julius, we want to believe you have control over your knuckle draggers in Congress (sadly, you don't.) But to distort your November 2010 victory as a mandate for hauling in the debt is a lie. How in the hell can your constituents call for fiscal responsibility from the government when they can't even practice fiscal responsibility in their own lives?
At any rate, you seem to be off message lately, so here's the late great Marlon Brando to review your mission statement for you.