Strength
According to House Speaker John Boehner, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is wrong when she
called him the weakest speaker in history.
Says Boehner of his doubters:
“You’re missing my style, all right?” Boehner told us in an interview. “I don’t need to be out there beating the drum every day. My job as the leader is to build my team, encourage my members, help provide leadership to my members and committee chairs and let the institution work.
“It doesn’t need the heavy hand of the speaker all over everything.”
Yes, Boehner is no drum beater. For example, in the very same interview:
Boehner confirmed what a Republican aide had described to POLITICO as his “obsession” with Benghazi. “Four Americans lost their lives,” he said. “And what’s irritating to me to no end is that, for eight months, the administration refuses to tell the truth of why there wasn’t more security there, why the rescuers weren’t allowed to go in to help.”
And that's not all he wants to know. He even wants to know where Obama was during the attack:
Boehner will even press to know the president’s location on the night of the attacks, which the White House has not disclosed. “I do think it matters,” he said. “When did the president know that this was an organized terrorist attack? I think that’s a legitimate question. Why did the president, for 15 days, try to describe it as something other than what it was? We’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
What a great question. Heck, maybe Obama
actually was in Benghazi, looking for his birth certificate or something. As Darrell Issa says, you can fly there commercial in just seven hours. If it weren't for the fact that Issa is totally full of crap, Obama easily could have pulled off a Mark Sanford and hiked the trail to Libya.
So Boehner isn't a drum beater or a weak speaker: He's just a guy obsessed with Benghazi who also happens be the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill. And apparently he's used his talents to give us Issa and the Benghazi hearings circus. What a guy. He's perfect for the GOP.
