It's almost like he doesn't know when the Great Depression started.
John Boehner looks back to Nick Longworth
When today’s Capitol Hill insiders hear about Longworth, they most likely think about the House office building located between those named for more famous former Speakers: Joseph Cannon and Sam Rayburn.
But John Boehner has a more visceral connection: He sees Nick Longworth as a role model. Longworth, a popular House speaker during the 1920s, was a dealmaker, a believer in bipartisanship and, like Boehner, a Cincinnati politician who made it big in Washington.
Of course, by the end of the Longworth era we were in the middle of the Great Depression. And it took FDR and the New Deal to put America back on its feet. So forgive me Mr. Boehner if I don't want to see my country go back to the way things were done in the 1920s.