“The surprise election of Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio as House majority leader was a cry of concern by an entrenched Republican majority, acutely worried that voter unease about corruption and partisan excesses could threaten its control of Congress this November.” (New York Times )
Concern in the Republican ranks?? So what do the Republicans do about it? They give you a new boss who’s the same as the old boss, just billing him as a ‘fresh face’ and a reformer. Boehner (and don’t you dare pronounce it ‘boner’) just weeks ago refused to give back #30,000 he had received from the Indian tribes at Abramoff’s behest; he was distributing checks from the tobacco lobby to members of Congress on the floor several years ago; and he is so intimately connected to the lobbyists that he sleeps with one. When René Magritte captured the essence of surrealism by hanging a picture of a pipe with the legend “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, he created a profound sense of disquiet. When the Republicans do it, it is business as usual.
