John Boehner's one-for-the-road

Matt Drudge has a couple memoirs up on his page. One by Hunter Biden, one by John Boehner. Hunter's is probably better. Reckon I'll look at the second one.

The ex-Speaker Boehner did have some successes in the House. One of them was finding Michelle Bachmann, who started 2007, something to do in 2011: the Intelligence Committee. Bachmann - if Boehner says so himself - did well at that.

Boehner rips, absolutely rips, the Nirth Certifikit nonsense rife through Right circles in 2009. I took a hiatus from such circles that year. I only rejoined - I only could rejoin - when Ace commenter "Progress Over Peace" offered a credible alternative to the Ineligibility meme, namely that Barack Obama had presented himself to university as a foreign exchange student. Did I give that meme any credence, myself? Ehh. As I recall, I considered this guy eligible by technicality. Much like Biden's victory last November.

On the minus side of this new book, if people were murmuring that Boehner might have a slight drinking problem, the title and cover of his memoir isn't helping his case: On The House. Really? Does this also mean I get to read your book for free? I suppose I'm commenting on a free chapter therefrom, so: slainte. I mean, once these days of dark memory have passed and Our Lord rises again . . .

As for Obama's relationship to America - pace Boehner, it was always strained at best. I recall when this President got most upset was when the Congress failed to pass a Federal "gun sense" bill in the wake of Aurora. He certainly never got this upset about Benghazi. Pam Geller, for all her faults, wrote a pretty decent summary of first-term Obamism in The Post American Presidency. Dinesh D'Souza wrote a better book, and then a documentary so based that Obama had his lackey "justice" Preet Bharara send him to a halfway-house. Obama was a "New Party" new-Left minion, a middleman between Ayers and Soros with not a little of Jeremiah Wright. From 2013 he encouraged the #woke cultural-revolution (It's On Us, Ferguson etc) which we suffer today.

Boehner finds fault with the above summary. He pretends Soros is naught but a Right bogeyman. He ignores Soros funding... what we see in our cities today; he ignores Wright-like reverends egging it on. it just shows how far America and the West have drifted, that these people could be considered mainstream now. Where was Boehner?

As to Benghazi, excuse me: but did 13 Hours... not happen? Was it not a total failure of Obama's Cabinet? Also, that Cabinet pinned it all on some nowhere Coptic showman on a bad Youtube channel. Is Boehner agreeing? Boehner just praised himself for putting Bachmann on the relevant committee; as of September 2012, Bachmann was no longer running for (that) office but had aligned behind the nominee Mitt Romney. Bachmann knew there was something wrong with the Obama / Clinton / Kerry triumvirate (Biden, we've learnt, wasn't consulted). Again: where was Boehner?

There is a serious question of focus, in Boehner's book. Boehner can justifiably speak to Right insanity in 2009. (In 2021, one like him could speak to Right media giving air to the Berenson bears.) But I think Boehner should speak more strongly to Obama's divisive leadership, to Washington's general failure to secure the border, to the collapse of Libya and Syria (ISIS, I'd pin more on the Iraqis), above all to Cancel Culture. Boehner has missed this opportunity to argue for the Right, despite the foibles of Rightists.

Boehner's sin was always acedia. The man should cut down on his drinking.