Blumenthal: John Boehner is 'alcoholic,' 'lazy,' 'banal'

Washington Examiner ^ | 8/31/15 | Pete Kasperowicz

[maddog55]

Hillary Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal had nothing but bad things to say about incoming House Speaker John Boehner on the day Republicans won back the House from Democrats in 2010, according to new emails released by the State Department late Monday.

"Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior."

"He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle," he added.

According to dictionary.com, "louche" means "dubious, shady, disreputable."

"He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a 'revolution,' riding the crest into power," Blumenthal continued as he described Boehner, R-Ohio. "He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty."

He also said Boehner "twitches" if the conservative base makes "gestures that might undermine his position."

[Norm Lenhart]

Hard to find a fault in his observation.

[dennisw]

An alkie with crying jags -— John Boehner

[Kanzan]

Boehner is coming to Kansas this week to campaign for a primary challenger to Huelskamp, Heads up, First District.

[freedomfiter2]

Wow. You never let a liberal position go by without adopting it.

[KC_Lion]

“The GOP used the far right and Palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. Attacking Palin only builds her stature with the right. She plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her?”

WOW! Sarah has made all the right enemies on both the left and the right!

I am very proud of her, she is measured by the hate people have for her, and she is hated by all the right people.

So SCREW THEM!

[Norm Lenhart]

He seems to have a knack for it. Read his post history sometime. Quite entertaining.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Well, “drunk on bourbon” would certainly explain a lot...

[Jane Long]

LOL!

[Jane Long]

Amen. Agree. Sarah does know how to play the long game. I like who her true friends are.

[tanknetter]

This email is good stuff.

But it makes me wonder what else is out there waiting to be found. I can’t imagine that the Hillary camp was any less disdainful about Republicans than they were about their own rivals within the Democratic Party.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“And yet FR’s liberal wing demanded we re elect him.”

Too many

[katana]

Naturally it was a woman who got the joke. :-)

[Jane Long]

LOL, again!

You might get a kick out of this...sort of goes along with your post :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNOQsf3UwAEYLpB.jpg

(James Woods posted it on twitter...he comes up with some goodies :)

[lonevoice]

:-D

[katana]

Thanks. I just sent that to a friend who sends me a half dozen jokes every day, with the caption “Ouch! Oh wait, never mind.”

[minnesota_bound]

There must be an email about obama and Valerie Jarrett from him.

[Democratic-Republican]

https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0106/DOC_0C05771375/C05771375.pdf

>> From: sbwhoeop
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 8:33 PM B6
>> To: H
>> Subject: Re: H: election day memo on post-midterms. Sid
>> Exits show 50 plus loss in house and 7-8 senate
>> Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless

> From: H
> To: "'sbwhoeop
> Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 23:39:46 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: H: election day memo on post-midterms. Sid
> Thx, as always, for your insights. I'm on a plane on the way to Papua New Guinea for the next 6 hours so pis email me results as you get them. Needless to say, I'm so distressed over all of this.
> All the best, H

From: sbwhoeop
To: H
Sent: Tue Nov 02 16:55:51 2010
Subject: H: election day memo on post-midterms. Sid

November 2, 2010
For: Hillary
From: Sid
Re: Post mid-terms strategy

What I hear from Republican sources and elsewhere and what it means for Republican strategy:

• 1. Rove is telling his donors that the ticket in 2012 is Romney/Barbour. Haley Barbour is Rove’s ally. Together they constitute the heart of the GOP establishment. In a potential Republican administration Barbour would be a new kind of Cheney, but more politically skillful.

• 2. Rove is at war with Palin. He has told his donors she must be stopped. Palin is well aware. The Politico story filled with anonymous quotes about a murky establishment vs. Palin is about the Death Star of Rove/Barbour. Ironies: Rove doubled down on a base strategy for Bush, galvanizing the right wing, now spun out of his control to Palin. The GOP used the far right and Palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. Attacking Palin only builds her stature with the right. She plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her?

• 3. Palin has already aligned Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on her side. Fox News is being split. Murdoch gave his big donation to the Republican Governors Association, headed by Barbour.

• 4. Malcolm Hoenlein has been raising money hand over fist for the Republicans through Eric Cantor, now his vehicle. The donors are many of the same US donors to Bibi and Likud. Implications obvious.

• 5. The House Republicans have already planned to primary all Senate Republican moderates in the next cycle. Olympia Snowe is a particular target.

• 6. In the Senate, Jim DeMint continues to be a Fifth Column of the right, allied to the House Republicans, against remaining Senate GOP moderates. He will be reinforced after this election with Rand Paul, et al. Paul, of course, hates Mitch McConnell, and vice versa.

• 7. McConnell’s statement the day before the mid-terms that the goal of the GOP is to make Obama a one term president is, in fact, their agenda. Everything in the House and Senate will be bent to that end.

• 8.Can the House Republicans and Senate Republicans restrain themselves in their own interest and McConnell’s stated aim? Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference. They are repelled by his personal behavior. He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle. Boehner has already tried to buy the members with campaign contributions and committee assignments, which he has already promised to potentially difficult members. His hold is insecure. He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a “revolution,” riding the crest into power. He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody’s enduring loyalty. Boehner is beholden and somewhat scared of his base. He twitches when they make gestures that might undermine his position. His impulse is to hand out money. His aim is to recreate DeLay, Inc, with Jerry Lewis, who will be the new chairman of Appropriations. But Boehner is neither feared nor loved. He’s a would-be DeLay without the whip. He’s the one at the end of the lash. Which means he will be under great pressure and find it hard to sustain a moderate, reasonable strategy of restraint. McConnell is relatively in the same position in the Senate. On the other hand, the Congressional Republicans are vulnerable to a strategy that takes advantage of their internal divisions. Policies/tactics should be calculated to locate GOP fissures, find political space by widening schisms, and ultimately break them apart. This is, emphatically, not a strategy of bipartisanship as Obama has pursued it so far. It is a different and more informed approach."

Thanks for posting that maggief! I hope people are mining all the Hillary emails and especially looking for any hidden deep cover (R)epublicrat traitors and signs of blackmail.

Blumenthal sure got a lot of things right in that memo. Note that last part about strategy. We wonder how Obamacare didn't get thwarted? It's because the enemy was playing them from day one as Blumenthal suggests. They were using a high level strategy while we were mired down in details and intrigue. I wonder how they managed to control Boner, McConnell and the GOPe? Blackmail? That is something to search for.