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Related: About this forumJohn Boehner’s Holiday Party Snub
by Michelle Cottle Dec 5, 2012 4:45 AM EST
Speaker Boehner declines to be photographed with President Obama at a holiday party. Michelle Cottle on the roots of political pettinessand what Boehner should do next year.
As party fouls go, John Boehners declining to get his photo taken with President Obama at the White House Christmas soiree is pretty innocuous. Its not like the Speaker lit up in the Blue Room, or started snacking on the traditional gingerbread White House, or tied one on and began crooning Clarence Carters Backdoor Santa to FLOTUS. (Although, how fantastic would that have been?)
Nonetheless, Boehners photographic demurrallike his ongoing refusal to attend State dinnersstands as yet one more example of the lack of civility and general pettiness that now reign inside the Beltway.
Of course, it also stands as proof that the speaker is no idiot and that he knows all too well that, should a merry grip-and-grin of him and Obama somehow make its way into the public eye during these oh-so-tense fiscal-cliff negotiations, the GOPs right flank would be all over his perma-tanned hide like a duck on a june bug.
Next thing you know, people in his caucus would be grumbling, Hes just not a believer like us. Hes over there yukking it up with President Obama! Did you see that picture of him and Obama together! Im sure that went through his mind, chuckles Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginias Center for Politics.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/05/john-boehner-s-holiday-party-snub.html
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John Boehner’s Holiday Party Snub (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2012
OP
It's for the better. I wouldn't want him puking all over the President's shoes. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#2
His constituents in Ohio would not like to see Boehner shaking hands with or having a picture
AlinPA
Dec 2012
#5
At times I said that the democrats have no backbone but when I keep hearing or reading how
Filibuster Harry
Dec 2012
#6
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. Meanwhile, the media claims Obama is unwilling to rub elbows with the GOP.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)2. It's for the better. I wouldn't want him puking all over the President's shoes. nt
FSogol
(45,488 posts)3. I imagine that a gin-soaked Boehner would damper any Holiday party.
at "Its not like the Speaker lit up in the Blue Room" since he's lit up in any room he visits.
EC
(12,287 posts)4. When he's old and grey
he'll wish he had that momento of him with the most famous president ever.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)5. His constituents in Ohio would not like to see Boehner shaking hands with or having a picture
taken with President Obama. He has to show his hatred for the President somehow.
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)6. At times I said that the democrats have no backbone but when I keep hearing or reading how
the Rs won't stand up to Grover or how they can't have a photo op with the president because of fear of being primaried then that is not only not having a backbone but it is not acting like a man.