{"id":11158,"date":"2015-09-28T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:00:52","slug":"boehner-is-burning-key-congressional-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11158","title":{"rendered":"Boehner is burning key congressional bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/john_boehner_ap_328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11131\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/john_boehner_ap_328-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"john_boehner_ap_328\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/john_boehner_ap_328-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/john_boehner_ap_328.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Boehner is showing some spunk now that he&#8217;s a declared short-timer in the halls of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the House of Representatives announced his planned resignation from Congress, effective Oct. 30. He&#8217;s weary of the constant fighting with TEA Party members of his GOP caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s word he might become a lobbyist after waiting a year, per House rules for former lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does he do? He starts torching the &#8220;false prophets&#8221; who gave him so much hell as he tried to manage the House&#8217;s legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Those &#8220;false prophets&#8221; well could become potential sources for the clients he would represent lobbying for their interests in the halls of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up, then, with the speaker burning that key bridge?<\/p>\n<p>It might be that Boehner could spend the next year campaigning for more moderate and, dare I say, reasonable Republicans. Those individuals, then, could be his target audience as he starts lobbying them for legislation favorable to whomever he hopes to\u00a0represent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Boehner has liberated himself from the shackles of trying to please the multi-faceted elements within his own political party, let alone trying to find common ground with congressional <em>Democrats<\/em>, who are angry with him for kowtowing to the TEA Party in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>You go, Mr. Speaker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner is showing some spunk now that he&#8217;s a declared short-timer in the halls of Congress. The speaker of the House of Representatives announced his planned resignation from Congress, effective Oct. 30. He&#8217;s weary of the constant fighting with TEA Party members of his GOP caucus. 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