Senator John F. Kennedy wrote a Pulitzer prize winning book of short biographies about eight Senators who had demonstrated great courage under enormous pressure from their parties and their constituents, entitled Profiles in Courage (1957).
If a similar scholarly work were written today about members of the House, the TanMan from Ohio, Weeper of the House John Boehner, most certainly would not qualify for this book.
This chain smoking alcoholic who once passed out checks from Big Tobacco to bribe members for their votes on the floor of the House, Did John Boehner really pass out tobacco bribe checks on the House Floor? (yes he did, and he admitted to it), deserves his own chapter titled “Profiles in Cowardice.”
Speaker Boehner has presided over the less-than-do-nothing 112th Congress, and followed up this failure with the even more spectacular failure of the less-than-less-than-do-nothing 113th Congress. This craven coward lives in fear of his own radical extremist Tea Party Caucus, and he cares more about his job title and perks than the best interests of the country or the American people. He is the weakest and most ineffectual Speaker of the House in modern American history. Boehner is unquestionably and without equal the “Worst. Speaker. Ever.”
