John Boehner

 A fantastic Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone...

In sports, we talk about athletes who are the "total package," and that term comes close to describing Boehner's talent for perpetuating our corrupt and debt-addled status quo: He's a five-tool insider who can lie, cheat, steal, play golf, change his mind on command and do anything else his lobbyist buddies and campaign contributors require of him to get the job done.

For me, Boehner and his politics are reminders of the years I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. One of the most regressive and lizard-brained populations in the country—where thrived a smug Republicanism that didn't bother to hide its corporatist motivations.

In the late 80s and throughout the 90s, state and national politicians in southwest Ohio blithely consumed and dispensed the ideological turds of Ronald Reagan.

I believe the right-wing's initiative to get the middle class to vote consistently against its own interests really succeeded  there for the first time—possibly the birth place of today's Tea Party.