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John Boehner was an unpopular man within his own party. What always amazes me is how hardcore dems say things like "he should have just gotten out of the way of progress" i.e. that he should have supported the dems party line.
Think a minute - if he had, would he ever have been elected, much less allowed to be speaker? The members of his party expect him to fight for *their* ideals.
His inability to effectively counter the dems, when he had a clear, large majority in the house and a majority in the senate was what made him unpopular. Today the speaker can't be a backroom drinker like Boehner - he (or she) needs to be a mini-president.
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