'Louche' = dubious, shady, disreputable
'Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," (Sidney) Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior.'
'He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle,' he added.
'He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a revolution, riding the crest into power,'... 'He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty.'
'Boehner is neither feared nor loved,' he goes on. "He's a would-be DeLay without the whip. He's the one at the end of a lash."
Blumenthal said then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is "relatively in the same position in the Senate."
Alas, at that time neither Hill nor Blumenthal seem to suspect what utter control the White House would come to have over Boehner... besides all the obvious deficiencies and character-flaws noted in the Blumenthal e-mail, Obama actually seems to own Boehner... what other possible explanation could there be the way he lies-down for anything-and-everything Dear Leader wants in 2 seconds?
That Clinton and Blumenthal were discussing Boehner's abilities in this manner indicates she was never really in the White House loop, and they had no idea the level of control Obama would be able to exert over the new GOP House majority. And now that same dark power the White House has been wielding over the Boehner/McConnell -apparently derived from domestic spying/extortion- is being used against Hillary.
His highly-politicized, unthethered-by-shame government enjoys technical capabilities for spying that should bring a shiver to your spine
(even if we actually had a decent man as president), so for an utterly wicked Chicago politician like himself it's like it's a kid in a candy store.
(even if we actually had a decent man as president), so for an utterly wicked Chicago politician like himself it's like it's a kid in a candy store.
Hillary now knows the highly-damaging leaks broadsiding her campaign have been coming from the White House, and must wonder what else they've got on her... Obama's peeps have been building the file since 2007, if not earlier (and visa-versa).
So maybe now she too can see how they've emasculated and utterly controlled (blackmailed?) John Boehner, and must surely wonder what else they've got on either Clinton-- while it couldn't be more obvious that the White House fully opposes a Hillary Clinton presidency.
World's-biggest-hillary-hater Dick Morris says 'Hillary never quits' and predicts she'll fight-to-the-death... meaning perhaps we will indeed get to see just what kind of dirt the White House can produce.
This vile administration doesn't allow house speakers, supreme justices, or anybody else get in the way of promoting it's 'revolution' (nor endanger Obama's 'legacy')-- but Boehner, McConnell, Judge Roberts all got off easy, because they did as they were told.
We may never know what secrets/crimes were held over their heads or what threats were made... all we'll know is our democracy was heavily compromised by a stealth dictator, Republicans sold-out, American voters robbed... and the commies won, again-and-again.
The Clintons on the other hand are an aggressive threat in Obama's eyes- one that isn't bending to his will, so thus one to be destroyed. This has got to be the first time I've ever rooted for Obama in anything, but the Dems have got a weak, weak 2016 bench.
This is gonna be good...
