King of the Real Americans
by digby
This is from the upcoming Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone interview with John Boehner
Boehner: “Can’t pay your student loan? Face it your parents were lazy and you couldn’t afford college. The world needs ditch diggers and you were born into a family of them. Can’t pay your mortgage? Your house was too expensive and you couldn’t afford it. Your taxes going up too much? That’s what you get for electing a democrat president. Never had a job after you got a degree? You learned nothing in school and you’re lazy. I didn’t get to be a congressman by watching jersey shore or playing xbox. You think there’s no jobs for you? There used to be. There was when I was your age. You don’t have fee time because you have to work all days of the week for 16 hours a day and you don’t get paid hourly? Thank the unions. They made decent jobs so out of price range of the average American company that they can’t hire anymore people and the works’ gotta get done. These unions… I tell you they won’t be happy till no one in America has a job. And health care? Don’t get me started on health care- doctors study their entire lives and they barely make enough to live and yet Obama, who had his entire life handed to him on a silver plate wants to cut their pay. You know that’s gonna do? Increase costs- the average persons going to have to work even harder just to see a doctor. Taibbi: “With mounting unemployment what do you think is the possibility that we’ll see an Egyptian style uprising of the youth? Should we be worried?” Boehner: “It’s not going to happen in the US. The kids here are too fat, too lazy, to addicted to TV, fast food, cheap credit, and facebook. I have news for you – there are plenty of jobs out there – the unemployed don’t want them. Today’s college student feels entitled to make at least $24 right after college. When they find out they can collect unemployment they would rather do that. You know the average college educated unemployed person is collecting $60k a year? The CATO institute did a study- and I mean, you and me we’re hard workers we could just sit around and live, but these kids today- that’s all they’ve been doing their entire lives. I’m not worried for this country- there are a few of them who actually want to work, take Mark Zucker(sic). You don’t build a site like facebook out of thin air- it takes talent and hard work. I went to a community college and all I saw were people sitting in front of computers typing away, their eyes were fixed. Probably just facebooking away.
Also probably not a good idea to get shitfaced with Matt Taibbi with the recorder on.
I actually think this is great. This is how most Republicans think and it’s good to see it right out there for all to see. When you peel away all the Bible verses and the red white and blue and the constitutional gibber jabber, this is what you have — a cynical white guy with a chip on his shoulder a mile wide, just sure that the country’s going to hell in a handbasket because nobody’s quite as good as he is. (Oh yes, and the equally supercilious women who love them…)
He’s not lying. He honestly believes that wages are just too damned high, that unions are destroying jobs, that health care reform is killing people and that upper middle class professionals should be pitied for the lousy money they make. I’m sure corporations shouldn’t be taxes and neither should the wealthy because it’s punishing ‘winners” — and lord knows he loves winners. Like him. A couple of glasses of his favorite Merlot and you’d start hearing about the freeloading “minorities” and the uppity bitches too, bet on it.
When I used to listen to my Dad and his cronies go on about this crap over a couple of drinkie winkies, I could at least excuse them for the fact that they were old and had actually done one big thing in their lives that mattered — they saved the world from Hitler. What the hell has Boehner ever done to earn his own high opinion besides his seven handicap and whoring himself to every rich old bastard in Ohio?
This is the worldview of the powerful middle aged conservative. They feel they deserve what they have and more — and nobody else can hold a candle to them. They are, simply the best, better than all the rest. If they aren’t, why are they running everything?
h/t to Pam’s House Blend truthdig and rumormiller.com
Update: Hah. Apparently, this may be a hoax. If so, it’s a damned good one. It sounds exactly like every other privileged jerk out there. I saw it originally on Young Turks and then Pam had it and I didn’t check the rumormiller link, just did the polite thing and linked them. My fault for not going there.
But hey, when you’re known for your tippling and your loathing of working people, this is exactly the kind of thing people will believe of you…
Let’s face it. It really is what they believe.