{"id":409,"date":"2011-02-25T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-02-25T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:07:58","slug":"john-boehner-once-actually-handed-out-tobacco-cheques-on-the-floor-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"John Boehner once actually handed out tobacco checks on the floor of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Ando for reminding me about this.<\/p>\n

Just to remind you of the kind of douchebags Republicans have devolved into over the past 20 years. Get this, in 1995, now Speaker of the House John Boehner (and coincidentally, a unapologetic chain-smoker) actually handed out cheques<\/a> from a tobacco PAC to House members on the floor of the House just before a vote regarding tobacco subsidies. I mean, this shit should have gotten him thrown in prison and now he’s the Speaker of the House.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The dude just reeks of “sleaze.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Ando for reminding me about this. Just to remind you of the kind of douchebags Republicans have devolved into over the past 20 years. Get this, in 1995, now Speaker of the House John Boehner (and coincidentally, a unapologetic chain-smoker) actually handed out cheques from a tobacco PAC to House members on the … Continue reading John Boehner once actually handed out tobacco checks on the floor of the House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-6B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3953,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3953","url_meta":{"origin":409,"position":0},"title":"Big Tobacco stooge John Boehner joins the board of RJ Reynolds","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"September 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, knock me over with a feather. 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