{"id":1086,"date":"2013-01-02T23:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T04:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:05:36","slug":"boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Tells America to &#8220;F*** Itself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1087\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself\/boehnerpointing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehnerPointing-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Boehner pointing\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehnerPointing-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehnerPointing.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House John Boehner points at Harry Reid and tells him &#8220;Go Fuck Yourself!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Washington, D.C.) It has been reported that in the middle of negotiations to avoid the &#8220;fiscial cliff,&#8221; Speaker of the House John Boehner pointed at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and exclaimed &#8220;Go Fuck Yourself!&#8221; after Harry Reid had characterized Boehner&#8217;s House leadership as being a &#8220;dictatorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fishington Cheesington Post only wishes this were only a joke, and not a clear indication of all the classiness that  Republicans possess.<\/p>\n<p>It also wishes that Reid and the Democrats were able to send a clearer message to Republican leadership.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1088\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself\/harry-reid_bird\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/harry-reid_bird-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Reid flips the bird?\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/harry-reid_bird-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/harry-reid_bird.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think this is accidental, but might have been the best response given the sincerity of the Republicans.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Later, Boehner apologized to Reid, chuckled and explained he meant no disrespect to the Senator, and that his remark was a reflection of the official Republican viewpoint that the average American should go fuck themselves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1089\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself\/boehner-laughing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1089\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehner-laughing-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boehner Laughing\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehner-laughing-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/boehner-laughing.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Bush did it to the country all those years&#8230;why shouldn&#8217;t Americans do it to themselves?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, D.C.) It has been reported that in the middle of negotiations to avoid the &#8220;fiscial cliff,&#8221; Speaker of the House John Boehner pointed at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and exclaimed &#8220;Go Fuck Yourself!&#8221; after Harry Reid had characterized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/02\/boehner-tells-america-to-f-itself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[152,635,637],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-funny-stuff","tag-boehner","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}