Meet Congressman John Boehner

Meet Congressman John Boehner

John is the new House Speaker of Congress. “In the days before the election, this congressman from Ohio told talk radio host Sean Hannity: “We will not compromise on our principles.” And when asked what he was doing to prep for Election Day and after, he told radio host Mike Gallagher, “I’ve praying all day, every day, trying to make it through this election and make sure our team is successful.”

“He added that prayer “does work.” “You’ve got to stay at it every day and build a closer relationship with our Savior.”… Defender of Life: In a letter to House Republican members after the election, Boehner paid tribute to his parents for sending him and his siblings to Catholic schools: “I grew up in a small house on a hill in Reading, Ohio, with eleven brothers and sisters. My Dad owned a bar – Andy’s Café – that my grandfather Andy Boehner started in 1938. What little money my parents had they used to send all of us to Catholic schools. I would nights as a janitor to put myself through college.”…

Boehner spoke to the National Right to Life Committee in June. Receiving the Defender of Life from the group, Boehner said, “Respect for life has never been a political position for me. It just came naturally. It’s me. It’s what I believe. It’s what my parents instilled in me as I grew up in America. I think millions of Americans had a similar experience.”

He went on to say that “Americans love life and we love freedom. They’re both intertwined, permanently, as part of the American character. America is a nation built on freedom. And without respect for life, freedom is in jeopardy.”

“When human life takes a back seat to other priorities – personal comforts, economics – freedom is diminished. By contrast, when we affirm the dignity of life, we affirm our commitment to freedom,” Boehner said. On the health-care legislation, he pointed out that “the overwhelming opposition of the American people to taxpayer funding of abortion almost kept it from becoming law. The American people – and a bipartisan majority in the House – supported the Stupak amendment, which would have prohibited taxpayer funding of abortion through the health-care bill.” [Note Stupak betrayed that amendment.]…

Boehner said the health-care overhaul “wasn’t being driven by the will of the people; it was being driven by the will of special interests – radical special interests who believe the killing of unborn human life is “health care.”… “It’s time for Washington to stop defying the will of the American people on this critical, commonsense issue.”

George H. Kubeck, All of the above by Kathryn Jean Lopez, Special to the National Catholic Register, Nov. 21/2010 – We are blessed with a normal Speaker of the House. Cinops be gone, Thursday, December 23, 2010