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Deirdre Shesgreen reports

House Speaker John Boehner let loose in a recent interview with conservative columnist Peggy Noonan. The Wall Street Journal piece is a must-read for anyone wondering about the trials and tribulations of the West Chester Republican’s leadership reign—and for anyone who just likes a good quote.

Like Boehner’s response to Noonan’s question about what he recently told his restive GOP caucus in a closed-door strategy meeting: “I told them they have ocular rectitis. That’s when your eyes get confused with your butt, and it develops into [an unnecessarily fecal] outlook on life.”

Or this one, on the make-up of the U.S. House of Representatives: “We got 435 members. It’s just a slice of America, it really is. We got some of the smartest people in the country who serve here, and some of the dumbest. We got some of the best people you’d ever meet, and some of the raunchiest. We’ve got ‘em all.”

Boehner also talked about the many roles he has as speaker: “People think I’ve got this job as a leader. They don’t realize that I have about 200 responsibilities and roles. I’ve gotta be the big brother, the father, I gotta be the disciplinarian, the dean of students, the principal, the spouse—you can’t believe all the roles that I have to play! But one of them is, you know, some problems you can nip early. I had three guys in here a few years ago, I said ‘Boys, you’re cruising down the wrong path.’ Two of them listened, one of them didn’t. He’s no longer here.”

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The Butler County Teenage Republicans (TARS) will hold its monthly meeting at its Republican Headquarters, which is located at 3431 Princeton Road (Bridgewater Falls) in Fairfield Township, at 3 p.m. Sunday.

The meeting will include a caucus with discussion of the current Republican primary candidates.

After speeches by TARS representatives for the candidates a straw poll will be taken.

The advisors for TARS are Matt Ferguson and Nick Domsitz from Friends of John Boehner. All teens in Butler County are invited to attend.

According to a release, TARS is a national, youth-led organization challenging teens to become involved in their local, state and national political processes. TARS across the nation sway elections, gain first-hand knowledge of the political process, develop leadership skills and perform community service acts in their communities.

For more information, visit www.republicanteens.org or call 513-893-5292.

(Photo: TARS member making calls at the phone bank at Republican Headquarters.)

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Deirdre Shesgreen reports for The Cincinnati Enquirer

House Speaker John Boehner raised more than $46 million in 2011 – a pace he is set to keep, or exceed, as the 2012 election season ratchets into high gear, according to the West Chester Republican’s political spokesman.

Boehner has several fundraising accounts, which he’s used to raise gobs of campaign cash from lobbyists, political action committees and supporters around the country. The GOP congressman’s 2011 haul is nearly two times what he raised in the entire 2009-2010 election cycle, said Cory Fritz, Boehner’s chief political spokesman.

Those earlier totals were before he became House Speaker, making him the most powerful congressional Republican and a magnet for political donations. Boehner has used his perch at the helm of the House to amass a mountain of campaign money that can be used to protect his GOP majority.

“We’ve never had any speaker in the Republican Party who has been as integrated into the fundraising needs as John Boehner,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, adding that Boehner travels nearly every weekend to do campaign events.

After a year marked by heated internal GOP disputes and high-stakes legislative brinksmanship, Boehner and other House Republicans are turning more attention to holding on to their 25-seat margin – an effort that’s been overshadowed by the GOP presidential primary and a bitter battle over control of the Senate.

Political experts say House Republicans face an uncertain landscape, with the deep public antipathy toward Congress and questions about the GOP’s ability to run the House. David Wasserman, who tracks House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said that in the current climate, Democrats could pick up a handful of seats, but not enough to grab back the Speaker’s gavel. (more…)

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The Butler County Teenage Republicans (TARS) will hold its monthly meeting at its Republican Headquarters, which is located at 3431 Princeton Road (Bridgewater Falls) in Fairfield Township, at 3 p.m. Nov. 13.

At this month’s meeting, the Lyons Family will talk about campaigning the how and where of getting elected to public office.

Judge Rob Lyons, Bea Lyons, State Central Committee Women for the Butler County Republican Party and their daughter Chris Xeil Lyons, who is a current candidate for West Chester Fiscal Officer.

The advisors for TARS are Matt Ferguson and Nick Domsitz from Friends of John Boehner. All teens in Butler County are invited to attend.

According to a release, TARS is a national, youth-led organization challenging teens to become involved in their local, state and national political processes. TARS across the nation sway elections, gain first-hand knowledge of the political process, develop leadership skills and perform community service acts in their communities.

For more information, visit www.republicanteens.org or call 513-893-5292.

(Photo: TARS member making calls at the phone bank at Republican Headquarters.)

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Tags: Tags: Bea Lyons, Butler County Teenage Republicans, Chris Xeil Lyons, Friends of John Boehner, Judge Rob Lyons, Matt Ferguson, Nick Domsitz, TARS