3/18/2024 0 Comments Trey gowdy pin drop speech![]() ![]() ![]() We’re on Boehner’s home course, the Wetherington Golf and Country Club, on a Monday afternoon in early June. Today he is saying it with ruinous frequency. House speaker uses it-“Aww, Jee-sus, Boner!”-it’s almost always to rebuke himself for a bad one. When spoken by his close friends-“Thatta boy, Boner!”-it’s almost always to congratulate him on a good shot. To play golf with John Boehner is to learn there are unwritten rules governing the use of the word Boner. As the Titleist Pro V1 finds its resting place, several feet shy and slightly west of its final destination, he can’t mask his frustration. The veins are still dancing in his muscular, leathery legs as the blade retreats from the ball, and it’s apparent within moments of their reunion that something isn’t right. With a posture as unique as his personality-back hunched over nearly parallel to the turf, left shoulder dipped well below the right, fingers interlocked around a grip of blue rubber-he gazes downward and shuffles his feet. We’re on the green now, surveying his 10-foot par attempt, a modest breeze transporting his tobacco cologne. Maybe it’s a metaphor for a conservative politician who often turned to liberals in crunch time, but I’m too busy losing $20 on this hole to appreciate it. WEST CHESTER, Ohio-He swings the golf club like a right-hander, which he is, but putts as a southpaw. Tim Alberta is national political reporter at Politico Magazine. ![]()
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