Boehner: Gov’t is ‘disrespecting you’

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday resurrected his notorious saying, “Hell, no, you don’t!” in arguing for a GOP majority in the lower chamber.
 
The top-ranking Republican gave a 20-minute speech at a small manufacturing business in Ohio in which he attacked the administration and Democratic-led Congress for a poor record on job creation, the economy and spending.
 
{mosads}The biggest applause line came when Boehner noted the GOP plan to “repeal and replace” what critics call “ObamaCare,” the president’s signature healthcare plan, signed into law earlier this year. 

Boehner told audience members that their government “hasn’t been listening,” “is disrespecting you” and “is out of control.”
 
 “Do you have to accept it?” he shouted.
 
“No!” cried the audience, where members waved signs reading “Give ’em Hell, John” and “John 4 Jobs.”
 
“Do you have to take it?” the would-be Speaker asked.
 
“No!” they responded.
 
“Hell, no, you don’t! That’s what elections are for!” he shouted — a throwback to his floor speech in March moments before the vote on the healthcare bill.

Boehner’s address was the fourth in a series of major policy speeches he has delivered since campaign season began in earnest in mid-August.
 
The speech to workers at the United Group Services company was billed by GOP leadership aides as a “closing argument” to implore voters to wipe away the Democratic majority.
 
Boehner, a former small-business owner who grew up working in his father’s tavern, said small businesses are under siege under Democratic-controlled government.
 
“Family-owned operations like my dad’s tavern, and small businesses like mine and United Group Services, are what power the American economy. They employ a quarter of the workers in our country and created the majority of new jobs over the last decade. Small businesses like these are essential to the American Dream. And right now that dream is under siege,” Boehner said. He explained that he grew up with a mop in his hand, taking any odd job, or “rotten job,” in order to provide for his family.
 
Doug Thornell, spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and assistant to the Speaker, accused Boehner of “caddying for powerful corporate special interests and working against middle-class families.”

“He rushed to support President Bush’s Wall Street bailout, but when President Obama asked for his support for middle-class tax cuts, help for small businesses and aid for those most in need, he turned his back,” he said. “The last thing we can afford is Boehner’s partisan leadership, which would resurrect the same agenda that crippled the American economy, left millions of people out of work and sent American jobs overseas.”