Ok, I have been working day and night to try to find the right persona for John Boehner and I finally have it. After outing Mr. Cantor as the Lone Ranger I am here to do the same for Mr. Boehner. His persona is Rodney Dangerfield. I’m sure anyone over fifty knows that Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian who’s most famous line was “I don’t get no respect”
Although I like to go by the name RJ my first name is Rodney so I was always painfully familiar with Mr. Dangerfield. My family and people I knew during my childhood days called me by my middle name which is Joe, so I didn’t have to face the jokes about not getting any respect. While I was in college I decided to start going by Rod or Rodney; there were just too many Joe’s around and I wanted to be more unique. I wanted to stand out at least as far as my name goes. Anyway, I am getting off the storyline here so let’s get back to Rodney Dangerfield.
To give you the reason why I chose this persona, besides the obvious quote, here is some additional info on Mr. Dangerfield.
In addition to his anxiety and depression, Rodney’s other medical conditions included constant pain from the congenital fusion of his spine, an inoperable dislocated shoulder and rotator-cuff tear and arthritis…. 
But when Rodney got high, he couldn’t believe it. For the first time in his life, he felt relaxed and peaceful, and had a sense of well-being. That night marijuana became a new friend that would be in Rodney’s life for the next 62 years.
Now on to Mr. Boehner. He just can’t seem to get any respect from the people he leads. The Democrats think he is an idiot and the Republicans just don’t like him very much. In other words he just doesn’t get any respect for the very difficult job he has. He also, like Rodney, is I’m sure in a lot of pain. Now Rodney’s pain was obviously physical where Mr. Boehner’s is like mental. How can a person work so hard at perhaps the most difficult job in politics right now and not have a lot of mental pain?
Maybe he needs to take a que from his persona and get a medical prescription for marijuana. I’m sure it would relieve much of his suffering, at least for a little while. Finally, after two more years of being the leader for that very dysfunctional group known as the House of Representatives I have no doubt that Mr. Boehner will end up looking like his persona. They do even kind of look the same even now. :)
This persona business is kind of fun. I just might make a regular topic of it. Next time I am off to giving personas to those two leaders in the Senate…..
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