"John Boehner is a golf-playing, country-club Republican who's there to make deals, he's very familiar to me," said Obama

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9/5/12, "Woodward book chronicles Obama’s fiscal policy battle with congressional Republicans," Washington Post, Steve Luxenberg

"By Woodward’s account, Boehner fit a type that Obama believed he knew well from his eight years as a state legislator in Illinois. “John Boehner is like a Republican state senator,” the president tells his inner circle, according to Woodward. “He’s a golf-playing, cigarette-smoking, country-club Republican who’s there to make deals. He’s very familiar to me.”"...via Drudge


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