John Boehner, the soon-to-be-former speaker of the House of Representatives, has become an object of contempt among hardcore conservatives in recent years. Indeed, upon the news Friday that Boehner will resign from Congress in October, many conservatives literally cheered.
But it wasn't all that long ago that Boehner was a fiery leader of the conservative movement, perhaps best typified in this rousing and rather profane speech on the House floor during the final debate on ObamaCare in March 2010. Watch below (it starts get really good around the 40-second mark). Ben Frumin
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