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I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang of Seven,” new Republican members who had enough of the rot that then permeated the institution. 

I worked for Bob Michel back then, and Michel was the establishment. Boehner was trying to shake up the establishment. Now, Boehner is the establishment, and a bunch of new Tea Party members are trying to do the same things to Boehner that he tried to do to Michel. 

Boehner was a rabble-rouser, but he was also a team player, and when Bill Clinton became president in 1993, Boehner joined the Theme Team, a Michel creation that used one-minute speeches to counter the Clinton message machine. 

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