Boehner’s priorities

John Boehner, the Orange Man, the Speaker in waiting, has been very vocal about his top priorities. Let’s list them:

(1) Extending tax cuts for those earning more than $250,000 a year. This would benefit, well… the rich.

(2) Repealing the Affordable Care Act, because it will “ruin the best health care system in the world and bankrupt our country”. Well, the US healthcare system might indeed be the best in the world…if you are rich. But for everybody else, it ranks way down the list, and for millions, it hangs them out to dry. But God forbid that anybody would be forced to help subsidize the healthcare of others to achieve near universal coverage.

(3) Lightening the burden on Wall Street. Orange Man does not hide the fact that we wants to weaken the rule-making that underpins the Dodd-Frank Act: “it’s going to require a significant amount of oversight — so that ..the American people will understand, just what this bill will do to our financial services industry.” And expect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be under attack. Again, the rich will benefit.

See any common themes here?