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Newsmax Magazine recently sat down with Congressman Boehner to talk about jobs, the economy, and Boehner's outlook on the state of the nation after serving one year as speaker.  Below are several excerpts from Newsmax’s January 2012 cover story “Speaker for the People: John Boehner’s Struggle for America’s Future”:

>> A Regular Guy with a Big Job. “But while his predecessor Nancy Pelosi lives in a three-story Georgetown manse, Boehner maintains a basement apartment on Capitol Hill. Each morning, he sits at the counter at Pete’s Diner and engages in small talk with the ladies behind the counter, who have dubbed him ‘John-John.’  He irons his own shirts, mows his own lawn.  He flies commercial."

>> A Speaker Focused on Cutting Reckless Washington Spending, Helping Small Businesses Create Jobs.  “Conservative standard-bearer Rep. Paul Ryan, for example, gives Boehner the grass-roots stamp of approval, calling him 'a sincerely conservative person.' Ryan praises Boehner for 'executing and getting things done.'

“Kenneth Duberstein, the former White House chief of staff for Ronald Reagan, has seen  speakers come and go.  He offers Boehner high praise.  ‘I think he is absolutely right-on as speaker of the House,’ Duberstein tells Newsmax.  ‘He understands what America is thinking right now.  And I’m not talking about the left coast and the right coast.  I’m talking about the heartland of America.’”

>>  A Leader with a Vision of a Smaller, Less Costly Government.  "One of the recurring themes from Boehner of late is the importance of renewing the American dream. He is worried it may not be as available to future generations as it was for him. Voters apparently agree: 74 percent of them now say the nation is on the wrong track.  GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, says Boehner understands what Obama does not.

“’Speaker Boehner, who grew up with his dad’s business, with a bunch of brothers and sisters, he gets the free market,’ Jordan says. ‘He gets the work ethic. He gets the idea that the private sector creates jobs.

“’That is the fundamental difference: Do you believe in big federal government, or do you believe in the private sector? Do you believe in bureaucrats in Washington, or do you believe in families and communities? We believe in families and communities.’

“Or as Boehner himself puts it: ‘In America you really can grow up to be anything you want to be, and do anything that you want to do. There’s no limit on what you can achieve.’”

Read the Newsmax piece in its entirety here.

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