Another Boehner Boner

There's something about House Speaker John Boehner that rings fake- well, really, almost everything about him- his permatan; his unctuous speaking style (with its attendant willingness to cry as if on cue), and his tendency to political stunts that probably play well to his hometown Rotarians but not so well with most voters living in the real world. 

So now here's a Boehner Fakery Update, via TPM:

Late last week Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a big show of trying but failing to sign up for Obamacare because of the notoriously buggy website. (Actually he appears to have been using the DC exchange site.) He even did a special tweet noting his hopeless situation. Not terribly surprising given the frustrating experiences so many have had. 

Actually, it turns out he had successfully enrolled and got a call confirming that about an hour after his tweet. But it gets better. 

According to Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Washington, reports that a DC Health Care exchange representative actually tried to contact Boehner by phone during the enrollment process but was put on hold for 35 minutes, after which time the representative finally hung up.