You might find much of interest in TIME?s new profile of the man likely to be elected the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, including the discussion of how tears welled up on election night as Rep. John Boehner described the importance of ?economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.?
North Carolinians also might find the following passage particularly enlightening:
He lets members say their piece but not endlessly. At one meeting with his lieutenants, Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina laid into him for failing to attack Democrats over some procedural shenanigans on the Rules Committee. Boehner finally interrupted: “When your opponents are committing suicide, Ginny, get out of their way.”
