THE EARMARK

Health care reform?  Who needs it?  Certainly not House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), whose heart is beating harder than ever, thanks to dreamy “Young and the Restless” star Peter Bergman!

The hunky Bergman stars in Boehner’s new YouTube video about health care, which also features theme music from the daytime soap and de-contextualized clips of President Obama discussing policy.  Grrrowl!

A sample portion includes the President, discussing medical procedures, saying, “You know what? I’d make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.”

Now we’re with you: A gratuitous tonsillectomy is obviously grounds for impeachment — and yet that soap underscore that Boehner inserted is so damn sexy, we’re just going to have to give Obama a pass.

Oh and one other problem: The quote — like all others in the ad — is taken completely out of context, since Obama was paraphrasing a doctor’s profit logic under the current system.  In other words, the president is advocating the exact opposite of the hypothetical doctor he’s quoting.

We at The Earmark are surprised that Boehner — a highly public figure in his own right — would want to cast the first stone in this game, since the same thing could come back to bite him personally.

For example, Democrats could cite the time that Boehner posted his own golf scores online when he was supposed to be in Washington leading a pro-oil sit-in.  Now we all know that Boehner was posting his scores to demonstrate what he didn’t want to see congressmen doing during a debate of national significance.  But take that golf story out of context and you’d think that Boehner was just a smug, detached Marie Antoinette type who went on to golf at several more Ohio country clubs in neglect of his Washington duties.

But we all know Boehner would never do that.  No sir!

By the way, if the Democrats did ever want to make such an ad, we think “The Bold and the Beautiful” would make for an incredibly sexy theme.

Tags: Barack Obama, John Boehner