Bob Ney, Disgraced Ex-GOP Rep, Hits 'Chain-Smoking, Relentless Wine Drinker' John Boehner In Book

Ex-GOP Rep Blasts 'Chain-Smoking, Relentless Wine Drinker' Boehner
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The politics have been fierce and the fingerpointing incessant. Come March 1, the across-the-board federal spending cuts called sequestration go into effect, launching a new season of economic uncertainty for a nation still trying to shake off a recession. A look at the cuts, how much they amount to and who they will affect -- in question and answer form. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

For a man who says that he has found inner peace through meditation and study under the Dalai Lama, former Congressman Bob Ney has an awful lot of anger. The once-powerful House chairman, who was forced out of office by scandal in 2006 and spent 11 months in federal prison, now has given powerful voice to that anger in a new memoir coming out this week.

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