No, not the one that thinks Boehner is a boner. I don't even know if the guy is actually a bartender. It just struck me as a funny line. Mainly because every one-liner seems to begin with, "A weeble, a banzai tree, and a talking raccoon walk into a bar....."
But he does appear to have one thing in common with the House Speaker: getting bombed at the U.S. Capitol:
The FBI Wednesday arrested an Ohio man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he hoped to set off a series of bombs aimed at lawmakers, whom he allegedly considered enemies.
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, was arrested on charges of attempting to kill a U.S. government official, authorities said.
According to government documents, he allegedly planned to detonate pipe bombs at the national landmark and open fire on any employees and officials fleeing after the explosions.
On the one hand, Cornell is white, so that's bad. On the other hand, he's not a Klansman or a militia/survivalist/"rightwing extremist", so that's good.
But what he is is even worse:
The FBI first noticed Cornell several months ago after an informant notified the agency that Cornell was allegedly voicing support for violent “jihad” on Twitter accounts under the alias “Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah,” according to charging documents. In addition, Cornell allegedly posted statements, videos and other content expressing support for ISIS -- the brutal terrorist group also known as ISIL -- that is wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria.
"I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything,” Cornell allegedly wrote in an online message to the informant in August, according to the FBI. “I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves."
Jihad with that good ol' American can-do entrepreneurial spirit. If Home Depot ever opens a store in Mosul, ISIS can extradite "Raheel" to do local ad spots.
Cornell didn't specify which members of Congress he considered enemies, but I'm guessing that he wouldn't have been willing to discuss it with Speaker Boehner over drinks, unless he could have ordered his fellow Ohioan a Harvey "Wallbanger".
Exit question: I wonder what the folks back at the camp will have to say about their latest prodigal Saladin?
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