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CNN's Mary Matalin showered likely incoming House Speaker John Boehner with praise, on CNN minutes ago: "He's awesome. I mean he is America. One of 12 kids, worked in his daddy's bar... what you see is what you get. And he will be able to run that place, like I said earlier, the likes of which we haven't seen since Tip O'Neill. He really is the real deal."