hello. please buy my weeper of the house facial
tissues. they are lubricated for the Bohner in your
life.

Ohio must be some kind of ying-yang place.  They elect Kucinich and this POS.

Well said Garth….

Tp paraphrase my mother, “We should give him something to really cry about.”

Tighten your belts, and keep your anti-nausea medicine close—this is what we face for at least 2 years.  I think it’s less of a man-woman double standard and more of GOP/Dem double standard.  A Dem is only allowed to weep in public if they lose a spouse or a child—maybe a parent, but that’s iffy.  Meanwhile the Boner can weep at the thought of anything, especially his relief that taxes are going up for him and is fellow wealthiest Americans.

Dowd, the NY Times Oped writer, had the best explanation: deep down he knows he is a hypocrite and cries when somewhat reminded of his Scooge-like role, such as seeing kids at school his votes directly harm.

markpkessinger, December 16 at 4:41 am Link to this comment

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”

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Thank you.  It reminded me of the part of 60 Mitutes story that said Boehner’s wife stays in Ohio.  She does not go with him to Washington when Congress is in session.

She seems like a shrewd woman.  Boehner is most likely a ‘street angel’ and a ‘house devil.’  I’ll bet he’s impossible to live with espcially when he comes home shitfaced or when he’s trying white-knucle sobriety.

No one likes a cry-baby drunk not even other cry-baby drunks.  It detracts from their own center-stage close-up.

Why do voters of his district in Ohio put up with him?

There is a world of difference between authentic, appropriate emotional expression and cheap, inappropriate emotionalism. It was the latter that was on display in Boehner’s 60 Minutes interview. Author James Baldwin, in his essay titled, “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (from “Notes of a Native Son”) said it best:

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”

Narcissists are weepers.  Feeling sorry for one’s self
is sure to bring on the tears and narcissists are all
about themselves.  Unfortunately, for the rest of us in
the case of Mr. Boehner, narcissists are devoid of
empathy.  They view people, places and things in terms
of how that person, place of thing benefits or
diminishes them.

Mr. Cheney is another weeper - in case any further
proof of the relationship between narcissism and the
absence of empathy is needed.

who’syourdebs,

I appreciate your picture of Eugene Debs campaigning.  As Ralph Nader said, “Vote your conscience.”

It might seem futile in the near term, but if enough voters vote their consciences, in the long term someone will notice, and the schmock-schmock (a Steve Allen nonsense neologism) on talk nooz TV about the US being a right-center nation will have to be re-edited.

I saw a Jokester today on C-SPAN, a Republican named Coffman who was re-elected to Congress from Colorado.  His second term.

Talk about ‘dreamy faces’ with half-shut eyes, of the New Right, he was on who just don’t know the talking points and didn’t know what in the world he was talking about.  He advertised he was an ex-Marine. 

He was one of those ‘Smokers,’ the ones who kick down doors in the middle of the night in Iraq and smoke women and children.  Semper Fi.

He’s already eligible for a full pension.

Colorado needs less marijuana and more oxygen.

Crocodile tears.  The teeth are what you gotta watch out for.

Either it’s politically staged or the man has emotional problems. It is sobering indeed that the soon-to-be Speaker of the House will be just two sets of heartbeats away from the Presidency. Besides, how can you trust a man that looks like a used-car salesman and gets his tan out of a bottle?

This guy is already a repulsive stone-hearted Rep with leathery tanned skin. Now the crocodile tears makes him unbearably weird. He cares about kids but not the Department of Education. He cares about the American Dream but won’t compromise on tax cuts for the rich. He holds the unemployed hostage to them.
Yah cry me a river. You have to do something to make people believe you’re human.

I’ll tell you what Boehner is all about.

In the 50s and 60s, I’d go with my father to visit my grandfather.  Most of the times, a few of my uncles would be there.  And they were always drinking. 

Retired and happy to spend their leisure time sucking down the suds with Grampy, they’d begin to reminisce.  Before too long, the grudges surfaced and the tears began to roll.  For the longest time, I thought I was Irish.

I always noticed their complexions.  I thought it was a ruddy, outdoorsman look.  Then, a few of my aquaintances who stayed in the dark and did drugs and drank beer as an afterthought, started to turn Boehner Orange, too.  It was their livers screaming stop! or at least slow down.

I appoint Boehner, The Irishman of the Year.

Orange and Weepy. 

Just sit back and watch, and if you ever get the chance, offer him a manhattan.  For old times sake.  Bring up the hard days of yesteryear.  You might be in for quite a show.

He is noting but a drunken lush crying in his beer. His fellow congressional in crime club buddies say he is in the bar by 5 pm every night, no later than 6pm drinking. He has an alcohol problem, shows signs of mental instability, bursts of rage, depraved indifference toward those less fortunate like those who jobs are gone thanks to the rich out sourcing American jobs to other countries and as for crying when thinking about the students-children-today achieving the American dream all the while he is cutting spending on education is a load of crap, or as John puts it, chicken shit.

As for his claim to working every crappy job there was, I find that hard to believe. Hey, John, try working in home care or nursing care one-on-one with the sick, elderly and disabled and take care of their every personal need, that can be a really crappy job and a dirty one. And if you have any empathy at all, not just crocodile tears,you would really know what real crying is and not that fake act you display for the network cameras.

Perhaps you should try taking care of some of our returning soldiers you and your fellow repukes sold a batch of lies to about our safety all on the name of profits for the MIC, which you make certain every fighter plane sold to them, they have to buy another engine for every engine those planes have because they make the engines in your district of Ohio. And don’t forget the big oil which Bush let it slip he was in Iraq for. Yeah you got a lot to cry about, only you are crying for the wrong reasons about the wrong situations.

You are not competent enough or mentally stable to hold this job. You don’t need the money and this country certainly does not need the type of so called leadership you offer, as it is slanted for the less than 2% of the richest of the rich. No go home and have yourself a real cry, you sorry sack of crap.

I will even send you a box of kleenex from the dollar store.

Sorry. I can get weepy too. Certainly I often cry at movies. And I’m a six foot six straight guy. But I’m not a fucking criminal. This creep being weepy just makes makes me think Baba is right. He’s got an emotional problem.

It’s guilt and this shit has a lot to be guilty about.