The Crying Game - John Boehner

[groovedaddy]

We’ve had to adjust to so many strange developments lately. I’m sure we’ll get used to having a speaker of the House who weeps a lot.

That would be John Boehner, the new guy.

“He is known to cry,” the outgoing speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told Deborah Solomon in The Times Magazine. “He cries sometimes when we’re having a debate on bills.”

Pelosi, of course, does not cry in public. We will stop here briefly to contemplate what would happen if she, or any female lawmaker, broke into loud, nose-running sobs while discussing Iraq troop funding or giving a TV interview.

(Pause)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/opinion/16collins.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a212

[Kennah]

1. Well, if ya saw the movie ...

... then ya know there's a boner waiting.

[JDPriestly]

2. Pat Schroeder

On September 28, 1987, when Rep. Patricia Schroeder announced she had decided not to run for president, she burst into tears and said, "I couldn’t figure out a way to run. There must be a way, but I haven't figured it out yet." Political women spent a long time defending those tears, but behind the scenes they were mortified.

Much has happened in the past 15 years, and while no woman has made it to the White House – or even into the presidential primaries – women candidates have figured out a lot. They know how to raise money, how to run a campaign and how to handle the brutal give and take of modern politics without dissolving into tears.

But there are still stereotypes, both positive and negative, about women candidates. Voters begin by thinking women are more honest and caring than men; they also wonder if women have what it takes to hold political office. Strategists planning campaigns against women often use a one-two punch. Republican consultant Linda DiVall says that the "first thing opposition campaigns try to do is to tar a woman candidate's integrity." Then they exploit the idea that the woman is incompetent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/06/opinion/lynch/main517709.shtml

Boehner acts like an alcoholic descending into blissful, lugubrious senility.

[Creative]

3. Don't drunks cry a lot? Perhaps the new speaker is an alcoholic.