John Boehner’s Voting Record: A Crying Shame

[MrScorpio]

by George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
Originally posted 12/28/2010

Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is shedding so many tears in public that some are calling him the Weeper of the House. The Ohio Republican cries at every turn. There’s video of him crying on the House floor in 2007 when discussing the plight of soldiers being deployed to Iraq.

There’s another video of him crying on June 4, 2009 at the unveiling of a Ronald Reagan statue in the capitol. Last May, he cried when he accepted the pro-life Hyde Award. And, after he was re-elected to Congress in November, Boehner, the second-oldest of 12 children, started tearing up while recalling his hardscrabble upbringing in Reading, Ohio, a factory town just outside Cincinnati.

“Listen, I hold these values dear because I’ve lived them,” he said at the time. “I spent my whole life chasing… the American dream.” Then, the tears began flowing.

An appearance December 12 on CBS News’ 60 Minutes also featured waterworks. Leslie Stahl asked, “On election night, what made you sad, what – what got to you that night?”

With tears in his eyes, Boehner replied, “I was talking, trying to talk about the fact that I’ve been chasing the American Dream my whole career. There’s some – some things that are real – very difficult to talk about – family, kids, I can’t go to a school anymore. I used to go to a lot of schools. And, you see all these little kids running around. Can’t talk about it.”


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[SpiralHawk]

1. The Weeper of the House (R)

"Don't weep for me, America-tina. I can weep for myself."

- Teh Boehner (R)

[Angry Dragon]

2. The Weeping Boner ....... a republican STD

[Cleita]

3. He's just a drunk who can't think straight.

One of my customers, when I was a bartender, was like that. He claimed he was a Libertarian. He worked as a caddy at the local country club, the only job he could handle because he didn't have to show up to work if he was hung over. He barely got by, yet he repeatedly voted Republican and against his own interests because he really thought the tax and spend Democrats were out to get him. No matter how much I or other customers tried to point out the error of his thinking to him, his alcohol soaked mind couldn't comprehend. He got cancer and couldn't even work as a caddy anymore. We convinced him to get welfare so he could get Medicaid and he wouldn't have to die out on the street, homeless, without medical care. To the day he died though, he wouldn't admit that those Democratic social programs saved him from a hard death. He also voted for Prop. 13, which ruined all the social safety nets in CA and he didn't own property. Fortunately, he died before he could see the harm it caused.

I shudder to think that a person who reminds me of this caddy is going to be the third in line for the Presidency and is going to wield such power. The caddy at least had none.