Is Boehner emotionally unstable or

[maxx]

is all this blubbering really hiding a sinister personality?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmlKCtvRet8

[Gistok]

I have to say that the commentator sounds annoyingly like Sean Hannity in his sarcasm...

But that said... John Boehner's emotional scenes... just don't seem heartfelt. When I lost my mother last summer, on occasion I was emotional like that... but I had a reason....

Mr. Boehner getting that emotional over something as benign as college students just doesn't sound logical... I'm not going to question if he has a problem with alcohol as the commentator said... but his tears just didn't seem real genuine.... especially after seeing so much of his unpleasant side.

I'm sure we'll see enough of him in the future to make a more accurate judgement about his "softer side"...

[gazhekwe]

I agree. the things he gets emotional about are so much less serious than the things he feels powerful about. If he tears up, people back off the subject. I suspect that has a part in why he does it. He doesn't tear up about things he wants to accomplish, just those things he doesn't have power about like things in his past, or how other people's kids have a future, out of his forseeable influence. Or he uses the tears to imply he can't influence it, so don't blame him.

[Jimaz]

I agree. the things he gets emotional about are so much less serious than the things he feels powerful about. If he tears up, people back off the subject....

Exactly.

Related, FWIW, from today's Detroit News: Study: Tears may play hidden role

In several experiments, researchers found that men who sniffed drops of women's emotional tears became less sexually aroused than when they sniffed a neutral saline solution that had been dribbled down women's cheeks....


The researchers are currently studying men's emotional tears, so the scientific implications of, say, the weeping of the new House speaker, John A. Boehner, remain an open question. But Sobel said he believed that men's tears would also turn out to transmit chemical signals, perhaps serving to reduce aggression in other men.

• Crocodile Tears
• Melodrama

[Big Dog]

Time will give us the answers.

[oldredfordette]

I think the orange tanning spray gets in his eyes and they water uncontrollably. Because really, Boner is as mean as he is stupid.

[maxx]

Look at the dog-and-pony show he presided over today in the House. Four minutes to deal with a Constitutional problem regarding two House members who were not properly sworn in before they started voting. And after the big deal from the Republicans about giving every piece of legislation three days to be read . So it looks like as usual, the Republicans want to do things their way even when it contradicts the way they said they were going to do things. And if somebody else tries to employ the same tactics, the Republicans cry foul.

[Wingnatic]

boo hoo tear up about the ''American dream '' yada yada yada ...... Lets bitch about extensions for the unemployed , but totally ignore unfair trade which results in job losses . The American dream is people that want a job shall have a job , cry about that

[gdogslim]

agree it was over the top, a little too sensitive over emotional. Cher needs to slap him.

although it is a kind of refreshing to see a politician who cares so much he's not afraid to do so on camera, unlike the stone cold calculating unemotional teleprompter reader at the helm now.

[Whitehouse]

Time will give us the answers.

You haven't got time. eight years ago the Republicans gave the bankers and Wallstreet a blank check to fuck the system. And they royally screwed the American poeple, the same people Republicans pretend to reprisent. And then blame the Democrats of doing the crime! [["They voted too, you know?")

And everything the Democrats want to do to mend the mistakes the Republicans made, will be torpedo-d by the Republicans. This is no politics, this is war.

[gdogslim]

He teared up about little kids and their future, I guess that it is a little thing hmm.
Obama was Wall Streets biggest beneficiary during the campaign, he is paid for.
Obama gave Wall Street Banks billions to play with and they are making 2% RISK FREE, that is one reason they are not lending.
This is a false argument used by the left for class warfare politics for the uninformed.
[[and this is from a socialist web site)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/ja...dale-j08.shtml
Obama picks Wall Street insider as White House chief of staff

President Obama’s choice of William Daley for the post of White House chief of staff is a clear signal to corporate America that his administration will dedicate the next two years to accommodating the wishes of big business for reduced regulations and taxes for corporations and austerity measures for the working class.
In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression—with workers facing long-term unemployment and rising personal bankruptcies, hunger and poverty—the president has picked a multi-millionaire banking executive from JPMorgan Chase for the key White House post.
On Friday, the day after he announced his appointment of Daley, Obama tapped Gene Sperling—another figure with close ties to Wall Street—to head the White House’s National Economic Council. As NEC chair in the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s, Sperling pushed for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and other financial regulations, fueling the speculative frenzy that led to the Wall Street crash of 2008.
Daley, head of JPMorgan Chase’s global lobbying department
In the 1990s,W. Daley served as special counsel to the Clinton administration and spearheaded the drive to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement, much favored by big business.

[Gistok]

Getting back on topic... when he talks about college kids and gets all teary eyed... maybe he's think about his wallet and how extremely expensive it is to put his kids thru college!!

That would make anyone cry!!

[Big Dog]

Alcoholism...........

[gazhekwe]

I am happy for his sensible and non-teary statement today about the shooting of the Congresswoman and the other people.

“An Attack on One of Us is an Attack on All of Us”.

[maxx]

Boehner's blubbering should stop the old argument that women are too emotional to hold office.

Boehner is doing the usual and misrepresenting the CBO report on health care reform with his own report.
He "reports" "the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has determined that the law will reduce the “amount of labor used in the economy by … roughly half a percent...,” an estimate that adds up to roughly 650,000 jobs lost."

The actual CBO report reads:

"The Congressional Budget Office[[CBO) estimates that the legislation, on net, will reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by a small amount—roughly half a percent—primarily by reducing the amount of labor that workers choose to supply."

In other word the CBO is not claiming it will destroy jobs at all but rather that "the expansion of Medicaid and the availability of subsidies through the exchanges will effectively increase beneficiaries’ financial resources. Those additional resources will encourage some people to work fewer hours or to withdraw from the labor market."

[rb336]

I cannot remember a faster transition from speaker to punchline than boehner's. He even beat Nancy, since he became a punchline before taking the office

[maxx]

Today Boehner was crying over Rep. Gifford. If he was a woman, people would be saying she' s too emotional to hold public office. I think he needs a shrink.

[maxx]

When the Republicans start to dismantle the new healthcare law, will Boehner cry over the children denied medical insurance?