WaPo's Kinky Reggae: "No Boehner, No Cry"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Posted at 6:30 PM ET, 12/13/2010
No Boehner, No Cry
By Alexandra Petri

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/compost/2010/12/no_boehner_no_cry.html



John Boehner, do you need a tissue?

Why is everyone crying? First Glenn Beck -- now John Boehner! Weren't they raised in the era when someone would explain to you as a child that crying in front of people made you look weak, or, at best, confused those around you?

I haven't cried since I last watched the ending of "Return of the Jedi." And that was a while ago. I just find it very moving, and I worry vaguely about the loss of civilian life during in the construction of the second death star. As a child, I used to cry at the drop of a pin, but I toughened up over time.

But what is going on? What happened to all the conservative men? Everywhere I look, they're tearing up!

Speaker Boehner, did someone spill milk? Are you feeling all right? Are you saddened by the idea that tax reform is going to pass? Remember, we all must pass eventually. Are you a crocodile? Have you been hanging out with Glenn Beck? Are you sick of the jibes about your hue? Is it Bristol Palin's loss on Dancing With the Stars? Please, tell me! I have no idea how to respond to any of this.

[upi402]

1. Issues and tissues! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. You would cry, too

if republiconization happened to you.

[Loki]

3. Joy Behar said it best

She called him the "Weeper of the House". May it follow him forever.

[calimary]

4. And don't forget darrell issa - sobbing like a brokenhearted teenage girl over Ahnold.

issa put up millions of dollars to get Gray Davis recalled as California governor, on the assumption that HE would be the take-over guy. Well, he got his recall alright. Gray Davis was ousted and Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped in and snatched it out from under him. And he sobbed in front of the cameras and microphones as he reluctantly announced he wasn't going to run after all.

Hmmm... okay, we've got a lot of republi-CON men burbling and sobbing and unable to "man up," and suddenly we've got all these republi-CON women telling them to put on their big-boy pants and "man up." What sort of pathology is on display here in our "friends" on the other side of the aisle?

:evilgrin:

And the funny thing is, THEY are the ones always portraying themselves as the big ol' macho he-man party and WE'RE the soft, mushy ones. Yeah. I can see it all over boner's blithering, bloated, drippy, rheumy face.

Someone here posted the question - what if Nancy Pelosi dissolved in burbling tears and quivery chin in public like this, especially when it's on camera and can be rerun 100-thousand times all over Christendom. The bad guys would had a field day.

The republi-CON party. Where women are mean girls and men are crybabies. Go figure.

I like the last couple of paragraphs in that link in the OP:

"I would be, frankly, consoled if Boehner were watching a movie and crying, or hearing a moving story. But it's nothing like that. He's choked up by some sort of mysterious narrative transpiring inside his own head. He's not crying out of empathy, because he's connected to others. He's crying because he's wrapped up in himself.

"It's like Nora Ephron said: "Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

VERY good, and VERY astute.