New GOP Leader Keeps Crying

웃 · January 8, 2011

You must be the new town crier?

Blog Guy, like many readers I rely on you for all my political news. So have the Republicans taken over control of the House yet following their victory in November?

Yes, finally, but only after petulant attempts by Democrats to delay the process.

Really? How could the Democrats possibly do that? They lost the election.

By making incoming House Speaker John Boehner too emotional to repeat the oath of office.

During the handover, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi dimmed the lights and showed selected movie clips from “Forrest Gump,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Life is Beautiful.”

Naturally, Boehner convulsed into a sobbing heap.

Wow! But what happened when those clips were over?

Then Pelosi unleashed the big guns. Scenes from “Toy Story 3″ and “My Dog Skip.”

Holy #######! Boehner is a weeper, everybody knows that! Did he have anything to fight back with?

Yes. As luck would have it, just before Pelosi got to “Old Yeller,” Boehner noticed through his tears that he seemed to be holding a huge honking croquet mallet…

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner becomes emotional and cries as outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduces him to take over the gavel and the podium after Boehner was elected speaker on the opening day of the 112th United States Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 5, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2011/01/06/you-must-be-the-new-town-crier/