Nancy Pelosi: John Boehner Is 'Known To Cry,' He Cries When We're Having A Debate On Bills'

If House Minority Leader John Boehner is concerned he's developing a reputation as a crybaby, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he will soon succeed in the next legislative session, isn't doing him any favors.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Pelosi spoke about Boehner's tendency to get emotional from time to time when it comes to tackling matters of policy.

"He is known to cry," explained the California Democrat, who was recently elected to lead her party once again when Congress returns in January. "He cries sometimes when we're having a debate on bills."

Pelosi went on to draw a distinction between herself and her Republican colleague.

"If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that," she said. "But when it comes to politics -- no, I don't cry. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally."

The remarks from the House Speaker came in response to a question about Boehner shedding tears on election night earlier this month when Republicans retook control of the House. HuffPost's Nick Wing reported on the waterworks at the time:

Boehner's emotions nearly got the best of him late Tuesday night, as he addressed news that the GOP had taken majority control of the House of Representatives with a quivered lip, a quavering voice and perhaps a few tears. ... But that wasn't a newsflash for anyone who's followed John Boehner's tenure in Washington. Whether speaking on the House floor or receiving an award, it's no secret that the man who would be Speaker predisposed to showing off the waterworks.

Comments

[blumuze]

07:17 PM on 12/12/2010

Jeopardy answer: A crying Boehner

Jeopardy question: What do you get when the little head does the thinking for the big one?

[Oilygarch]

08:13 AM on 11/29/2010

One would think that San Franciscan Pelosi would be more empathetic about a man being more in touch with their feminine side; but, I think that bollitix are getting in the way here..

As much as I don't espouse Boehner's politics (what an unfortunate name, especially for a politician), I think that we're being to hard on him. We live in a unfortunate culture where ''professionals'' are not supposed to display emotions and men, especially, are not allowed to cry without ridicule.

I welcome his display of emotion. His crying never hurt anybody. He's obviously more in touch with his heart in these matters.

It's funny how people react to politicians crying. The commotions that it incites. Hillary crying, and now John Boehner. It's as if crying were taboo and unacceptable.

...and then there's no wonder why people go postal.

[NinaColbert]

09:22 PM on 11/23/2010

2012 election: Cry Baby Cry!

[ReElectNoOne]

05:23 PM on 11/23/2010

Want to really make Boenher cry? Take away his government health insurance !

[wassilij]

02:02 PM on 11/23/2010

HAHAHAHAHAHA....Tell it like it is Nancy...!!

[LeftLeanWing]

12:36 PM on 11/23/2010

How Dummies Show Off Their Boehner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWm8hUCsnRw&feature=player_profilepage

[wassilij]

02:06 PM on 11/23/2010

ROTFL!!!! ....Fanned!!

[Morgantheaxe]

12:19 PM on 11/23/2010

Rightys absolutely amaze me. Republicants shredded oversight of the mortgage industry and Wall St. They nearly allowed the greedy in both places to end the modern way of life in every industrialized nation. It got so bad that we had to create the largest one time single pupose fund ever created just to keep the world banking system from collapsing in on itself. Yet the rightards are lined up like the little boy Oliver saying ever so meekly, "More please." Their blindness and weakness just shames me. I can not believe Americans are this stupid. The Republican party shouldn't even exist now. The kinds of failures they are responsible for should have ended it's very existence. Someone please tell me what is WRONG with these people?

[utbes01]

12:50 PM on 11/23/2010

Morgan: In 2003, Mr. Barney Frank said there was no need to further regulate Fannie Mac or Freddie Mac home mortgages. His words: "....I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing...." In 2008: "These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial cirisis." On August 17th of this year he said: "They should be abolished." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H1FA20100818

Also, in October, Mr. Frank (running in re-election) in his most detailed explanation to date about his actions, said in an interview he missed the warning signs because he was wearing ideological blinders. He said he had worried that Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration were going after Fannie and Freddie for their own ideological reasons and would curtail the lenders’ mission of providing affordable housing. Translation: Those mean old Republicans who believe in paying their bills and housing with THEIR OWN money might not allow the "poor" amongst us to have a house. Give it up man - There is at least EQUAL responsibility in Congress for allowing the sham of the housing crisis to exist - which we continue to see more and more negative ramifications on a daily basis.

I can't believe Americans (some of us) were stupid enough to get ARMs, take out 2nd mortgages on their homes (some for vacations) and think there are no consequences......

[SurfinSteve]

02:28 PM on 11/23/2010

"Translation: Those mean old Republicans who believe in paying their bills..." bwah...Translation-Translation: Repugs who believe in paying their bills with more borrowed money. Why don't you pull your head out of your A$$ now?

[Morgantheaxe]

01:51 AM on 11/24/2010

What is wrong with you? You blame average Americans that investigation after investigation shows in many cases were flat out duped in closings that by any measure of any standard were criminal. People who applied for fixed rate mortgages found out AFTER closing the lender had included ARMs in the pile of documents they signed at closing. My wife has an accounting degree. When my daughter closed on her home she aggrevated the hell out of the title company by going through the documents line by line and we walked out because of what she found. It took weeks to get a satisfactory loan agreement sent to the title company for closing. Yet you want to blame your average mechanic, bus driver, home depot sales associate for not having the know how to catch these things.

1) stop getting your facts from Rush. He is an idiot and he makes you look like one too.

2) Stop trying to sell this garbage to people that actually understand the facts of what's gone on.

You BET Barney Frank failed when it came to the mortgage industry. Heres is a FACT for you. Barney Frank was not president when these things happened. George W. Bush was. The departments that oversee the mortgage industry are NOT part of the legislative branch they are part of the EXECUTIVE branch and worked for George W. Bush. They failed because of the political appointees assigned to run them and their right wing business knows best attitude.

[OldSFMJT]

12:11 PM on 11/23/2010

NanPo is the most vicious creature I've seen in years! And this latest little stunt just reinforces that notion! She makes the Wicked Witch of the West look like a goody-two-shoes! She's probably just angry because she forgot how to cry decades ago!!

[Morgantheaxe]

12:23 PM on 11/23/2010

Look, smell the reality. The republicants just blocked radification of the treaty that has done the most to date to reduce nuclear weapons. At a time when the message world wide needs to be consistant against the development of nuclear weapons to score a political point they killed this treaty. You wanna talk to me about evil? Talk to me about real evil. She may have hurt Bo ners feelings. Republicants just re started the cold war, and they did it because it makes guys like you happy. Sickening.

[utbes01]

02:08 PM on 11/23/2010

You don’t support a treaty for goodwill reasons. You don’t do it for conceptual reasons. It is binding law, and its imposition extends too far into the future for such trivialities. It cannot be overturned by a simple vote of the next Congress.

Nor should Republicans in the Senate vote to support it because, as Bob Kagan says, they will be accused of obstructionism if they don’t. That’s a terrible reason to sign a treaty. They should do it if they are convinced it is in the national interest. Because they are so powerful, treaties require exactly this sort of high-minded approach. That it won’t necessarily do any harm and who the hell knows, it might do a little good isn’t a good enough reason to sign a treaty — any treaty.

The best thing that can be said about this treaty is that it is basically unnecessary. The worst thing is that we are creating a parallelism between American strength and Russian strength that is a very, very bad precedent in terms of how we ourselves think about American power.

Above is a quote from John Podhoretz in commentary magazine.com/blogs. As a nation, you deal with other nation states from a position of strength and not weakness.

[SurfinSteve]

02:29 PM on 11/23/2010

are you gonna cry about it?

[JamesinDentonTX]

12:06 PM on 11/23/2010

Because Republicans are so in touch with their softer side.

[Morgantheaxe]

11:57 AM on 11/23/2010

Really moderator? You aren't going to allow my witty and well thought out posts simply because I refer to Boehner and the big orange B o ner? Really?

[dimplesmile7]

11:47 AM on 11/23/2010

His father owned a bar, Andy's Café, where a young Boehner mopped floors. Look like John did more that mop floors. He was drinking up the spirits too.

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=tennessean&sParam=40984176.story

[Morgantheaxe]

11:52 AM on 11/23/2010

Actually, he's not just a drinker. He smokes like a coal fire chimney. You can smell his office from the hallway in the capital building. Imagine how gross that military airplane is going to smell after spilled booze and cartons of Marlboro reds. Oh and he IS going to use the plane the secret service provides for him. Don't kid yourself.

[utbes01]

02:01 PM on 11/23/2010

Just remember Morgan - a lot of those smokers started paying $1 per pack tax (no new taxes by Mr. Obama remember?) and is ostensibly funding health care for some people.
You don't want to rescind that on the smokers do you? After all, if it were not for smokers how much would they not be spending on health care that is unpaid for. You should rejoice and regale the news that smokers are paying for health care.... Oh yes, where does Mr. Obama smoke? Is there a special hidey-hole on Air Force 1 for him? Behind a tree on the White House grounds? You aren't making much sense....as usual.

[HC32]

11:42 AM on 11/23/2010

She probably can't cry from all the Botox.

[Morgantheaxe]

11:52 AM on 11/23/2010

Ahhh Botox. Yet another subject you know nothing about and yet feel comfortable speaking about.

[JamesinDentonTX]

12:01 PM on 11/23/2010

You guys need some new material.

[VoteThemAllOut]

11:22 AM on 11/23/2010

Happy Days are here again!!!!

What does anyone want to bet that now the taxpayers wont be paying for it, ‘Ole Nancy’ will not be running-up $100k+ bar and food bills on her flights back home?

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 11/23/10 10:16 AM EST Updated: 11/23/10 11:01 AM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will give up more than just the majority in the next Congress — she’ll be stripped of her right to use military aircraft.
Since becoming speaker in 2007, Pelosi has used Air Force jets for flights back to her San Francisco district, and for other domestic travel. But once she becomes minority leader, Pelosi will be flying commercial, just like her congressional colleagues and most voters, her office told Politics Daily.
Only the speaker is afforded the right to use the military aircraft, Pelosi’s office told POLITICO.
Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said he would not be using military planes for his domestic travel. “Over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on commercial aircraft, and I am going to continue to do that,” Boehner said earlier this month.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45525.html#ixzz167fB72Ye

[wolfess]

11:45 AM on 11/23/2010

“Over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on commercial aircraft, and I am going to continue to do that,” Boehner said earlier this month.

Yeah right, when it comes to bawling boehner every other word out of his mouth is a lie -- he can SAY he'll fly commercial when he actually plans to avail himself of all the freebies his 'position' accords him.

[utbes01]

11:47 AM on 11/23/2010

I expect you can find out over the next two years wolfess......

[Morgantheaxe]

11:47 AM on 11/23/2010

No doubt his method of choice will be the Koch brothers private jet. Fortunately the grown up in the secret service will straighten tan boy out and make him respect his position as third in line to the presidency and he will be flying in the exact same jet as Nancy Pelosi was using.

[oldpol2]

12:17 PM on 11/23/2010

Gee, Boehner won't be needing military aircraft. You don't think that's because he only needs to fly to Ohio , do you? About 400 miles from Cincinatti to DC as opposed to2441 miles from DC to San Francisco.

[Morgantheaxe]

12:31 PM on 11/23/2010

Actually this entire aircraft dust up is a perfect example of the GOP lying to their own people again. They walk around spouting lies their own party tells them. The speaker of the house is third in line for the presidency. The jet that speaker Hastert used could not fly coast to coast without refueling. The secret service requested the military provide a plane for speaker Pelosi that could fly from her home to the Washington D.C. without refueling. The GOP told its supporters fancy Nancy was just wanting an all new plane to party it up in because democrats are such spoiled spenders. It was a complete lie but it made em feel good and they repeated it. Soooo now Bo ner has to promise not to use the new plane to avoid looking hypocritical. Well he will use what secret service, who handles these travel issues, tells him to. Amazing though how these rightys love to hate more than they love to be correct.

[Neil Moerman]

10:58 AM on 11/23/2010

I suspect Boehners crying is the direct result of over indulgence in the ferment of the grape.This act is going to get old fast.I'm already tired of it.

[oldpol2]

12:27 PM on 11/23/2010

Glenn Becks understudy

[frappe]

10:02 AM on 11/23/2010

Perhaps Nancy should give him a pacifier instead of a gavel in January.