Discussion: Boehner Gets Choked Up While Announcing His Resignation (VIDEO)

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He needs to lay off the booze.

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Does anybody know when Pawn Sacrifice is playing?

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I bet once he sheds his awful job (“leading” the chaotic GOP House mob), he will become much less emotionally labile.

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Came in emo, Goes out emo. Next…

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Now…he was quitting, right? He wasn’t announcing a ‘Find the Popes in the Pizza’ contest?

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Golly. All this weird shit coming down today and here I am stuck with just my smart phone, a worn out stylus, a bum right shoulder and a numb index finger. It just doesn’t get much better than this!

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I’m going to miss Congressman Orange.

Had the least control over his tear ducts of ANY politician. East OR West.

“Who cried when Old Yeller got shot?”

“Okay, now who cried when Old Yeller DIDN’T get shot?”

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Either almost nothing changes, or the right wing nut jobs mess things up so bad the GOP loses both houses in 2016. Does any one really see the Tea Party taking over and governing in a way that gets anything accomplished.

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Damn…I wish the Pope had hugged Scalia…

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The Papal Soul-Meld. It’s a life changer.

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What you witnessed here is the mind of a functioning alcoholic conflicted Catholic.

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No joke! I was on a freaking plane to DC and the airplane didn’t have any earphones (forgot to load them) and I didn’t have my own. My computer was about 20 rows back and all I could see was headlines on the Direct TV screen in front of me. I wanted to be talking, reading cimmentary, hearing my hubby’s comments and NOTHING.

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They don’t call him the Blubbering Boner for nothing.

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It’s nearly impossible for the House to flip due to the gerrymandering. Even after the 2020 reapportionment, the structural advantages locked into place by Republicans victories in 2010 are unlikely to be reversed.

The best hope is to gain a liberal majority on SCOTUS, and overturn the way districts are currently draw…but given the way the Constitution is written that doesn’t seem a likelihood.

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John Boehner “once was lost, but now he’s found; was bind, but now he sees.” Good for him! Perhaps his papal encounter will impel him to make marvel with House Democrats in his remaining time.