What Made Boehner Cry at Catholic University?

As a high school football player, John Boehner suffered tramatic brain and spinal chord injuries, bad enough to force the US Navy to release him from Vietnam War service on a medical discharge after only 8-days in uniform. John understands that each day is a blessing and one more chance to do the right thing, given the fragility of human life, even if that now includes a permanent disability to control his tears. Let’s stop making fun of John Boehner – and understand the true importance of surviving traumatic brain injury. After all, Congressman Boehner is 3rd in line to command the United States of America to the President. The NFL Players Association better sign John Boehner up as their traumatic brain injury spokesperson when all is said and done in Washington, DC.

I believe the “others” Boehner refers to whom he serves are the wealthy and influential campaign donors who make sure he is elected over and over again.

This is really no surprise. The GOP always caters to the wealthy. As a Catholic I know that boehner does not understand what being a real Catholic is all about.

Boehner Cried?
AGAIN
When will this two-bit twerp grow-up?

He cries like a slobbery drunk. Someone tell him to sober up and go home.

What doesn’t make Boehner cry? Thats what happens when you’re a drunk.

Boehner can implement a no federal tax strategy and then complain that the deficiet is growing. Fire all public union employees and say that unemployment is increasing. Great Christian agenda. After voting Republician for the past 46 years I have a new way of voting that includes helping the poor. Yes, I hope to see the Bush tax cuts removed.

Boehner can implement a no federal tax strategy and then complain that the deficiet is growing. We now have the lowest federal tax rates since 1958. Fire all public union employees and say that unemployment is increasing. Great Christian agenda. After voting Republician for the past 46 years I have a new way of voting that includes helping the poor. I hope to see the Bush tax cuts are removed. Yes, I am a different kind of Catholic Christian.

LOL!…more confirmation that Pelosi had more “bowls” than this guy. hehehehehe!

QUACKERS WEB, MAY 14, 1:32:09 PM, SAID:
“After all, Congressman Boehner is 3rd in line to command the United States of America to the President.”
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LOL! @ “command the United States”…this guy? That’s what scares me.

The Speaker is leading the fight to save America. The Obama drive to create a giant welfare state has got to be stopped. The Speaker is doing what he can. As a life-long Democrat, I fear for this country where so many people that everyone deserves a free lunch.

BS! He’s no man of God when he denies all Americans universal healthcare, extremely favors the richest people, loves war and $700+ billion in military spending, wants to get rid of social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, wants higher taxes on the poor and less for the rich, etc. etc. He, like most republicans, is a very greedy, selfish person!!!

Please pardon any formatting errors, sent from my iPhone.

Please, let’s not be mean in response to meanness. I agree in thinking his motivations are self-serving in many of the wrong ways, but we are all capable of that. We can disagree without being nasty.

What a joker!!!

Boehner is trying to match Regan’s acting abilities. The cry scene is said to be the most difficult. Fool clown if you ask me.

It’s all in his name.

Were he president, he would likely have been crying when he told us of Osama’s death.

Tom Thursday you certainly aren’t a “life long Democrat” with those ideas. Leading the “fight to save the nation”…from what? While protects the wealthies 2-5% of the nation? “creating a giant welfare State”…? has it ever dawned on you that if many of these people had jobs then many of these people wouldn’t NEED welfare? I thought what the “Weeper” promised last fall? LOL…LOL

In case anyone was wondering, the Bible says that all the believers who died before and after Christ, (that includes His Blessed Mother), are spiritually asleep and are not awake at the moment. So therefore they cannot, nor do they have any power to hear anyone nor help anyone alive right now. Only God’s Holy Spirit (active force) is helping people out and only God should get the credit. (1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 5). Just my two cents.

I find it ironic that he wants to serve others. This ‘others’ so far inluded only the wealthy and those who can afford lobbists. I have yet to see him serving the truly needy and downtroden. When he does that, then I would think he is a true Christian.

Tan man better look again at the things that make him cry..and playing the Christian role just doesn’t fit his style! He has no heart for the poor and the middle class,like so many stated in these comments!! He wants the same as the Bush administration did..make the rich richer, and the poor can all dye off as far as this man cares. I am sure he doesn’t read any comments because he would really be crying up a storm thinking that people can really see thru him..

Paula…you believe anything “religiously you want” but it has abolutely NOTHING to do with the “Weeper” and his troubled conscience. So I don’t have a clue what good or relevant that Bible quote is. Besides I think his emotionalism has more to do with the stress and pressure the tea partiers and far right extremists have placed on him.

Ok..I commented the first time before watching the video, having just read the story.. Now that I have watched the video…DRUNK..or hung over. Knew someone one like him before and acted the same way. He is such a phony and this crap about praying to the VM..okay so he is Chatholic and I can see how he may be confused, (I was raised Chatholic), however seeing the phone call from an old coach was not a direct link from her or anyone else. He is dilusional and needs to go..he is doing nothing to create jobs or help the people of this country that are paying the bulk of the taxes to make this country run..

I see the weeper of the house is at it again :) I am sorry but I don’t believe those tears are real. He only serves the rich, not the people he really needs to serve and that is why he is a fake.

Oh no…Boehner didn’t get any gravy for his mash potatos and he’s crying a river. Somebody, anybody, please give this man some gravy. What is there that this pathetic man doesn’t cry about. Some people sing in the shower, this guy cries in the shower, in the morning, for lunch, at night, in his sleep, etc. I mean, this guy cries more than a distraught widow at a funeral. The crazy thing about this is that this guy is 3rd in line to being President. Can you imagine him crying addressing the U.N., at a summit, or in his state of the union message. I mean, is this the biggest whimp this country has seen or what?

@barbara cornell,
May the Lord take away ALL of his blessings off your life so that you are not “sponging” off of him, hypocrite!!!
And BTW, moron, the growth of the poor is a direct result of the growing disparity between the rich and the middle-class. And you can blame Reagan and Bush 43 for that with their trickle-down economics of less taxes for the wealthy and a limitless national debt!!! Most people just want a good-paying career, but the rich want it all for themselves!

Barbara Cornell has one niece sponging and seems to associate it with all liberals.

It is hardly comforting to know that the 2nd in line to the POTUS is an emotionally unstable cry baby. How he got that way is wholly irrelevant. It’s just too dang bad that the GOP replacement for Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have been a stonger choice.

Yes, I hope to see the Bush tax cuts removed.
Well Thomas perhaps they will. But keep in mind if the Government took everyones earnings then it would not be enough. And the post that said our tax rates are the lowest since 58. Lets say they are but I don’t think 45% of us are living in poverty yet 45% pay no taxes at all.
Harp on the rich all you want, it was after all the rich power brokers on wall street who gave money in droves to elect Obama and they are the ones who played a big role in what happened to our economy.
I suspect that Boehner got the message that the money the congress cares for is not their money to do willy nilly with it. Being a good steward of the peoples money and leaving the people with as much in their pockets as possible should be the goal of every politician. Tending to the poor should be just as much our responsibility as it is the Governments.

This guy is Third in line for the Presidency, and he has the mental stability of a second grade girl playing hop-scotch.

If Boehner and the rest of the politicians would cut their salaries say 50% and then state that they were doing so because they truly loved this country and wanted to participate in the belt tightening to help balance the budget, then all those tears would be believable.To make a long story short. I truly don’t believe anything these liars say.

Man up dude. Quit cryin.

Coach Faust must have been a billionaire as that’s the only one’s Boehner cries about.

Can you believe this teary man is the face of the GOP? How the mighty have fallen.

What happened to America? Why are we so full of hate and vitriol? What happened to civility and decency?
“What comes out of the mouth is what is in the heart.”
“Let the one who has no sin cast the first stone!”
Lest we forget that we are all children of God, and full of dignity restored by Christ. Peace to all.

How was that big flass ofKool Aid you all drank this morning? Where were you all when Pelosi, a proclaimed Catholic sat on the bench and did nothing but think of ways to fracture life and split apart the American Family! The prof who wrote that letter from CU are a disgrace!

Nothing like a good cry, or so they say. What’s interesting about the Speaker is that I never see those tears for the least among us that are largely anonymous. For my part, even though I have conservative personal values that govern my lifestyle and financial choices, I well understand the difference between arriving at human life via a white vagina portal and a non-white one, at least in this country. Hard work is commendable, as John says, but hardened hearts are not so good for your health or the nation’s. The richer among us can part with a little more of their wealth without missing it to enable the least among us to be able to afford to buy fresh produce and gas and to put a roof over their head. Turn off the faucet, John, or go into the ghettos of America with your faith and look deeply into the eyes of the poor, non-white children there and maybe you’ll have a transforming moment when the floodgates really open wide like they did for Paul of Tarsis… it’ll do you and the nation good too, when that happens. You’re a good man, who cares, but you’re growing up lessons as a white male in poverty can never be the same ones that non-white males in poverty grew up with because you did not experience racism. You needn’t atone for that, but you do need to understand it from the perspective of those non-whites who lived it when you were growing up and whose children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are living it now.

“Helping the poor” is code for taking other people’s money and their ability to provide for their own and give it to someone else that a third party deems more deserving. It is disgraceful that most who vote to “help the poor” don’t have enough to give of their own, so they “help” by voting to take from others. This would be known as theft if it were not done by the government.
What hurts the poor the most is overspending and monetizing the debt to create inflation. This is the most regressive form of taxation of all, hurting the poorest among us.

To the person who thinks “Republicans” are callous toward the poor: Study the data on who makes what in this country and who gives more of what they make. I’m certain that you will be enlightened (if facts matter to you). As far as the “poor”: Look critically at what FDR’s policies and JBJ’s policies have done for our poor. It’s institutionalized slavery. Gov’t cannot be all things to all people at all times. You eventually run out of other people’s money. Teach a man to fish…God had it right (as usual)!

I do not care if he cries –some men do. It does not mean he is right about what he believes, nor does it make him wrong. What makes him wrong is to be a complete puppet of the weathy pushing their adgenda, and claiming to be Christian. Christians do not deny their fellow man food, or healthcare, education or shelter. He cries and votes for legislation that hurts children — if it is a battle of tears, poor sick and hungry wins every time.

Mercy I hear nothing but judgement off the right regarding those less well off. Every one of you tries to say it is always some personal choice or they are lazy. Which is not remotely true. You can champion for the unborn all you like, but if you continue to turn your backs on those that are born it’s telling. Caring about your fellow man doesn’t stop once they are born.

“All of you posters” who feel we are not being “civil” in our criticism of this man need to 1) research the topics and issues more 2) leave your “religion” at the Church door when you leave and keep it OUT of poltics and 3) look at yourselves in the mirror and determine if you yourself are being hypocrital when it comes to your “solutions” concerning the plight of the deteriorating middle class – many of them who have are now entering the category of poor.

How dare the Catholic church criticize Boehner’s attempts to get our economy back on track and HONOR men who support the killing of babies.

Our Weeper of the House is as big a liar as any of the rest of them. They all show up at church but don’t stand too close to them because of lightning danger.

I am so tired of the misinformation on John Boehner’s tears. John Boehner is an ALCOHOLIC and this is WHAT they do.

Someone tell the lamestream media that Boehner isn’t running for president. The “crying” stories were old months ago. Now they’re simple pathetic. Let’s worry about the economic health of the country. Ooops, we wouldn’t want to focus on the failed economic policies of the Obama administration, would we?

“S”…LOL…LOL They (the stories) don’t get old as long as he “keeps doing it”. LOL…Most rational and logical people are going to “wonder” why? And don’t you think that the “right” out to come up with a different soundbite than “lamestream media”. Now that…is really “getting old”. LOL…LOL

Go for it House Speaker Rep. John Boehner, show those who poke fun at you what true humility is all about. Show those who “think” they are enlightened thinkers and so full of wisdom, show them what a “genuine” American politician does to make our country TRULY free and great. And last, but not least, show them the faith in God that gives life to your works.

Who are these “prominent Catholic thinkers” that this blog refers to as opposing Boehner’s presence at CU? Would these be the same “Catholic thinkers” that defended Obama’s presence at Notre Dame a few years back?

There’s more billionaire/millionaires in the democrate party than republican. Please stop trying to play the class warfare nonsense….it’s completely innane.

The Democrats have no right to criticize Boehner and other Republicans, until they do the right thing and end abortion. I guess the Democrats forgot “Thou Shall Not Kill”

Leave the guy alone. All pelosi wanted was a big plane, better pay raises for themselves and the power to take money out of our pensions, and not give us Seniors a 2% raise. I’m a senior citizen and Obummer took my raise away and Boehner is trying to get it back for us.

i am amazed at these comments. I think Senators Kerry, Boxer, Feinstein, and many other Democrats are extremely wealthy. O’ look at Speaker Pelosi who is a silent owner in resturants and doesn’t employ “union” people. The unions take money from us poor working stiff and push for wealthy Democrats. How about Kennedy?? Reality is wealth is in both parties. The Democrats play like they are “poor”.
People need to work instead of receiving hand outs off our backs. There are generations receiving welfare and are having babies to maintain welfare status. SOOOOOO please wake up, we are going Broke and can not support the pensions of those in government and labor!

I kind of agree with you Zoe Zimmerman: He does not shed a tear when he attempts to take away medicare and medicade from the elderly and needy. Where is his compassion here? And when he says teachers, cops and firemen must give up more and yet finds money to give to corporations…no tears here either. If we are bankrupt and have no money …that means we have no money for teachers, firemen and corporations…no money means no money for anyone. Let’s see you cry over this.

He says he is a Christian, I believe him. He cries because he is feeling convicted (GUILTY) for all of the sins he and the rest of the republican party are tryin to provoke against the American people. He can’t handle his own sin and he knows he is a hypocrite he wants to be better but it is very difficult for him.

“Grammix”…LOl…You may be right about the “guilt and sin” part….because that is the “VERY” reason why i will not “vote”for anyone who “wears their Christianity” on their sleeve. It tells me that because of their SUBJECTIVE “beliefs”…that they will not be “rational, analytical, logical and most of REALISTIC”. lol…lol

I have nothing good to say about Boehner. He has been a tool for the greed of the rich. He crys only about himself but like all republicans he would attack, attack and keep attacking anyone in the Obama administration who cried about something important. After years of republicans giving to the rich, even most Catholics are fed up with the republicans plans that will all be harming the least among us. Many priests, nuns and others sent a letter to Boehner about how unacceptable republicans plans are for the needy.

he is not fit to be a leader. The GOP mocked that democratic V.P candidate who broke down over the press revealing his wife had mental illness. So why is it OK for this guy to break down all the time? I don’t want him as commander in chief.agree GOP has abandoned middle class, their old consistency for the super rich.unforgivably Dem constituency is minority’s gays, illegal immigrants communist and socialist. All the middle class is to them is someone to pay for all the welfare they want to give to the non taxpayer, for their vote.

Dude is soooooo emo!
A (corporate tax) cutter for sure.

Oh Ms. Magdalene. Each and every poster on here who takes the time to further expose these shameless hypocrites is contributing to bettering the situation of the poor.