Former Speaker of the House John Boehner cried during a speech at the unveiling of soon-to-be-former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s portrait.
Yes. Boehner cried. Shocking, right?
Man, did Boehner lay it on thick for Pelosi:
BOEHNER: “You’ve been incredibly effective as the leader of your caucus. You know, the younger generation today has a saying, ‘Game recognizes game.’ And the fact of the matter is no other Speaker of the House in a modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results. Let me just say, you’re one tough cookie.(Applause)You know, I can tell — I could tell a few stories here. My old friend, the late great John Dingell certainly could, and if you read my book, you know the rest of that story. But there’s another side of you, Madam Speaker, as well. As leader of the other party opposite you during many of your years in leadership, I occasionally got to see and experience something few others get to see, and that was your grace when the cameras were off and when the moment called for us to rise above politics and stand together as colleagues to do what was it the interest of the House and, frankly, what was in the interest of the country.”
Boehner mentioned his daughters admire Pelosi:
“You’ve been unfailingly gracious to me, to my family and, frankly, my team here in Washington,” he said. “And Madam Speaker, I have to say, my girls told me, ‘Tell the Speaker how much we admire her.’”“If you couldn’t tell, my girls are Democrats,” he joked.Boehner later added, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results. Let me just say: you are one tough cookie.”He continued, “You and I have disagreed politically on many things over the years, but we were never disagreeable to each other. As you might have heard me say before, you can disagree without being disagreeable.”
Thank you, Laura Ingraham, for reminding us that Boehner crying is a DC tradition. I also included a few other times he cried.
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