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*? 2 ALL: BOEHNER CRIES AGAIN (AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN) - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
Hi Team!
*? 2 ALL:
BOEHNER CRIES AGAIN
(AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN) -
Raw Story reports:
"Incoming House Speaker John Boehner -- already famous for his crying
stints -- let the waterworks flow Wednesday as he assumed the
Speaker's chair from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"ABC News reports that Boehner broke out in tears no fewer than three
times during the ceremony on Capitol Hill -- once as he walked down
the aisle to applause, again as Pelosi read her introduction, and
finally as he took the podium.
"And Boehner was apparently not alone -- his relatives teared up too,
AP reports.
'It is known to bug Boehner that he can't keep it together at big
moments, but apparently it runs in the family. At the moment Pelosi
transferred power to her successor, at least six hankies had been
deployed by Boehner's proudly weeping family members watching from the
gallery overhead.'"
Boehner cries again (and again, and again) - what are your comments?
Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
Voice of the People
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Boehner cries again (and again, and again)
By Raw Story
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 -- 7:08 pm
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For her part, Pelosi took a jab at Boehner for requesting an oversized
gavel for his role as Speaker.
"I now pass this gavel, which is larger than most gavels here, but the
gavel of choice of Speaker Boehner, I now pass this gavel -- and the
sacred trust that goes with it -- to the new Speaker," Pelosi said.
The speakership caps a remarkable rise for Boehner, whose office
regularly peppers reporters with accounts of his hardscrabble early
life as the second of 12 children in a working-class family from Ohio
-- 10 of whom watched from the House visitors' gallery as he took the
oath of office.
Boehner has led House Republicans in lockstep opposition to Obama's
policies, notably his signature overhaul of US health care, which the
new speaker has vowed to target with a symbolic repeal vote on January
12.
As speaker, and backed by Republican committee chairs, he will enjoy
vast powers to shape the agenda in Washington and hamstring the White
House through to Obama's reelection campaign in 2012.
But with Democrats still in control of the Senate, and Obama still
holding a veto, the Ohio lawmaker will have to harness his
considerable deal-making powers to enact key parts of the Republican
platform.
Republicans have vowed to slash spending, scrap "job-killing"
government regulations, overhaul the tax code, crack down on
undocumented immigration, cut diplomatic and foreign aid funds, and
investigate the administration.
Obama and his Democratic allies, meanwhile, have attacked the dapper,
perpetually tan-looking golf enthusiast as a consummate political
insider and key architect of the economic policies that fostered the
painful recession.
During an early September visit to Boehner's home state, Obama blasted
the lawmaker as having "no new policies" and "no new ideas" and
peddling "the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first
place."
-- With AFP
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Tommy
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