The farewell of the president of the US House of Representatives brings congressmen together
John Boehner was always a crybaby. There are photos of the 73-year-old former Ohio congressman, the Republican Speaker of Congress from 2011 to 2015, as he wiped away his tears during Irish Pride, during the national anthem and, of course, on election night in 2010, when he learned that his party had won the election and Nancy Pelosi would have to transfer power from Congress to her.
None of those tears has caused as much discomfort to the conservative party as the tears she shed this Wednesday at the ceremony to inaugurate Pelosi’s portrait on Capitol Hill, two weeks after her term ended. “Miss Speaker,” Boehner confessed into the mike, “my girls have asked me to tell you that they look up to you,” he said, a lump in his throat. And with that, after acknowledging that the spokeswoman was always “constantly nice” to him, his family and his team, he burst into tears.
Moved, Pelosi, 82, got up from her chair and went to give him a hug. At the time, I didn’t think about how many hate tweets that moment would generate. Critics branded the retired Boehner a crook, accusing him of being part of the same club where everyone looks into each other’s pockets, regardless of party or “how many unborn children they’ve killed.”
Pelosi’s husband, violently attacked in the head with a hammer on Oct. 28, attended the ceremony with a hat on his head that hides the wounds much deeper in society than in his skull.
Source: La Verdad
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