MSNBC’s Maddow Fawns over ‘Refreshing and Lovable’ Speaker Boehner

John Boehner has given rise to a million memes and it is something people that make fun of him for

 “He controls such a fractious and self-righteously combative caucus that he’s had to work with Democrats to do even the basic stuff of keeping the lights on and that, of course, is seen as an unpardonable sin by the most combative, the loudest and therefore members of his caucus. … Just that, the crying thing about John Boehner has given rise to a million memes and it is something people that make fun of him for. As a crier, it is one of the things that I have always loved about him and to see somebody with that much power and responsibility and having to do with that many conflicting crosscurrents all the time, to see somebody who is willing to be seen crying even at just Hallmark moments, not just giant moments, he cries at the small stuff too and somebody who’s willing to sing to the press corps waiting for an important pronouncement, when he blows kisses as an ostentatious way of not making comment when he wants to deflect the press attention, his humanity in the job has been refreshing and lovable and there aren’t that many lovable politicians, I don’t think, at least on such a big stage. I hope we get somebody else who keeps in mind the human version – the human elements of the job because I think it makes the whole practice of politics more relatable.”

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