Cry-Me and Shiver

Boo-hoo. Sniff. Gulp. Tremble. Shiver.

Ahhh, oh how sensitive those Republican menz can be. Yes, it’s almost a week since anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock has learned how emotional the future Speaker of the House, Mr. John Boehner, can be in public more often than a child flipping-out in a grocery check-out line when their parent-of-the-moment won’t let them have their own copy of Star Magazine to learn how Maddox Jolie-Pitt loves his knife collection. Or maybe they just want some candy.

Whatever the cause, it’s both refreshing and distressing to see how fragile our country’s most pompous leaders have been when it gets down to opening their tear ducts because they “love” their country while concurrently sticking a knife into 90% of the nation with steely “No’s” to everything which could soothe the gap between a rock and a hard place.

On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Boehner/Bay-ner couldn’t hold back his emotions while millions watched the tiny driblets of tears running down his orange face. Poor baby. Are you having a bout of male menopause per chance? I mean, if Nancy Pelosi had ever done such a thing the sabers would have been rattling all over the globe. She’s a woman, after all, and women in power simply cannot cry in public lest they lose credibility as capable leaders. She may be crying now, but at least not on a national TV program.

Now we have Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, choking-up on the floor of the Senate more than once, the most recent due to the exit of his chief of staff who prefers to begin lobbying than bobbling. Again, were Mr. Woe-ez-me McConnell to be so caring of the people, rather than the towering steeple of his ego, much more might be done to save the country from its current nightmares.

I wonder what would be said about Democratic leaders were they to begin crying and choking-up with seeming regularity? One guess is that their emotional stability would be called into question. Glenn Beck, in the midst of his own sobbing fests, might suggest in his daily Fox-based circus show, that Hitler was known to be an emotional guy, too, and, well, you know…all Democratic roads lead to Hitler on Becker’s nifty black chalk-board.

I’d love to end this post with a thought-provoking punch, but I’m feeling emotional right now. It’s okay. I’m a woman, and we’re allowed to cry unless we are in the public eye.

Pfffffftt.