Boehner's crying might be a medical condition. Please stop joking about it.

[DetlefK]

I have the same symptoms.

As a kid, stress made me cry. I didn't understand why tears started flowing, I was confused, I didn't want it, it was embarrassing and that caused more stress.

Today, as an adult, I can still feel it, although not that strong. Sometimes, in heated discussions, my eyes get itchy and I can feel it building, but somehow I'm able to suppress it.



That's why I think it's a medical condition and that's why those jokes about John Boehner crying are not funny to me. It's about as funny as joking about Ron Paul's lack of eyebrows or Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore being fat.

[ret5hd]

1. As long as we are speculating, they may be crocodile tears.

[GoneOffShore]

2. Recced your reply.

But perhaps crocodile tears are a medical condition.

[inna]

29. recced your reply

(or at least wish i could, lol)

[trueblue2007]

52. if he can't take the heat..... he should get out of the kitchen!!!

[Initech]

3. That may be but his use of bronzer definitely isn't.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Penalty for being too reasonable.

That was sarcasm, but I've wondered also.

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. alcohol makes me weepy

:)

[babylonsister]

7. !!

:D

[tsuki]

18. My first thought. nt

[Tikki]

6. If it is a medical condition could there be a...

medication or procedure that could arrest this condition.

He has a golden medical insurance plan. He is a highly paid
government employee...his constituents must wonder why
he doesn't even try to act like a grown-up.


Tikki

[Sal Minella]

51. Maybe he already knows perfectly well what his medical diagnosis

is, and also knows his personality deterioration will accelerate rapidly, and he'd rather have people think he's just a blubbering idiot instead of having people know he's a rapidly deteriorating Congresscritter.

Since Congresscritters make a consistent 12% on the stock market, he wants to remain a Congresscritter as long as he possibly can. Orange or not, sobbing or not. imo.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Bi-polar? Manic depressive?

I agree, he's got an emotional problem...could it lead to a nervous breakdown? If Pelosi and shed 1/1000 the volume of tears that Boehner has...she'd be ridiculed incessantly by the RW Wurlitizer as proof that she was unfit to be Speaker. It's all relative with these people. IOKIYAR

[redqueen]

25. +1

[geardaddy]

28. RW Wurlitizer

I love it.

And +10000 to your post, btw.

[Scuba]

9. Just another weepy drunk. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

10. what's the name of the medical condition?

He has the best medical care in the world available to him. Surely he can come up with a diagnosis.
I frankly don't think there is one. I think he is totally out of touch with his emotions. He shows no empathy to others, e.g. his failure to visit Ms. Giffords, and does not seem able to control his own emotions.
I will show empathy for his alleged medical condition the moment he shows empathy for the millions of Americans who are unable to get any medical care.

[babylonsister]

13. What you said!

:thumbsup:

[sarcasmo]

21. I would like to know the name of the condition as well.

[Tatiana]

22. I think the condition is called alcoholism. n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

31. There it is. I suspect the same. -nt

[banned from Kos]

47. Pseudobulbar affect (PBA)

"Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), emotional lability, labile affect or emotional incontinence refers to a neurologic disorder characterized by involuntary crying or uncontrollable episodes of crying and/or laughing, or other emotional displays.<1> PBA occurs secondary to neurologic disease or brain injury. Patients may find themselves crying uncontrollably at something that is only moderately sad, being unable to stop themselves for several minutes. Episodes may also be mood-incongruent: a patient might laugh uncontrollably when angry or frustrated, for example."

(Wiki)

[Sanity Claws]

55. Brain damage?

If that is true, he does not belong in Congress. We need people who are fully in control of their faculties and emotions.

BTW, I knew someone who suffered this particular condition after a car accident. It was very, very difficult to be around her. The emotional lability is extreme -- crying for absolutely no reason. In contrast, Boehner shows no such emotional lability when it comes to others' feelings or lives. He shows almost a psychopathic disregard for others. Such emotional control in those situations indicate that he does not suffer PBA.

[JuniperLea]

58. !

Yes, do tell! I'd like to know as well.

[Tom Ripley]

59. "Weepy Sentimental Drunkenness"

[FarLeftFist]

11. I'll wait for Boehner's diagnosis.

[lame54]

12. You're going to the mat for Boner on "might"?

[UTUSN]

14. Respect to you, but his is recognizably what a little sobriety might cure.

It sounds like you tear up, but doesn't sound like you sob self-pityingly like him. Even if his is an alcoholic condition that would be worthy of compassion as much as the other things you mentioned, the point of mocking LIMBOsevic is his horrific agenda and his merciless scourging of others.

My mother taught us, "Don't do what they do. You don't want to be like them, do you?"

I long left that behind. "They" will just treat you like a sap.



On Edit: HITLER had drug abuse, probably Parkinson's(?), and other things. He loved dogs, too. And LIMBOsevic loves Xmas. I can't think of any of those as a reason not to mock them with whatever tools come to mind.

[beac]

15. If he does have a stress-related crying condition, then it says A LOT

that he didn't shed a single tear when talking about the shooting of Gabby Giffords.

But why would be be "stressed" when presenting a medal to an astronaut?

I appreciate your wanting to stand up for people with your condition. I just don't see any evidence that Boehner is one.

[Sal Minella]

43. "why would be be 'stressed' when presenting a medal to an astronaut?"

Because Boner knows he could never be as beloved as an astronaut -- and an astronaut has the difficulties of his career already behind him, and can look forward to adulation and fame and fortune with no further effort.

Boner can never be popular with the public because he has (deliberately) alienated himself from the general welfare of the citizenry, he knows he will never get a medal from anybody except some inconsequential right-wing wackazoid outfit, he knows he will be booed instead of cheered if he appears unannounced in front of a crowd -- in short Boner is jealous, and he cries when stressed by jealousy, I think.

Remember when he was weeping while talking about his own "disadvantaged" childhood -- Boner cries only for himself. I honestly think he's not capable of any emotional reaction on behalf of people other than himself.

[Iggo]

16. No.

[piratefish08]

17. maybe it's because he just cares TOO much......

and the caring just bursts out his eyes when it has nowhere else to go?


maybe?

[GodlessBiker]

19. What's funny is an orange face crying.

[rustydog]

20. When that "Christian conservative, family values" crying piece of shit

shows that he cares about the future of MY America, not Rush Limpballs, Rupert Murdoch's not the Koch Brothers America, I MIGHT consider not making fun of that uncaring, self-serving piece of republican dung who crys if someone pressures him on issues.

I didn't see him cry over the victims of Katrina, I didn't see him cry over the people America Tortured to death in the name of fighting terror, I didn't see him cry for the homeless vets who bravely served this country and I did not see this self-serving pile of dung cry when he and Newt Gingrich shut down the government the last time they had power.


Until he proves he is not a whore for 400 ultra-rich, he can go cry in Hell.

[redqueen]

27. +1

[Javaman]

23. ...

:cry:

[Capitalocracy]

24. If he doesn't want us to make fun of him, he should probably indicate that

But I certainly would never make fun of someone for a medical condition.

[rustydog]

32. hear hear!

Leave that to Rush limpballs making fun of Michael J. Fox.
Would it be fair to ask Boehner if he cried when he heard of Rush-bo doing that? Or did he laugh with Rush?

[pipi_k]

26. It's not going to stop, you know...

If Boehner were a Democrat...or if some other male Democrat did the same thing, anyone making fun of him would be jumped on and ripped a new asshole. He's a Republican. So that makes him fair game.


Because it's always "cool" to make fun of the Other Guys.

:eyes:

[Politicalboi]

35. I don't think so

If this were Ben Nelson, we would do the same for him. But since Boner is a complete asshole, he deserves all we can give him.

[pipi_k]

44. I disagree

For the most part, anyway.

While it's true that some here would do the same if it were a Democrat, the majority would not.

One example being that whole Anthony Weiner thing. He's a Democrat, so the majority opinion was that he was being set up. Had he been a Republican...guilty without evidence!!! As it was, Andrew Breitbart, who started the whole thing, was vilified even after the truth came out. DAMN HIM for exposing the truth!!!!



Also...making fun of someone for something he may not be able to help doesn't exactly seem like a Democrat/Liberal value, but hey...go wild.

[Sal Minella]

54. If he can't keep himself from sobbing uncontrollably at inappropriate

times, he probably should find some other line of work than running for public office.

[kestrel91316]

46. Your disdain for what DEMS do is duly noted. AGAIN.

[Tsiyu]

60. Yes, it's interesting the vehemence

with which some one ALWAYS attacks Dems.

We're all just such meanies, picking on helpless babies here! Poor, poor, POOR Mr. Boner!!!!!!! :cry:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

57. So we can't EVER make fun of Republicans?

Everything they say or do could potentially be explained by a physical or social condition. Oh, they're complete religious nuts? The poor dears can't help it because they were raised in a fundamentalist religious home and were completely brainwashed by their parents. They glorify death and the execution of people? Well, you have to understand that clinically they are sociopaths and have no conscience, a mental condition they couldn't change even if they wanted to (and wouldn't want to because that's a part of their sociopathology). They say stupid things? Well, they can't help it because their parents never gave them a home in which knowledge and the intellect are prized, and of course we know all about the anti-intellectual attitude in which they grew up in our public school system.

I don't mean to pile on, but sometimes making fun of assholes is mean on our part but well-earned on theirs. You seem to have a very good heart, though. Maybe too good.

[The Second Stone]

30. What is the name of this condition?

And how do we know that Boehner has it, other than that he weeps at emotional times? The times he weeps seem to me to be not to be stress triggers, but rather at times when talking about patriotic things.

[saras]

33. If it were medical, it wouldn't only appear when politically appropriate

[gkhouston]

63. +1. n/t

[Evasporque]

34. That is so sad....

:cry: :cry:

[Zoeisright]

36. Oh please.

He's a whiny drunk. Period. Grow up.

[HughBeaumont]

49. +1.

Medical condition my ARSE.

[opihimoimoi]

37. All that SAUCE at the CLUB should be curtailed to see if it would help

Too much sauce usually fucks your Brain...not your water valves

[Gold Metal Flake]

38. If your weepy orange Boner lasts for more than two years...

...consult your electorate.

[FarLeftFist]

39. He started slinging the insults first. Can't stand the heat?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

40. Im sorry, but

this makes me want to :rofl:

Your sensitivity for Boner is touching.

[The Straight Story]

41. I wonder if his being a total asshole is a medical condition too?

:evilgrin:

[DainBramaged]

42. I'm speculating that as long as BONER is in the public view

he is subject to criticism and abuse.

[kestrel91316]

45. I assume you have been diagnosed by a physician. What is the name of your

condition?

[DetlefK]

61. No, I didn't. The trick is to stay calm and focused and that's good enough for me.

Over the last decade, it happened only a handful of times and only one situation seems embarrassing to me in hindsight.

Stay cool, stay focused, keep your mental self-control and everything's fine. I don't need a doctor for that.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

48. So like your childhood problem, Boner can't handle stress? Shouldn't that be pointed out?

Should we trust that in the event an unfortunate crisis happens and the Presidency resides with him, he won't break down and cry if the nuclear suitcase finds its way into his lap? THAT is something of great concern. As far as laughing at his crying, he's a big boy now and he should be able to take it (and if he can't, he should be out of office).

[Ruby the Liberal]

50. Nothing a little detox and rehab couldn't address, IMO.

[libodem]

53. He did seem pathetic

And I felt uncomfortable for him. I still do not embrace his politics. The medical condition might be depression. And you know how that goes. "Real men", don't admit weakness, get sick, need sleep, or not drink everybody else under the table. All deeply suppressed until it squeezes out of his eyes.

[MilesColtrane]

56. "Boehner's crying might be a medical condition"

Or, he might be a pandering drunk.

Who's to say?

:shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

62. I'm sorry that you have suffered. But Boehner didn't cry when Gabby Giffords was shot.

In his live statement, he looked frightened. He's a liar, an opportunist, a tool.

Be well!

[AlinPA]

64. Maybe he is just good at acting, faking it...like he really "cares".

[spanone]

65. bwahahahahaaaa

[A-Schwarzenegger]

66. Orangeheaduphisassitis.

[Quantess]

67. WOW... frequent crying and bright orange skin are 2 symptoms of Boehner Syndrome.

Take note, medical researchers!