Nancy Pelosi: If John Boehner WERE A WOMAN, People Would Call Him 'The WEAKEST SPEAKER IN HISTORY'

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Madame Boehner is the weakest speaker in history......




WASHINGTON -- Not only is House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) a weak leader, but if he were a woman, people would be calling him "the weakest speaker in history," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday.



During an interview on MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes," Pelosi, who served as House speaker for four years before Boehner took over, was asked point-blank if she thinks Boehner is a weak speaker. "I will say this about John Boehner, and I have a good relationship" with him, Pelosi said. "If he were a woman, they'd be calling him the weakest speaker in history."



She said Boehner deserves that title because House Republican leaders "have never been able to pass anything without our coming to the rescue." The one exception to that rule, she said, is the GOP's "nasty" and "unprincipled" budgets.



"You know what, if a woman was speaker and nothing was happening in this way, they'd say, 'Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh,'" Pelosi said. "I'm just getting a little, shall we say, tired of some of the ways they take a pass on some and not on others. We get criticized for accomplishing things. They don't get criticized for not accomplishing things." A request for comment from Boehner's office was not immediately returned.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/nancy-pelosi-john-boehner_n_3269336.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[global1]

1. Correction: She Had A Good Relationship With Him....nt

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Nah, it is all Kabukii theater...

they play enemies when the cameras are on, then laugh at us over drinks when they are off.

[Cha]

2. Good on ya, Nancy.. calling out your so called

"leader". I like the framing. Could be referencing some of the rw bullshit that was thrown at her during her time as SOH.. when she was actually a strong leader.

thanks Segami

[BrotherIvan]

3. Why on Earth are Democrats coming to the Repulicans' "rescue" ??????

[Lobo27]

5. Not necessarily to their rescue, but the rescue of the Nation.

Dems passed the Sandy bill no thanks to the republicans.

[Quantess]

4. There's no crying in politics.

BTW, he looks so pale in that photo. The spray tan salon has been missing him.

[Dustlawyer]

6. He is more pale b/c he has been drinking more and golfing less!

[bobclark86]

7. Ahh... melodrama and hyperbole...

And Theodore Pomeroy was stronger?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_M._Pomeroy

Oh yeah, while most speakers count in years, this guy counted in hours without using his toes...

Does Boehner (How you get an "Ain" out of "oe," I'll never know) suck giant spray-tanned ass? Yes. Weakest speaker ever? Not really.

[shawn703]

10. Not really the comparison she was trying to make

I read something a while back stating that Boehner couldn't even get his party in line to pass a vote to dial 9-1-1 if he was on fire. While there may be other Speakers (and if you know of any, please point them out) who couldn't get his own team to agree on much of anything during his entire tenure, I can't think of one.

Pelosi is saying if a woman was Speaker and had this kind of track record, people wouldn't be holding back on the "weakest Speaker ever" criticism. Of course this is only conjecture since the only woman Speaker we had got a lot done, but the way some people seem to pounce on even the smallest things that women or minorities in positions of power might get wrong, her statement doesn't seem that far out there to me.

[SoCalDem]

8. They would call that person a hysterical crybaby

A female pol who cried at the drop of a hat would be laughed out of office for being a weepy woman.

She would never be allowed into upper echelons of power.

[meow2u3]

9. Boner doesn't need to be a woman to be the weakest Speaker in history

Agent Orange does a fine job being a weakling excuse for a Speaker as a "man." He's just a little boy who, like the entire modern GOP, (emotionally) too young to serve in Congress.

[BenzoDia]

12. He is indeed absolutely terrible and his children are running wild.

[SummerSnow]

13. Boehner is evolving..lol

His daughter just married a Black guy from Jamaica with dreadlocks.He had to be drunk at that wedding or crying or both.

[Jamaal510]

14. If this were a regular job outside of politics,

Boehner would've been fired on the first day of work, with his do-nothing self.