Former House Republican Speaker John Boehner tears up while paying homage to outgoing Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

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Well, they finally unveiled historically, so historic.

The portrait of Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house.

They have a big gallery of portraits and former speakers of the house over at the Capitol Rotunda.

And so they had a big event for this because Nancy Pelosi is,

of course, like her or dislike her, as I do. She is a historic figure. And so they had a big

event to unveil a portrait of Nancy Pelosi. And everybody was super excited because she's so

historic. She's the most historic of the historic people who have been historic in the relatively

historic history of the history. So it was all very exciting.

And former House Speaker, John Boehner, he showed up to pay tearful tribute to Nancy Pelosi.

And so there are a couple ways to take this. One is, as I will take it, as just an indicator

of just how pathetic the Republicans generally are in office. The other way to take is that

John Boehner just cries a lot. That dude cries a lot. But either way, he actually teared up while paying homage to Nancy Pelosi. Here's what he had to say. There's no other Speaker of the House in a modern era, Republican or Democrat. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, So, So, no. has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results

That's where he teared up?

Really?

Like that she was that she was a good political manipulator. But this does say something about the Republican Party, because that's not all that John Bainer had to say. He said, you've been incredibly effective as the leader of your caucus. The younger generation today has a saying, game recognizes game, which when you hear that coming out of the mouth of John Bainer is even weirder than when you hear it coming out of my mouth. The fact of the matter is no other speaker of the house in the modern era has wielded that gavel. That's what he said. And he called her a tough cookie, which used to be considered a sexist thing to say. Then he said, my girls told me, tell the speaker how much we admire her. As if you couldn't tell, my girls are Democrats, he said to

last at the ceremony in the Capitol. So I have a really basic question to ask actually here,

because I think this says a lot about the state of conservatism in the country, the state of the

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