Seth Meyers says good-bye to Speaker of the House John Boehner, while taking a funny yet factual look at the ‘Tan Man’ who followed the Pope’s speech by doing a mic drop, and walking away.
Boehner stunned many when he announced his resignation on Friday, Perhaps the Papal presence gave Boehner the necessary push to say ‘bye witches!’ and walk away from the powerful job he’d wanted all of his life – smiling broadly and singing ‘Zip-a-dee-doo dah!’ The former Speaker grins frequently now, and has the demeanor of someone whose prison sentence has been commuted by the Governor.
Pictured: New to the Speaker position, Boehner declined the use of Nancy Pelosi’s standard issue gavel. Boehner is seen here, admiring his own freakishly large gavel…As if we required proof that size does NOT matter. Boehner soon found that nothing was large enough to help him control the Republican Party, and their far-out right-wing annex, who are hell- bent on Obama-blocking anarchy, and multi billion dollar government shut-downs. Values Voter Republicans are so gawd-awful that they’ve caused me to feel empathy for John Boehner. Knock-it-off already and go away, you people are horrible!
Seth’s innately funny eye captures Boehner’s rocky five years, and his unique relationship his own party, and with President Obama – iced tea drinker. Speaker Boehner – who likes Merlot, hasn’t announced his plans for the future, but after seeing this video, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him purchase some acreage to mow…Just to mow. With a tip of the hat to John Boehner, Seth observed:
“The job sucked so much, he realized all the Merlot in the world couldn’t get him through it.”