From Matt Taibbi’s tour de force portrait of John Boehner as a shill for highest bidder:
“He cries sometimes when we’re having a debate on bills,” grumbled Nancy Pelosi. “If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics — no, I don’t cry.”
Perhaps this scene resonated with me especially since we just watched, again, the still excellent movie “A Taxing Woman.” It too features a woman who is a pragmatic enforcer of civil duty and at least one man who is a histrionic scoundrel planted by moneyed interests to plunder the state (or at least, aid and abet the plunderers).