Ugh. What kills me is the hysteria, ex: the furor around Obama's self-denigrating "Special Olympics" crack, and the utterly disingenuous indignation (see above column) surrounding a teasing remark. Yeah, Dana, Obama's remark about Boehner was just pure racism. Please.

We have enough ridiculous back and forth between the two sucky parties that purport to represent us that we don't need a former press sec playing naif.

The back and forth reminds me of my relationship with my sister. She hates me but has to deal with me for now, so she looks hard for things to be angry and self-righteous about. Is this what politics has become? A never-ending girl fight?

I've got kids in middle and high school, both of whom display a higher degree of maturity than this bunch.

Is this what politics has become? A never-ending girl fight?

Was it ever anything but?

Perhaps not when the politicians were actually shooting at or clubbing each other (Burr vs Hamilton, John C. Calhoun, et al come to mind), but it was still pretty petty even then.

And for Pete's sake, this is the Gridiron Club dinner. They (or their writers) are supposed to say things like that. I remember reading how President Clinton joked at one of those dinners that, in order to save money, they would dispense with a White House Christmas tree and just hang ornaments on Vice President Gore. He also proposed combining the BATF with the Interstate Trucking Commission and the Bureau of Fisheries. They were going to call it the Department of Guys.

IMWO (W for worthless), Obama fell into a trap laid by liberal feminists by denigrating Boehner's crying.

While some people claim the crying is contrived, (and the tan is a spray on,) what evidence is there that the crying is contrived?

So feminists claim to want sensitive guys who can cry, feminists claim that feminism is about breaking through these sorts of socially constructed gender roles, but when a Republican guy comes along who cries, then suddenly the feminists and other liberals cry foul, claim it's either contrived or that he is less of a man because of it.

I say that a democratic liberal who due to frustration regarding all sorts of issues, has yeah, weeped on a few occasions, much to my regret as certain parties can't let it go.

So I was more offended (which is to say measurable with a very small and fine ruler) by the crack about Boehner's crying than his fake tan.

But as RPM says, it's basically a roast, and Obama doesn't even write his own lines anyway, so who cares? It's just another occasion for the Press Corp and President to get too cozy so that the important issues cannot be discussed later on.

So feminists claim to want sensitive guys who can cry, feminists claim that feminism is about breaking through these sorts of socially constructed gender roles, but when a Republican guy comes along who cries, then suddenly the feminists and other liberals cry foul, claim it's either contrived or that he is less of a man because of it.

I would think less of anyone who cried at work except under the most extreme circumstances. (When my marriage was breaking down, I took my weepy ass outside on more than one occasion.) If Boehner were a woman, all the manly men among us would be suggesting she come back when she's not on the rag.

I don't think it's necessarily contrived. Maybe he just has an easily triggered cry reflex. But it's over the top, and people are going to make fun of him as a result.

I say my wife is "urine-colored" and she has a "turd-colored" friend.

You shouldnt let your wife use your butt plug BOTU

If Boehner were a woman, all the manly men among us would be suggesting she come back when she's not on the rag.

I would have so loved to hear a woman say that about him on TV

I must say that the joke, taken in isolation, is pretty funny. But jokes about Boehner's skin have been done to death, just like Obama's ears. I think the biggest sin here is that a bunch of very highly paid writers couldn't come up with a fresh joke if their lives depended on it. Rob Petrie is spinning in his fictional grave.

John Boehner is a bipolar oompa loompa.

Quite frankly -- I don't care what is said at the Gridiron Dinner, the National Press Corp dinner or where ever else.

What is your job as a Congressman or President? You are in Washington D.C. to represent the best interest of the people of these United States.

It is not to go to dinner, talk to lobbyists, or run in 2012 (or 14 or 16). It is to run a controlled government according to the Consitution of These United States.

I am so tired of this BS between left and right. Just run a government that is fiscally sane.

Its been a while scince I've watched the movie but I thought the oompa lompas were all bipolar already.