Jon Stewart appeared genuinely frightened by a freewheeling House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Monday night’s edition of “The Daily Show.”
The host was baffled by the GOP’s ongoing dance to potentially shut down the Department of Homeland Security unless the Obama administration undoes its executive action on immigration.
“So to stop the President from being too lenient on illegal immigration, you want to defund the department that secures the border?” Stewart asked, wincing.
“At least their vaunted leader, John Boehner, treats the House Republicans’ obstinance with the seriousness it deserves,” he said, cutting to a press conference with the House Speaker.
Asked if America would be less safe if Homeland Security funding dropped off, Boenher answered: “If ands or buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.”
Stewart was caught off guard, but not as much as he would be after the subsequent question.
Another reporter asked if the House Republicans were going to vote on a clean DHS funding bill. Before he even finished his question, Boehner pursed his lips and began smooching the air.
Stewart, at this point, was awestruck. “This guy is droppin’ rhymes and making kissy-faces to the press!”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
The man was inebriated. I wonder if it isn’t the plan of the Tea Party House members to drive Boehner to his grave earlier than he would have all by himself.
And the press lets him (BOEHNER) that is, get away with this disrespectful garbage.
I’m not saying Boehner is a drunk. But his behavior is consistent with that of a drunk.
To his grave? Ever consider WSE Slam Boehner has been marinating in the pickle juice for so long now that he’s technically no longer alive?
And in this condition, dead or alive, given the eRpublican stranglehold on the House and the fatal disaffection of the so many tens of millions of supposed reasonably Americans from the electoral process, Zombie Boehner could keep on doing whatever TF he’s been doing with equal efficacy for decades.
Boehner getting to ‘air’ 3rd base must be a sight to behold.
Humiliation, the Mother’s dead skin cells of politics…