Continued warfare makes John Boehner teary-eyed, but not for the reasons you might think.  Was the remark about his oath to defend the Constitution an indirect confession that he had failed to keep his oath?  It’s moments such as this one that remind me that I literally do not understand what makes Republican politicians tick.  Today’s GOP man is a strange mix of sentimentality and machismo; he has the heart of a compassionate jingo.  Weird.