I'd cry, too, if I lived in a country that didn't know how to lose in regularly scheduled tests of its democratic governance, lowering the bar so low to offer a disgusted electorate the two most unpopular candidates in its history.

Boehner was "my man" for trying to make the republic's dysfunctional system work as the founders intended by re-writing over many years. The GOP vowed to oppose everything Obama proposed before he was sworn in; Obama's plea to the party was the opposite at his last press conference.

Until Americans learn to lose--- and win---respecting each other and their institutions they will remain a great country tearing itself to pieces, a collective "party of the people" a distant memory. On a personal note, James and I are Canadians of differing sides who know how to lose. I lose more often!