Cockwork orange
By DougJ, Head of Infidelity September 27th, 2010
I don’t care about John Boehner’s personal life, but my friends tell me this could be a big story (via Mike Stark):
Insiders on Capitol Hill are buzzing about an upcoming New York Times exposé that will detail an alleged Boehner affair.
Boehner’s alleged paramour is a lobbyist.
Again, don’t think extramarital affairs should matter in politics, but they do.
Posted in Green Balloons, Politics
Best. Title. EVAH!
September 27th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
This is going to be a long week.
TMJ +1 (and that one’s basically medicinal)
September 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
why now?
why reveal it now?
and, who did the revealing?
just askin’.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
ha ha ha ha
September 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
No one will care.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Do you think she’s blue so that they could complement each other? Maybe she’s the opera singer from the Fifth Element.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Really, with a name like Boehner, how long until this happened?
I always thought Boehner looked like an emcee for a bad Vegas strip show, with his day-glo tan and a cigarette dangling from the corner of his lip. Just put him a velvet suit with contrasting lapels and cut-rate showgirl on his arm.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
@John Cole:
Thanks—I changed it back, as you suggested.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Ya’ forgot the Hiking the Appalachian Trail tag, also.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
I think its gross and I don’t care.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Time to excavate everything Orange Julius said during the Clinton impeachment.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Palladino – pulled a full “Edwards” – has a 10 year old daughter after an affair. His wife found out last year. You’d think that would eliminate him from any serious contention on the right – that is if there was any shred of truth to the rights concerns about “values”. The whole incident will likely be dismissed.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:00 am
A) @John Cole: This.
B) Extra-marital affairs shouldn’t matter in politics—except among those who frequently and loudly claim their moral high-ground by way of their sexual purity. Then they actually should matter.
Every completely human sexual thing that a member of the GOP does—cheat on his/her spouse, have sex with someone of his/her own gender, ride the marry-divorce-marry-divorce carousel—counts like fucking crazy. They’ve made this bed all on their own, and now maybe John Boehner will have to lie in it. Please God.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Should be “A” Cockwork Orange BTW
September 28th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Extramarital affairs are of issue as long as the politicians themselves make an issue of “family values”. The hypocrisies of adultery, soliciting prostitutes, and “life-style choices” never once enter their minds… until it’s THEIR asses on the tabloids’ front pages.
By the by, how’s the Ensign scandal investigation going?
By the by, why is Vitter cruising to electoral victory, you Louisiana voters?
If only Sanford lied better back in 2009, he’d be a front-runner for the 2012 primaries.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Ut Latinē dicimus: Noehmen est omen.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I think Johnny B just got shanked in the back by his Gooper buddies.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I wonder if this will be half as huge as the McCain affair with a lobbyist that turned out to be complete bullshit.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:03 am
HAHAHAHA
Godda*n you Doug, my beer is all over my shirt now, it’s ruined.
Man, that title is good in so many ways.
To get a bit serious though, IOKIYAAR.
You think that this might be the one time this isn’t true?
Certainly isn’t stopping Vitter.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:04 am
Thank god it wasn’t self-abuse. That’s the real sin, don’tcha know?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:06 am
OK, you can retire and just walk around saying “I’m the guy who came up with the Cockwork Orange blog title.” People will fight to buy you meals and houses and shit.
He’s the motherfucker in the Family Values party. The reason this shit has legs is because some people can’t stop screaming about what consenting adults get up to.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Extra-marital affairs with lobbyists should certainly matter. For other extra-marital affairs, I’d agree. Sex is not our business. Business influencing government is our business.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:07 am
I always figured that members of Congress were issued lobbyist paramours right after they were inaugurated. Stories like this, coming close to an election, never have any impact. They are easily shrugged off as typical political dirty tricks.
And I thought that Boehner was in the closet. Assuming that his alleged lover is a woman, this rumor may work in his favor.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:07 am
@Davis X. Machina: Ooh, I forgot about masturbation in my list! Damn.
Add “beat off to the imagined images of strangers” to the above, pls: @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Kthxbai.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Win thread title is win.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Normally, I would say that an extramarital affair shouldn’t matter. And generally speaking, I don’t think they matter. But, as always, there are exceptions, and this may be one. If she’s a lobbyist, then there’s an issue of undue influence, and that could be an issue.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:08 am
God, I can’t imagine banging that freak show. He looks like he’s been hanging out right next to a nuclear power plant, for fuck’s sake. I mean, even if they did it with the lights off, I think he glows in the dark.
Maybe if he wore a wetsuit. Or two.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:10 am
My comment was ated. FYWP.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Are we expected to believe that someone slept with Boehner?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:12 am
I think it’s kind of quaint that we’re worried about a Congressman having sex with a lobbyist. I mean, they bend over for the lobbyists figuratively all day; at this point I’m having a hard time caring about whether they do it literally.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:12 am
@kommrade reproductive vigor: I’mma let you finish, but…actually, I just wanted to agree with you. I don’t give a fuckity-fuck (except maybe for the lobbyist part) except for the Family Values crap. Live by that goddamn sword, then you fucking die by that goddamn sword. Not that he will.
@PaulW: Ensign is the one who really blows my mind (ew. Bad image there. Sorry). I mean, dildi and wet suits? OK. Whatever. But he was playing with house money. That’s gotta piss someone on the right off, amirite?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:12 am
@PaulW:
He’s gonna let us keep our guns!
And he’s white!
And did I mention the guns?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:12 am
Sam Seder called this an intra-party power play over the weekend. The only way the media will pay attention is if one of Boehner’s rivals wants them too, still fun to play guess who—Cantor? somebody in the Bachman-Goehmert Goon Squad?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:14 am
Doug J: You “don’t care”?
Then either bow out of political commentary, or form a David Broder Fan Club.
There’s no in-between anymore*.
(*Hat Tip to the Boardwalk Empire writers).
September 28th, 2010 at 12:14 am
@asiangrrlMN:
Nope. He’s a (ostensibly) straight white male who votes the right way. They will back him to the hilt because he supports the oligarchy. When he actually COSTS them bread, he’ll get shanked. And IIRC his investigation is still open, though I’m not sure what the hang-up is.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:15 am
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
I was wondering a bit about that angle, I remember Joe Scar talking about how Boehner spends too much time in bars a few months back.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:16 am
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
Don’t you mean Bachman Gohmert Overdrive?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:18 am
@Yutsano: Sigh. I know. Still, his shit was pretty out there, even for a guy who votes the right way and has the right pigmentation, genitalia, and sexual preferences.
Oh well. How the hell are you? Use any polysyllabic words today?
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh my god I love that way too much.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Curse those gays and their marriages for driving Orange Julius into sinful fornication.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:20 am
@DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.: Just occured to me too, is that what the Scar meant about “too many nights on the town”. I still have Boehner pegged as a boozer
+4 and on my way to the fridge—GO BEARS!
September 28th, 2010 at 12:20 am
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: HOLY BALLS I LOVE IT WHEN YOU GET ANGRY LIKE THAT.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:21 am
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist: there’s two ways this plays out bad for Boehner.
Scenario Numero Uno: the internal polls show that the GOP is going to take over the House, and someone (probably a Tea Partier) wants to make a power play because, if not for the Tea Party yadda yadda yadda…
Scenario Numero Dos: the internal polls suggest that the GOP is not going to take over the House, Boehner is going to be the fall guy afterwards anyway. But, if there is a leadership scandal before the election, that can be blamed for the Tea Partiers not showing up because the GOP establishment is just like the Democrats and not interested in helping real Americans, and yadda yadda yadda
I just don’t see how they can avoid cannibalizing themselves either way. It is simply their nature to turn on each other when an opportunity like this presents itself.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Weird, I just commented about GOP affairs going de riguer in future just to prove one has the equipment for it at “No More MIster Nice Blog”. I think I forsee a point of “normalization” where it actually doesn’t matter, or matters in the reverse: Well, why isn’t everyone having affairs, politics being as sexy as it is, and all? Then I come here….
The title of this post gave me bad visual—bad….bad….bad….
But lobbyist? Nothing we wouldn’t have expected. If there’s a story, I’m almost ready to bet only quid pro quo would make it.
(Also—agree with robertdcs: Isn’t Pence supposedly the guy who dropped the dime, adjusted for inflation? Or at least is vigorously alleging he certainly wasn’t?)
September 28th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Did I hear on the radio that Paladino took his illegit daughter on a trip to Italy and they visited the Vatican? Supporting his daughter is a very honorable thing. But the Vatican’s standards sure have slipped.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:22 am
@jacy:
This may not be far off. I always figured he had a voice that could only have been tuned by a pack of Marlboro Reds everyday, for decades.
FTA:
Talk about a preemptive strike…
September 28th, 2010 at 12:23 am
@asiangrrlMN: In the tribe all sins can be forgiven. Just don’t upset the natural order of things and all will be well. Remember they can tolerate their own corruption as long as they keep retaining the benefits.
If I used one I don’t recall. The learning was very dense today.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:24 am
@KG: This has happened, sort of, before, in 1998, when Gingrich couldn’t deliver the big win in the House. He was replaced by Livingston, who in turn was burnt within weeks by parties unknown giving us Speaker Hastert.
Thuds and screams from the Topkapi Palace tonight…
September 28th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Finally, someone is fucking the lobbyists instead of the other way around.
Fight the power Boehner!
Any confirmation that Hamsher has accused Cole of nailing a lobbyist?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:27 am
I don’t even understand what the upside would be here. Gee, we get rid of John Boehner, only the most effective Republican leader since Shmedrick McNobody. Wow.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Let’s see. The term “nepotism” was coined after the practice of popes and cardinals appointing their “nephews” (wink wink nudge nudge, say no more) to positions of prominence within the Vatican.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Of course an affair with a lobbyist would be a big deal for Boehner. We don’t have sex in Ohio. We don’t believe in it. We don’t even think about it.
Babies are ordered from Amazon and delivered by the Big Brown Truck.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:31 am
@Linda Featheringill: I thought girls came FedEx.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:32 am
@Yutsano: Yeah, I guess. Still, the guy broke the law. You know, like actually broke the—oh, for fuck’s sake. I can’t even convince myself that it matters. Forget it.
So is your poor head hurting? Come rest it on my pillows.
@Brachiator: Is this actually true? (The root of nepotism)? Huh. I never knew that. I like learning new things about words.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:34 am
@Steve: which is exactly why they would do it.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:34 am
@KG: The Republicans are desperate to replace Boehner because he’s ineffective? Gee, which reincarnation of Lincoln do you think they’ll replace him with?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:36 am
@asiangrrlMN: Mmm…jubleys.
Had this stuck in my head all day. I thought Springfield was the capital of
Massachusetts, but I learned I guessed.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:38 am
@Steve: no, they’ll replace him because he’s been effective. At least that’s my thinking.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:39 am
@Ross Hershberger: I just saw a Cuomo ad and they picked a great picture of Paladino that really makes him look like Nosferatu. Now that may actually appeal to some on the right, but I think it will be a very effective tactic with the “independents”.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:42 am
He really does want to be the new Gingrich, doesn’t he?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:42 am
DougJ, that title is a flash of genius. I could have easily sat down for a thousand years and never have come up with that.
On the substance, though, I hope the rumors of intra-party scheming is true, because if the Dems brought it up it is destined to backfire. Not to mention, it’s pretty lacking in taste to go there, all potential ethical violations notwithstanding of course.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:42 am
This is funny actually. The GOP has had no central leadership for several years. The Boehn-ster is the closest thing that they have to a figurehead. Probably because he’s marginally easier on the eyes than Limbaugh and not prone to fits of bawling like Beck. And now he might go down in a scandal. Who will carry the standard? Who will fill Lincoln’s shoes and lead the GOP to victory? Really. Who do they have?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:42 am
So, Boehner made a boner by boning. Bummer.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I will add, too, also, that DougJ wins the Internets.
Why does he win the Internets? Because he could have easily gone with some groaner “boner” joke, but he instead came up with a sublime mindfuck of a title.
ETA: Ah well, late to the “emphasis on the ‘o’ not the ‘e’” party, I see :(
September 28th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Fucking a lobbyist.
As in, John Boehner gets paid for sex.
That’s the most depressing thought I’ve had in 10 years.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Really. Who do they have?
Wouldn’t Cantor take the Leadership role?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:45 am
@Omnes Omnibus:
In the suburbs.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:46 am
I would have put money on him boning the secretary at his tanning salon. He probably spends more time there than in Congress.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Holy hell, Trapper says it looks like Rahm is seriously considering exiting stage left – next fucking week.
h/t TPM
September 28th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Take the position? Yes. Lead? Hard to imagine.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:50 am
@Yutsano: Wait, you really thought Springfield was the capital of Mass? Quick, what’s the capital of MN?
September 28th, 2010 at 12:51 am
@Loneoak:
Too obvious.
@scarshapedstar: He’s just a gigolo
September 28th, 2010 at 12:52 am
@Ross Hershberger:
He not only took his daughter to Italy, but her mother. Oh, and he told his wife about his daughter a few hours after their son had been killed in a car crash.
Quite a piece of work.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:52 am
@The Dangerman: only if he could get the votes. And with a potential wave of Tea Party crazies coming in, there’s no guarantee that they will get in line, setting up a leadership battle.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:52 am
@IndyLib: Yepper. All over the place, now, so not much of a secret.
I predict in one week Rahm is rolling down Michigan Ave in a tank at the head of a giant invasion force. I don’t see how we can defeat him.
We need a superhero like Kick Ass.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:54 am
@Ross Hershberger:
As someone who went through twelve years of parochial school, I am required to point out that handing one’s illegitimate offspring over to The Church has a long, if not honorable, history.
My vote for the GOP insider trying to spike Boehner goes to Mike Pence. He’s ambitious enough to try it, and dumb enough not to count the votes before he does.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:54 am
@Origuy:
There are no words adequate to express how horrific that is.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:57 am
@Linda Featheringill:
My Michigander Spousal Unit (hearts) you for that comment!
September 28th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Wait, no chance of two cocks involved here?
Nothing to see, move along.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:58 am
@Origuy: If you’ve lived in Buffalo, and met some Italian-American construction types, you might think Paladino is liberal in comparison. He’s gotta be in like the 5% who don’t have felonies.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:59 am
@asiangrrlMN: Duluth. :-P
I did watch the song y’know. I just had the idea that the capital was anywhere but Boston. Then again lots of folks think Seattle is the capital of Washington, so there you go.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:00 am
LOL, top drawer title indeed!
September 28th, 2010 at 1:01 am
lmao @ title.
It would be richer if the alleged paramour was male.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:01 am
@Origuy: Man. That’s cold. Seriously. He has sunk to a depth from which I fervently hope he is never extracted.
@Yutsano: This is true. Capitals are never what you think they are, or you think the obvious choice is too obvious.
@General Stuck: Oh shit. I totally added the “l” in my mind. DougJ’s way is a million times funnier!
September 28th, 2010 at 1:02 am
@BGinCHI:
I haven’t been on the intertubes much the last week, so I missed it. I am just surprised he’s leaving so close to the election.
I wondered who was going to try to take over for Daly. I don’t hate Rahm particularly but I have to say that I can see him as a long time Mayor of Chicago and that’s not a compliment.
edit addition – “Cockwork Orange” is the best laugh I’ve had all week.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:02 am
@Yutsano:
In any other state, it would be! There’s a theory in these parts that Springfield’s sad fate was taken as a lesson by all you latecomer states—ambitious politicians figured out that making our biggest, most prosperous city the commonwealth capital meant less power & patronage for would-be machers. It certainly was cited as a reason for moving the national capital away from NYC and Philadelphia… there was talk of seating His American Not-Majesty in Richmond, but the Virginians didn’t want a lot of ungentlemenly businessmen and professionals to be given a reason for hanging around the FFVs. Which lead to the “compromise” that made DC the weird supreme-and-yet-supremely-powerless political chimera that it is.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Boehner will hold a “Because shut up is why!” press conference with his wife looking on dutifully and that, plus maybe a spritz of ol’ time religion, will be case closed.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:18 am
@Anne Laurie: There’s some similar sordid story as to how exactly Olympia got chosen for Washington but I don’t recall all the finer details at this moment. I do know that my little college town was considered a front runner for awhile, but that was when rails were much more important than they are now.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:18 am
OT
After a full day of blogging with abandon, I am so proud of myself. Don’t think I issued a single “fuck you” to anyone.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:19 am
@General Stuck: Feux toi aussi. Je vous en prix. :)
September 28th, 2010 at 1:21 am
@plaindave:
How do you value a good fuck for purposes of including it on a financial disclosure form? And did Boehner fail to report that he had received, umm, “gifts?”
It’s not the sex, Doug, it’s the lying about it.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:21 am
@Yutsano: Everything sounds better in French.
@General Stuck: I did, though not explicitly.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:23 am
@burnspbesq: Just remember what finally busted Al Capone, my good man. Death by IRM.
@asiangrrlMN: Mais oui, ma cheri. Though I will say there is something to being seduced in Italian.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:26 am
So, Rahm may be out. Which completely unrealistic candidate will the professional left demand replace him in order to have the next 3 months to bitch about how Obama has failed them?
I think Kucinich is too obvious. I’m going with Alan Grayson.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:29 am
@Martin: Want to watch firebagger heads asplode? Offer to promote Gibbs. That will make popcorn futures go through the roof.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:33 am
Don’t we all know that Boehner’s been fucking a lonely golf-cart for years? Anyway, compared to the harm he and his cretinous colleagues have already done the country, the fact he inflicted his vile attentions on an unfortunate woman/goat/golf-cart/beef stroganoff hardly matters. Fuck him and the golf-cart he “rode in” on with a pneumatic road-drill.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:38 am
@Yutsano: is that amour or arson there, mon vieux?
September 28th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Christian nation, my ass.
And what about us godless assholes seeking to wreck the country?
Yeah, that what I would have guessed.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:42 am
this title is a total ftw. That is all.
@Martin:
Just not a surprise. As I’ve told many a conservative fundy, I’ve forgotten more bible than you’ll ever know.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:43 am
@Yutsano:
Ma cherie, or mon cheri, please. Think of the children!
September 28th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Cenk wants Howard Dean, according to his blog at HuffHo.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:47 am
@Martin: I read that article earlier. This quote was buried about halfway through.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:48 am
@Yutsano: Shit, almost every name will make their heads explode. I suspect that if he gave the job to Warren that they’d find some way to call her a sell-out.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Cenk wants Howard Dean, according to his blog at HuffHo.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:49 am
@cat48:
Isn’t the former chairman too busy burning mosques and embracing teabaggers?
September 28th, 2010 at 1:52 am
@Yutsano:
Italian? It’s such an ugly language. What about Russian?
September 28th, 2010 at 1:52 am
@Martin: Hasn’t that ship sailed already? They were foaming at the mouth when she appeared to take the “compromise” of less than full Senatorial approval. Never mind the fact she’s filling the role she wants to at this exact moment. Sigh. Purity must get tiresome after awhile.
@morzer: No haz, so no care too much. Well that’s not entirely true. I do mind my language in public. Usually.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:54 am
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
Isn’t it time you faced up to certain realities, Jim. Come on. You’re a very attractive man, Jim. You’re smart, you’ve got wonderful bones, great eyes, and you dress really interestingly…
September 28th, 2010 at 1:55 am
@Yutsano:
Then, for sake of the public welfare, I implore you to ensure that your nouns and possessive adjectives agree in gender. Also too, number.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Once you’ve had Orange
You’ll never…
Uh, wait a sec. Nothing rhymes with orange.
Never mind.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:57 am
@Martin: Back when I was a damp little college freshperson, and people wondered how I could resist the philosophical charms of both objectivism and marxist-lesbian-separatism, I’d point to twelve years in parochial school. Because once you’ve survived smallpox, you don’t have to worry about catching cowpox.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:02 am
@Binzinerator:
Once you’ve had orange, you’ll never want orange again.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:03 am
Great Daily Show Moment of Zen with Lawrence O’Donnell on Morning Joe defending teachers from claims that they should be able to reach every single child by pointing to The Jersey Shore and claiming that there is not a teacher in America who could have reached any of them.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:03 am
@morzer: yeah, pick on the agreements and leave the sheer definitions out of it. absolument. pensez aux enfants.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:06 am
@scav: Sigh. Give me Japanese which has no genders or noun-verb agreement issues. Then again you can decline adjectives and adverbs, and there’s the amazingly complex writing system…
September 28th, 2010 at 2:08 am
@scav:
Hitting the bottle late at night, comrade?
September 28th, 2010 at 2:32 am
@Yutsano:
Complex? Japanese? Pah! Chinese crushes Japanese with ease! After all, once you get past the jouyou kanji, all you have is two fairly straightforward syllabaries. Chinese, on the other hand, has tens of thousands of hanzi!
September 28th, 2010 at 2:34 am
@Yutsano: mumbling and eliding is my preferred method of managing agreement in French. that combined with a dash of the l’arrogance nationale avec élan usually carries the day. A solid mumble can manage a lot of verb conjugations too, heureusement.
Although, now that I think of it with great attention, your foutre-ing was personal and intimate while your prier-ing was collective (I’m assuming not formal, certainly not after the action), which makes me suspect an orgy — so I don’t know why anyone was complaining.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:35 am
@morzer: malheureusement, non.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Can’t emphasize this point enough:
If the GOP takes the House but not the Senate, then whomever is named Speaker becomes the most important Republican in America.
That’s why we need to start pushing the idea out there that the Constitution in no way limits the Speaker’s Chair to a member of Congress. Anyone can be Speaker. Including Sarah Palin.
Think about it. Speaker Palin. Speaker Beck. Hell, Speaker Gingrich.
The potential is huuuuuuuge. But it starts with causing the rank and file to refudiate Boehner.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:38 am
@asiangrrlMN:
Most definitely true. From the Wiki (among other sources):
The formal practice of doing this kind of thing was abolished by Pope Innocent XII in 1692.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:45 am
@morzer: ah, you were trapped in the hermaphroditism of the mon/ma cheri(e) while I wandered lonely as a cloud amidst the foutre/feux and the prier/prix. C’est bien trop compliqué pour si tard ou même si tôt et surtout sans alcool. m’en vais faire dodo.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:58 am
@scav:
No. Just asking for basic grammatical correctness. Not trapped.
September 28th, 2010 at 3:02 am
@morzer: Trapped, I say! Good to see you back, you big lug.
@Martin: The latter doesn’t surprise me at all.
@Yutsano: Je ne suis pas un gratui! (There. I mixed French and Thai).
September 28th, 2010 at 4:42 am
@Brachiator: Goddamn. I learn something new every day. Thanks!
September 28th, 2010 at 4:50 am
@Jim, Foolish LIteralist:
Darn liberal media!
September 28th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Sorry folks, but there doesn’t seem to be much meat to this story. Mike Stark has been pushing it, but he doesn’t seem to have any actual evidence to back it up.
‘Buzzing’ does not a news story make.
September 28th, 2010 at 6:47 am
If he’s banging a lobbyist, it matters.
September 28th, 2010 at 7:32 am
Are we sure that Boehner didn’t release the rumor to stop discussion about his other life. Republicans forgive affairs of the heart with the opposite sex but not the same sex.
September 28th, 2010 at 7:43 am
@rikyrah: Why not and why not now? Just asking.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:01 am
I’m not one for praying, but please let this be true! And please make sure the NYT names names this time around, so they don’t get blasted like they did with the McCain affair.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:22 am
@Chris G.:
Is her name Veruca Salt?
September 28th, 2010 at 8:53 am
He reminds me of Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet.
Extramarital affairs are really nobody’s business but the folks involved.
Extramarital affairs with lobbyists are a public matter.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:59 am
So I guess nobody read the story. This guy Stark makes up an allegation, confronts the right wing politico with it, then the allegation becomes the story. That’s utterly sleazy, libelous, and immoral and he’s doing it to Boehner.
I like it.
Where can we send Stark a donation?
September 28th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Maybe the lobbyist story is a red herring plant. If there’s something worst threatening to come out – so to speak – then a garden variety dalliance with a lobbyist could cover it up. Start a little fire to stop a big one.
September 28th, 2010 at 9:36 am
worse, not worst. Than, not then. I should never type before my coffee.
September 28th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Can I just say this thread title is pure platinum?
September 28th, 2010 at 10:36 am
“Best. Title. EVAH!”
He resisted “Boehner Boned Her”. Which was a remarkable act of will.
September 28th, 2010 at 10:53 am
@The Dangerman:
Say that 3 times fast, folks. LOL
September 28th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
@AxelFoley: That has the makings of a dandy limerick.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
I’d also put my money on Pence or someone else strongly connected to the Tea Party/Family Values mobs to be behind this. Boehner is not the beloved of the crazies and with House control looking imminent, the crazies aren’t going to sit still for not having the top perch to direct their vile agenda from. Spend some time on RedState—neither Boehner or Cantor are acceptable to the TPers and the fundies don’t trust them either. My money says this is the opening shot in clearing the way for Pence.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:32 pm