Breaking: John Boehner Sex Scandal!!!

[Walter Ego]

Liberal blogger Mike Stark was on this story last September (http://www.starkreports.com/2010/09/23/560/)but now it's breaking in the mainstream press. (Yeah, I know it's the National Inquirer (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_boehner_house_speaker_sex_scandal_two_women/celebrity/70110)but the New York Times is working on it too.)

Not just one but two (count 'um, two!) babes, neither of whom is his wife. The Tan Man sure knows how to spread the love around!

New Speaker of the House JOHN BOEHNER is embroiled in a bombshell sex scandal - involving at least two different women, The ENQUIRER has learned!

Capitol Hill insiders and political bloggers have been buzzing about an upcoming New York Times probe - detailing an alleged affair that the 61-year-old married father of two had with pretty Washington lobbyist LISBETH LYONS.

And an ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered a bedroom encounter that Boehner - second in line of succession to the presidency - allegedly had with LEIGH LaMORA, a 46-year-old former press secretary to ex-Colorado Congressman JOEL HEFLEY.

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[A Laughing Baby]

Dude. It's the enquirer. I don't care if they say the NYT is working on a story, it's not an actual newsworthy story until something with more credibility than the National Enquirer prints it.

[Lisa Simpson]

They got John Edwards sex scandal right.

[A Laughing Baby]

They got John Edwards sex scandal right.

They got a whole hell of a lot more than that wrong.

[A Laughing Baby]

For example, last year, did we have a thread called:

Breaking: Michael Jackson--Muslim Convert!!!!

[deepatrax]

I'm still waiting on the Enquirer to prove this one:

"Enquirer: Obama Cheated With Aide"

http://www.newser.com/story/87520/enquirer-obama-cheated-with-aide.html

[A Laughing Baby]

Exactly. For once, deepatrax and I agree.

[steve s]

They got John Edwards sex scandal right.

Throw enough darts at a dart board...

Steve S

[leftysergeant]

Given that the orange-tinted freak is unethical, alcohol-dependent, arrogant and malicious, I cannot so easily dismiss this allegation.

[deepatrax]

Given that the orange-tinted freak is unethical, alcohol-dependent, arrogant and malicious, I cannot so easily dismiss this allegation.

Snookie??

[Gord_in_Toronto]

John Boner? Snicker. :eye-poppi

[HumanityBlues]

I care more about is drinking than I do whether he cheats on his wife or not.

[BenBurch]

Stark was on this before N.E. - which says there may be something to it.

If the NYT then finds something there, he's history.

[Ryokan]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?

[DavidJames]

1. I really would prefer elected official's private lives be private. An exception could be when such private actions are in direct conflict with their public proclamations.
2. At some point will a Republican ever respond to an argument with something other then a Tu Quoque

[Thunder]

Bill Clinton had affair with Martian and woman from Venus!!!

www.inquirer.com/billlovesmartian (http://www.inquirer.com/billlovesmartian)

[Meadmaker]

And we should care.....because?

[Spindrift]

Bill Clinton had affair with Martian and woman from Venus!!!

www.inquirer.com/billlovesmartian (http://www.inquirer.com/billlovesmartian)

I certainly hope she's better looking than the Earth women he dallied with.

[nvidiot]

I think this kind of infidelity only annoys the public when they run on "family values" kind of platforms. It's not the behaviour itself, it's the hypocracy.

[tyr_13]

Boehner ran on a family values platform?

[Thunder]

well, if this is indeed true, it will be a big story.

but of course, if this was about Obama and not a white Republican, surely the Tea-Baggers and other right-wing nut jobs wouldn't say a thing about this story, as it has nothing to do with politics.

;)

[tyr_13]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?

People in the US also like soap operas (daytime or primetime) and 'reality' tv. We obsess over everyone's personal life for various silly reasons.

[leftysergeant]

Hello? The problem is not that the sorry sack of compost cheated on his wife. (Excuse me if I have a hard time feeling any sympathy toward a woman who would stay married to that worthless slug.) What I want to know is what kind of deals Agent Orange cut with the lobbyist bimbo in exchamge for getting his ashes hauled. I can't imagine his having agreed to anything that is good for the American people, seeing as how everything the creep has signed off on lately has been pure BS.

[Undesired Walrus]

Didn't the enquirer announce that Obama had lung cancer?

[Sword_Of_Truth]

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The New York Times has no credibility on this either. They lost it in their botched attempt to trap John McCain in a bogus sex scandal during the 2008 presidential campaign.

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Given that the orange-tinted freak is unethical, alcohol-dependent, arrogant and malicious, I cannot so easily dismiss this allegation.
Snookie??

Deepatrax wins the thread. :D

[Whiplash]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives?



I don't think many of them really do care. But peoples political enemies care, and always make the biggest deal they can out of the issue. It's sad.

[leftysergeant]

I wouldn't, personally, give a rat's if he had a different hooker up to his room every night.

I do think it is our business when he boinks a lobbiest in exchange for God knows what favor to her employers.

America's future should not hang by his danglies.

[BenBurch]

I wouldn't, personally, give a rat's if he had a different hooker up to his room every night.

...

As long as he paid her well and used a rubber.

[Cleon]

John Boehner? Really? Boehner?

There's a difference here between this and the Edwards story - Edwards getting chicks on the side was believable. Million-dollar smile, thousand-dollar haircut, charisma out the wazoo - I'm sure he had chicks throwing themselves at him. John Boehner is a chain-smoking orange old man who cries after sex*.

So yeah, I'm going to have to invoke the 24-hour rule on this one. Perhaps 48. Or even 72.




* No, I don't have any direct evidence, but do you really doubt it?

[Puppycow]

If his mistress is a lobbyist, that makes the scandal more than just prurient interest.

It would also explain what she's getting out of the relationship.

[Monketey Ghost]

Don't that bring some purty pictures to the mind.

*shivers, spits*

[ANTPogo]

Snookie??

Okay, that was funny.

[eeyore1954]

I prefer to get my news scoops from a more reliable source the Weekly World News.
GRAND CANYON, AZ – A giant Mexican tarantula was seen terrorizing tourists at the Grand Canyon!
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/28424/giant-tarantula/


David James 2. At some point will a Republican ever respond to an argument with something other then a Tu Quoque

Democrats use Tu Quoques too. I think that would be a double.

Although in this case I think it was not a Tu Quoque it was an effective point demonstating that the source is not reliable.

[JoeTheJuggler]

I care more about is drinking than I do whether he cheats on his wife or not.

And I care more about the liberties he takes with the truth (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/07/john-boehner/boehner-says-democrats-health-care-plan-would-lead/) with regard to legislation before Congress than I do about either his drinking or his sex life.

[DavidJames]

Although in this case I think it was not a Tu Quoque it was an effective point demonstating that the source is not reliable.:( - I apologize for my knee jerk reaction. I failed to take the "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once and awhile" idiom into account.

[varwoche]

Hello? The problem is not that the sorry sack of compost cheated on his wife. (Excuse me if I have a hard time feeling any sympathy toward a woman who would stay married to that worthless slug.) What I want to know is what kind of deals Agent Orange cut with the lobbyist bimbo in exchamge for getting his ashes hauled. I can't imagine his having agreed to anything that is good for the American people, seeing as how everything the creep has signed off on lately has been pure BS. For crying out loud. If only those of us who generally agree with you on the big picture didn't have to deal your asinine posts being thrown back in our faces.

[Region Rat]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?

It only matters if it is a republican, because republicans all run on family values, and are generally conservative and publically prudish. Having an affair shows what hypocrites they are, which is much worse than having sex with someone they are not married to. Democrats, on the other hand, can have all the affairs they want, because they don't run on family values, and being liberal, they don't care what others do with their free time.

Anyway, that's what it seems like to me.

[Regnad Kcin]

John Boehner? Really? Boehner?

There's a difference here between this and the Edwards story - Edwards getting chicks on the side was believable. Million-dollar smile, thousand-dollar haircut, charisma out the wazoo - I'm sure he had chicks throwing themselves at him. John Boehner is a chain-smoking orange old man who cries after sex*.Power.

[MarkCorrigan]

It only matters if it is a republican, because republicans all run on family values, and are generally conservative and publically prudish. Having an affair shows what hypocrites they are, which is much worse than having sex with someone they are not married to. Democrats, on the other hand, can have all the affairs they want, because they don't run on family values, and being liberal, they don't care what others do with their free time.

Anyway, that's what it seems like to me.

Which is why John Edwards continues to have an astoudingly popular political career and came so close to winning the Dem Presidential nomination ahead of Oba....oh wait.

Seriously, your country treats it's politicians, "Left" and Right like crap. It really does. As much as I really can't stand Boehner, this isn't an issue. Hell, that he has ONE woman interested in him is impressive, given that he probably glows in the dark. I don't like or condone cheating, but it's his life to screw up, and unless he's an out and out "family values" politician, this matters about as much as whether he wears white socks or black.

[tyr_13]

The only importance I can see here is if he was giving special favors to a lobbyist. That would be true if the special favors were because of money, sex, or trading over a level 50 Raichu.

Still, did Boehner run on a family values platform? I'm not going to just assume that he did because he's a conservative Republican.

[hgc]

Oh, for crying out loud. Sen. David Vitter was just reelected. He was embroiled with prostitutes in both Washington and back home in Louisiana. It was revealed that he has a friggin' diaper fetish! Sen. John Ensign, poised to run for reelection next year, had an affair with the wife of his top staffer and best friend, she also being on staff. His congressional roommates in the C Street House (a religious enclave) had to run an intervention and force him to write and mail a letter ostensibly breaking off the affair. The senator's parents paid a large sum of cash to the cuckold.

I don't buy into the Boehner story, he deserving the benefit of the doubt until the evidence becomes more self-evident. But there's a path to survival for some sexual miscreants, as long as teh gay isn't involved.

[I Am The Scum]

Democrats use Tu Quoques too.

I hope this was meant to be ironic.

... she also being on staff.

I'll say.

[Snide]

Okay, that was funny.Yes it was; props to deepatrax.

Although, I did have to look up Snookie to get it. I say that proudly, now that I've figured it out. :)

[eeyore1954]

Originally Posted by eeyore1954
Democrats use Tu Quoques too.
I hope this was meant to be ironic.



Yeah thats why I called it a double Tu Quoque and a more important question is Tu Quoque supposed to be always capitlized. My shift key finger is developing palsy.

[tyr_13]

Originally Posted by eeyore1954
Democrats use Tu Quoques too.


Yeah thats why I called it a double Tu Quoque and a more important question is Tu Quoque supposed to be always capitlized. My shift key finger is developing palsy.

As the title of a fallacy, yes. If you were to just say, "tu quoque," to mean it literally, than no.

[leftysergeant]

It only matters if it is a republican, because republicans all run on family values, and are generally conservative and publically prudish.

It is fun, when some doofus lectures us on morality and propriety, to rub his nose in the mess he leaves on the carpet.

Having an affair shows what hypocrites they are, which is much worse than having sex with someone they are not married to.

It doesn't matter to me whose fuzzy he bumps as long as the act is consensual and he does not pay for it out of MY pocket. Given that one of the women he most probably did is a lobbyist, you can pretty well bet that it was in exchange for some concessions he had no right to trade. If, as I have heard alleged, he was also doing staffers, he is very likely abusing his authority. I douybt that a lot of women have a particular ambition to go to DC to get their freak on with a married man with no class. Edwards and Clinton were both considered major stud muffins. Monica clearly wanted Clinton before she got there. We thought it was icky, but, as long as Hillary was cool with it....malesh! But when Edwards turned out to be so totally callous toward his dying wife we turned our backs on him. And when he became abusive, none of us had a kind word left for him. He had sunk so far into the slime that Newt could stand on his shoulders.

Democrats, on the other hand, can have all the affairs they want, because they don't run on family values, and being liberal, they don't care what others do with their free time.

Utter bull flops. Our rule in such things is simple. "Imprimus non nocere."

The Coppertone Boy has decidedly crossed that line somewhere.

[Mooseman]

I find it haed to believe, but it's probably true. Always expect the worst out of Washington.

[TraneWreck]

Hopefully The Enquirer will run an story about how he escaped the chocolate factory. I'm curious to hear how he and Snookie managed to elude Wonka the slavemaster.

[Spindrift]

Hopefully The Enquirer will run an story about how he escaped the chocolate factory. I'm curious to hear how he and Snookie managed to elude Wonka the slavemaster.

If they re-did the movie Elf with Oompah-Loompahs, Boehner would definitely get the Will Ferrell part.

[Beanbag]

You assume that just because he slept with a lobbyist that he "came over" to her way of thinking?

A quote I've heard attributed to Lyndon Johnson (who above all else was the consumate politician) goes to the effect: "If you can't drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women, and then vote against them the next day, you don't belong in the game."

Beanbag

[tyr_13]

You assume that just because he slept with a lobbyist that he "came over" to her way of thinking?

A quote I've heard attributed to Lyndon Johnson (who above all else was the consumate politician) goes to the effect: "If you can't drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women, and then vote against them the next day, you don't belong in the game."

Beanbag

Who is assuming that?

[Bob Blaylock]

For crying out loud. If only those of us who generally agree with you on the big picture didn't have to deal your asinine posts being thrown back in our faces.


Being one of those who probably disagrees with you on almost any major matter of public policy, I know much better than to assume that he speaks for you, or or most of those on your side of the debate. I wouldn't assume that he speaks for anyone outside of the most extreme Loughner-wannabe fringes. I rather expect that those of you into the more mainstream left find him to be about as scary, creepy, and disturbing as those of us on the right do. Perhaps more so because of the fear, that you just expressed, that some will think that he, in any way, represents your side of the political aisle.

[leftysergeant]

You assume that just because he slept with a lobbyist that he "came over" to her way of thinking?

It would be foolish to assume that a reprobate like Boner would not be influenced.

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Being one of those who probably disagrees with you on almost any major matter of public policy, I know much better than to assume that he speaks for you, or or most of those on your side of the debate. I wouldn't assume that he speaks for anyone outside of the most extreme Loughner-wannabe fringes.

That's an unfair and inaccurate comparison.

He's closer to John Patrick Bedell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pentagon_shooting) than he is to Jared Loughner. ;)

[Darth Rotor]

You assume that just because he slept with a lobbyist that he "came over" to her way of thinking?

A quote I've heard attributed to Lyndon Johnson (who above all else was the consumate politician) goes to the effect: "If you can't drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women, and then vote against them the next day, you don't belong in the game."

Beanbag

I like the LBJ quote, but I don't get the idea that this story is about the Orange Bone sleeping with one of "their" women. If there is any merit to this, sleeping with a lobbyist is unlikely to be a political rivals' woman and more likely to be someone trying to get to him from a different angle ... maybe a 69 degree angle.

[WildCat]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?
Because this jackass leads the party of "family values sanctity of marriage" bible-thumping morality preachers in the House.

[A Laughing Baby]

I like the LBJ quote, but I don't get the idea that this story is about the Orange Bone sleeping with one of "their" women. If there is any merit to this, sleeping with a lobbyist is unlikely to be a political rivals' woman and more likely to be someone trying to get to him from a different angle ... maybe a 69 degree angle.

The LBJ quote is pretty clearly about lobbyists, not your political rivals. Why would your political rival give you all those things? Why would you be expected to vote for your political rivals goal (which is why voting against them would take strength of will)?

[BenBurch]

Because this jackass leads the party of "family values sanctity of marriage" bible-thumping morality preachers in the House.

That's about it.

[DaN K. StAnLeY]

I have a Boehner,
sometimes called a "blue veiner"
my ink has run dry.

-dan

[Skeptic Ginger]

Because this jackass leads the party of "family values sanctity of marriage" bible-thumping morality preachers in the House.
While it remains to be seen if the story is a total fabrication or not, the issue isn't about hypocritical infidelity:

From the Daily Kos before the story was printed yesterday. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/1/940574/-Will-Boehners-Speakership-be-shortest-ever)
I wonder how well Boehner's zero-tolerance pledge regarding corruption will hold up when it comes out that several hundred paper-making jobs were lost in his district and he refused to do anything about it at the same time he was sleeping with a lobbyist for the printing industry that was very happy to get their cheap paper from China.

Gotta give it to Lyons though! She's one hell of a lobbyist!

[Darth Rotor]

The LBJ quote is pretty clearly about lobbyists, not your political rivals. Why would your political rival give you all those things? Why would you be expected to vote for your political rivals goal (which is why voting against them would take strength of will)?

I went back and reread it, with that in mind, and thank you for that. It can go either way, but I think your take is where it was aimed.

[fishbob]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?

Most of our politicians in soliciting our votes represent themselves as competent, upstanding, god fearing, law abiding, and trustworthy.

We care when we find out that the person we voted for is actually a drunken, sleazebag, philandering, self-serving, lying, cheating ^#**weasel.

The private life paints a picture contrary to the image we elected.

[Dorian Gray]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?Because some politicians run on family values, or preservation of marriage as pretext to ban gay marriage, or attempted to impeach Bill Clinton, or whatever, and so if they do something like this, they lose credibility. Whereas if they don't mention stuff like this, it doesn't matter as much.

[fuelair]

Why do Americans care so much about their politicians' sex lives? Shouldn't what matters be how well they govern, and let their private life be their private life?

If it gets that rectum eater out, it's important. If it gets functional politicians out, not so much. Republickers are the big pushers of family and dog and they could care less about either.

[TubbaBlubba]

Is "Boehner" pronounced "Boner" or something like "Bawner" or "Beener"?

[Sword_Of_Truth]

I think it's "Bayner".

[Puppycow]

I prefer to get my news scoops from a more reliable source the Weekly World News.

Weekly World News isn't "more reliable," it's the world's only reliable news source. :D

[BenBurch]

Weekly World News isn't "more reliable," it's the world's only reliable news source. :D

I just wish they would stop running those stories about the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. It simply doesn't exist!

[A Laughing Baby]

Is "Boehner" pronounced "Boner" or something like "Bawner" or "Beener"?

Like SoT said, it's "BAY-ner."

[eeyore1954]

I just wish they would stop running those stories about the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. It simply doesn't exist!
You probably have one, is that why you say that?

[leftysergeant]

Like SoT said, it's "BAY-ner."
when Agent Orange learns the name of the opposition party in the House, I'll sort of care what he wants us to call him.

[carlitos]

The New York Times are going to treat this rumor as seriously as they did with the John McCain rumor. Fair and balanced.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/john-boehner-affair-lisbeth-lyons_n_738007.html

Ugh. That was an old story from September. That's what I get for posting a rumor from the New York Post on a thread based on a rumor from the National Enquirer.