In honestly, I’m not horribly offended if this is true. I’m pretty sure Boehner would be on the wrong side of any possible issue, regardless of who is toking the Little Orphan Orange Otterpop.
Thanks. When I saw who she lobbies for, my first thought was “this is probably the only way to improve newspaper and book sales.” But there are some significant issues here and you don’t want Congressional leaders to be sleeping with people who are lobbying on this stuff - even if those positions sound pretty typical for Republicans anyway.
Not trying to kick a dead horse on this. But it seems to me that the only way we can predict on how they will vote (your criteria) is by how they have voted in the past, or how they say they will vote. And if they have absolutely no moral compass, as evidenced by their complete lack of concern for those the ostensibly care most about (their family) how do you think you’ll be able to predict how they’ll vote? They’ll lie on the stump, and they’ll sell out to the highest bidder.
We bitch that the country is broken, that Congress is broken, and then don’t care that our Congressmen are scum bags. There is a relationship.
I have a problem with anyone, including politicians, having affairs because it’s wrong. Period. So Republicans nor Democrats will get a pass on that in my book.
The issue for me is hypocrisy. Republicans put themselves out there as the party of morality, yet, at this point, whenever I hear of a politician embroiled in a sex scandal it is usually a Republican, and I expect it to be, and am no longer surprised.
Did Boehner lean on Rep. Christopher Lee to retire after his recent Craig’s List flirtation?
From Faux News, via post #17:
Cheating on your wife is a shitty thing to do, but you almost have to admire the balls and resourceful sliminess of the kind of guy who’d have a secret second family. I don’t know where these jerkoffs find the time. It does make infidelity and compromised ethics look like small potatoes.
How do meet the Real People? Do they? I have never met anyone more than one degree from a government job in D.C.
Why? It is possible that an affair does not involve lying and cheating. If that is so, who am I to judge the marraige?
If it was Jane Nobody, I don’t really care if John bones her or not. I think it being a lobbyist holds some conflict of interest issues that probably warrants him stepping down as Speaker.
We’ll know if this story has real legs when Fox starts to identify him with the graphic John Boehner (D-OH)
There was a thread a long time ago about men caught with hidden second families, and it was pretty crazy how many Dopers knew someone who had tried to pull it off. For something that seems a) really risky and b) not very much fun, its apparently much more common then I’d expect.
What? No one has posted the name of the second possible woman: Leigh Lamora?
Job security for the comedy writers.
That does not apply here. Boehner does not have a second family, but a second set of morals. Her has a set he proudly proclaims as he speaks to constituents and fellow right wingers. He lives by another.
I was responding to Marley’s aside regarding Vito Fossella, who did in fact have a second family.
“Anyone heard of the possible sex scandal brewing for John Boehner?”
No but I hope it’s true.
Somehow I’m doubting the veracity of this story. I think Boehner is pretty much a douche-bag but I don’t think he’s an idiot. If he’s fucking around on his wife, I don’t think he could dredge up enough balls to make Chris Lee resign for *wanting *to fuck around on his wife. Unless his whole point was to make Chris Lee resign for *getting caught *wanting to fuck around on his wife.
On the other hand, if it does turn out to be true … I will be throroughly entertained.
I hope it’s true and I hope he resigns. Actually, I don’t care if it’s true, I just want him and his ilk (the over-religious evangelical types) out of Congress. But most of all I hope they pass a mollyfocking Continuing Resolution before the feces hit the fan.
Well, this is Great Debates, so bring a cite or drop it. You can “strongly suspect” all you want in IMHO, but here we deal with facts. Not to mention that his skin tone has zero to do with the thread topic anyway.
I’m way over 50+ and I don’t remember it. Of course, that could be due to the fact that I’m way over 50+.
Here’s the closing song at about the 7:00 mark. It was a kids’ game show.