Sex Scandal Might Bring Down John Boehner - But he didn't send any racy pictures so it's okay!

[devilgrrl]

Boehner has been involved in extramarital affairs with at least two women, according to a new report in the National Enquirer. We don’t normally cite supermarket tabloids as primary source material. But the Enquirer was first to write about the John Edwards’ infidelity, and the newspaper proved to be right on target. And back in the early ’90s, the mainstream press picked up on the Bill Clinton/Gennifer Flowers story after it broke in a tabloid.

In Boehner’s case, the Enquirer gets into specifics–and that gives the story a ring of truth:

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.

more: http://my.firedoglake.com/rogershuler/2011/02/08/sex-scandal-might-bring-down-john-boehner/

[seabeyond]

1. may even bump weiner off the news. nt

[indepat]

23. Yeah, this story will likely really have

legs. :patriot:

[seabeyond]

24. i heard this in the past. i read down further and i see from Feb. lol. so, i guess not.

ah well

[fasttense]

43. I'M Confused ???

Why is it when a Republi-CON is caught in a sex scandal it is NO BIG DEAL, or it's HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND IRRELEVANT, but when it is a Democrat, oh my goodness the sky is falling and he has to resign for the good of the congress. You can impeach a Democratic President, or force a congressman like Weiner out for breaking NO LAWS but a republi-CON well that's OK. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[blackspade]

56. Like a third leg?

:rofl:

[blackbart99]

75. ha ha...

[elleng]

58. Good to see it. How sick is this? Might even derail

our 'special relationship' w Brits, and alliances w NATO nations; they don't want such with those like us w such shallow/inconsequential values, mebbe.

HATE to read all this; glad I'm hitting the road today.

:eyes: :crazy:

[joshcryer]

37. 3rd in line to the Presidency? Yes, it's a big deal. Will the media pounce? Doubtful.

[blackbart99]

77. Sorry to nitpik but it's second in line not third...

You have the President,

1ST in line is the V.P.

2nd in line is the Speaker.

I apologize for nit picking.:hide: :yoiks:

[idrahaje]

84. More Republicans have been caught in sex scandals than Democrats

yet Democrats punish themselves worse. I have no idea what Reid and Nancy are thinking. Albeit the Republicans tend to take cyanide (figure of speech) compared to the Dems standing on a live grenade.

Gotta go for the laugh go from a Weiner to a Boner. oh how fun...

[1monster]

94. Naw. Have you forgotten? IOKIYAR

[HardWorkingDem]

2. Hm....wonder if CNN will report this....

and while doing so keep repeating it has not been confirmed, but still repeat it (just like before Weiner came clean).

[JoePhilly]

3. This is EASY ... ask him if it happened. If he says NO ... and ...

we learn he is LYING ... he needs to resign immediately.

That's the new bar.

He can have an affair so long as we don't know about it, but if we ASK him about it, and he LIES, he has to resign.

[gratuitous]

26. Which is why they dare not, CAN NOT ask Boehner about it

The IOKIYAR rule would almost certainly break if they tried to minimize Boehner lying about an actual orange-flesh-and-blood affair (instead of just sending pixels through the ethernet).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I wonder if his weiner is orange?

Not that I want to see it... :puke:

[PCIntern]

5. Lyons is pretty; LeMora, not so much

but he's an arrant dog.

[DainBramaged]

7. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need....

:evilgrin:

[PCIntern]

9. A rolling stone gathers no hoors...

and no brown sugar...

[truebrit71]

8. Does it matter, they both (apparently) have god-awful taste in shaggins companions...

...n/t

[tnlefty]

33. Uhm, wouldn't that be an errant dog?

I don't care about the looks of the women as anyone who would have sex is Boehner isn't a woman that I'd like to meet, but repuke scandals are treated differently, eh?

[AlbertCat]

59. Lyons is pretty; LeMora, not so much

When you're as drunk as Boehner is all the time, everyone looks good.

[robertpaulsen]

6. The difference between Weiner & Boehner? Weiner embraces the correct pronunciation of his name.

Anthony Weiner on "Weiner" and "Boehner"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2EJPZEHrSc

[PassingFair]

10. Hahaha. These names sound like they're right out of central casting. Lisbeth Lyons and Leigh LaMora!

...In "Sands of the Desert"

In Technicolor.

[electropop]

74. I thought you meant Weiner and Boehner

[Chipper Chat]

83. You say Weiner, and I say Boner

You say scandal and I say skindal.
Weiner. Boner. Scandal. Skindal.
Let's take the hole thing off.

[PassingFair]

98. !

"Let's jerk the whole thing off!"

:rofl:

[Chipper Chat]

99. Ha Ha

Why didn't I think of that? It was Delovely.

[spooky3]

11. this is from Feb. 2011 - why link it now?

[devilgrrl]

14. Why not?

eom

[JuniperLea]

17. Why ask why?

Is it that hard to figure out?

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. You know the answer to that.

;)

[Overseas]

49. Discovered in February 2011 and he is still there.

So I guess all those Republican calls for his resignation back in February or March failed.

[kenfrequed]

66. WHAT?!

So we destroy our own for a sex scandal but our opposition is off limits? What the hell do you mean 'Why bring it up now?'

[Swede]

12. You're gonna make him cry!

Of course he crys when his coffee gets cold.

[barbtries]

13. i just can't wait

to see how fast the corporate media runs with this and brings him down. in the meantime, i think i'll call his office and urge him to RESIGN.

[girl gone mad]

15. Boehner boned lobbyists..

whereas Weiner sex chatted w/ admirers.

One is good, clean, wholesome DC deal-making, whereas the other is a scandal of epic proportions.

[JuniperLea]

16. I am soooo ready to move on to Boehner's weiner!

But why does the name Lisbeth Lyons ring a bell?

[PCIntern]

19. didn't she ostensibly have an affiar with McCain? n/t

[blogslut]

22. That was Vicki Iseman

Another blonde lobbyist.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

39. Maybe there IS a God and turns out he has a sense of humor.

[Fla Dem]

18. This is old news..2/8/2011.

I thought I'd heard about this before, so googled it. There was even a thread on DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=337109&mesg_id=337143

I would like to think if there was something to the story, it would have made the MSM. Afterall, that's all they seem to be interested in.

So unless there is some new juicy tidbit.............move along folks....nothing to see here.

[JuniperLea]

20. You're kidding, right?

"if there was something to the story, it would have made the MSM"

Oh, I don't think so. They barely mention Pubbie foibles... someone hasn't been paying attention.

[MadBadger]

31. They sure mentioned Larry Craig a lot

[Frisbee]

21. The Enquirer is a rag...

but on this kind of thing, they are often right.

[blackbart99]

78. It's what they do best......scandal and insinuation

[madville]

27. This was reported 10 months ago on HuffPo

They mention an upcoming NYT expose in September 2010. Did the Times ever run such a story?

[NYC Liberal]

28. Aren't there more important things to worry about than

people's sex lives?

I'm so sick of this. You can be corrupt to the core, commit all kinds of ethics violations, and even break the law — but it takes sex for people to really get outraged.

Boehner shouldn't be brought down because of this; he should be brought down for all the things he's done to damage the country.

[toddwv]

29. That's not true. There are pics of Boehner's wiener all over the internet.

It comes with a full day's worth of vitamin C.

[Raine]

34. LOL

:spray: Good one! :rofl: :thumbsup:

[bulloney]

55. Weiner's boner and Boner's weiner. I'm so CONFUSED!!!!

This almost sounds like an Abbott and Costello skit.

[rustydog]

30. Forgive me, but I gotta say it...Anyone who'd have sex with Boehner

is too lazy to masturbate.
:puke:

[dreamnightwind]

38. Or is up to something more than sex

One of the women was a lobbyist. Not sure what angles the other might have had, but illicit affairs with politicians often leave that politician vulnerable to manipulation or even extortion. No reason to assume these women were too lazy to masturbate, they were probably using the affairs to get something else.

[valerief]

51. Fabulous conclusion!

:rofl:

[justiceischeap]

32. Who cares if he screwed them, did he break any laws with the lobbyist?

That's all that matters. I hold the Repubs to the same standard as the Dems when it comes to sex scandals, unless there was law breaking involved, it's none of my damned business.

[kenfrequed]

68. Good!

Then you were against Weiner's resignation?

[justiceischeap]

90. No, not for or against his resignation really

I couldn't have cared less about the whole "sex scandal" that's business between him and his wife.

I do care about the lie, the attempted cover-up and just his shear stupidity. If any person is stupid enough to think they can put something they has the ability to create a scandal on the Internet and get away with it makes me wonder how intelligent that person is. :)

That said, I believe if his constituents wanted him to stay, then he should stay. He shouldn't be forced out unless he did something illegal. One thing I give the GOP credit for, right or wrong, is that they circle their wagons around their wounded. Dems on the other hand seem to scurry away like cock roaches when the lights come on. We need to work on that.

edit for grammar

[kenfrequed]

96. Too true

Though I find it irritating that I defended clinton so vociferously to everyone I knew that would listen, despite my frustration at him for Nafta, and gutting welfare.

But where are the blue dogs and DLC people when a progressive is attacked. Apparantly they are salivating over his seat.

[B Calm]

35. Around DU, it's only when you don't get laid that makes headlines.

[eridani]

36. Irrelevant, unless he violated the law n/t

[bluedigger]

41. So ask him where he committed the adultery.

If it was in one of the states where it is illegal - bingo!

[eridani]

97. True, but we have to know one way or another, correct? n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

40. Haven't you heard about the guy known as the Cheeto...

His Crown Royal/Viagra Cocktails increased hi libido,
And soon every day now,
You'll hear people say now.

Look out for the Cheeto,
Make way for the fool hearted CLOWN.

Hide your Granny!

[Vinca]

42. Boner won't get covered the way Weiner has because the thought

of hopping into the sack with that orange sleezeball makes a person physically ill.

[MrScorpio]

44. That's It?

No dead hookers or live boys?

Man, the Republicans are slacking

[Somawas]

45. So jokes about Boehner's boner could displace the Weiner weiner jokes?

[RoccoR5955]

46. It'll never be brought up, because IOKIYAR

They may even pin a medal on him! And these are the folks who swear on the Bibble, proclaim this stuff about marriage, and claim to be holier than thou.

They are all a bunch of hypocrites.

How long has it been known that Senator Vitter ordered hookers on the Senate floor? What ever became of him?

[spooked911]

71. exactly-- IOKIYAR rules DC

[timmymoff]

47. I just sent boehners office an e-mail

I wrote Boehner's office asking for a response on this story. I was wondering if we should send faxes to his office, maybe starting tomorrow of the story, clog the fax lines. Seem like something that might garner news attention?

[zanana1]

48. Who'd want racy pictures of John Boehner? nt

[valerief]

50. I wonder if the Free Market Media will mention this or will treat it like an antiwar protest.

You know, like it never happened.

[theFrankFactor]

52. These ssues only destroy Democrats. Got it?

[NorthCarolina]

53. Two WOMEN??? Color me surprised. nt

[Myrina]

61. ... and color them orange if they really were bangin' him ...

.... that self-tan stuff tends to rub off if one sweats. <shudder at the imagery>


:rofl:

[NorthCarolina]

65. Like this?

[blackbart99]

79. Freakin' brilliant photo...........

[liberal N proud]

54. Why is this not headline news every night?

We talk about Weiner and his weeny every night for weeks because of some pictures. Your title nailed it!!!


Double standards in our faces!

[blackspade]

57. Boehner should be asked about it.

If he lies, nail him.

Honestly I don't really care anymore than I did about Weiner, but the rethugs rank hypocracy over this issue should not be left to stand, man.

[muriel_volestrangler]

62. He was asked about it, back in September, and again in February

and he denied it.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2011/02/03/national-enquirer-boehner-had-affairs/

So, the nailing should have proceeded then. But it didn't - perhaps because he didn't post photos on the internet of it. The New York Times article, predicted by the New York Post in September didn't appear. They need something concrete, not accusations that both Boehner and Lyons denied.

[blackspade]

69. Well, to get something concrete, they would actually have to do some investigating....

[Myrina]

60. Dear Goddess, who would bone the Boehner?

:puke: :puke: :puke: My eyes! My eyes! :puke: :puke: :puke:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

86. Be thankful there aren't racy pics.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
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[ChiciB1]

63. Well, Good For The Inquirer... They GOT Edwards! Will They Work As Hard

on this ass hole? I wonder...

[nonperson]

64. Weiner was good but Boehner beats Weiner hands down

Or should that be Boehner beats his Weiner hands down?

[Rebubula]

67. Well...that settles it

If Boehner did something bad, then what Wiener did is OK.



Seriously, the gymnastics to defend the COMPLETE DUMBASSERY of what the Congressman did is mind numbing.


Both Boehner and Wiener can be assholes at the same time.


Personally, I see nothing wrong in holding our elected officials to a higher standard than the people the lie us into war, steal billions of dollars for personal gain, oppress the poor and underrepresented and are general assholes.

I will bet that there are many people that are in Wiener's district (businesspeople, state reps etc) that would love to run for Congress and will be just as progressive and passionate as Wiener - just hopefully smarter about sending out pics of his dick.


But hey - if tilting at that windmill is working out for you, who the hell am I to say you should do anything different?

[blackspade]

70. You are missing the point.

It is the hypocracy of both the DLC leadership, the Rethugs, and the media that are the issue.

Weiner lied, I get it. I would have too. Who would want their private sex life put out for public consumption?
I'm not saying that what he was doing with his sexting and pictures wasn't crass and uncool, but it was not criminal.
If we gave every politician the boot for every crass thing they did, well there would be no government.

So it comes back to the lying.
I'm not happy about it, but I totally understand it.
I would have rather he said, "Yes, I sent dirty messages to some women, so what? Fuck off."
But the media still wouldn't have let it go and it would have all unfolded the way it did anyway.
It was all about 'getting' Weiner. The Lying just gave the Media hacks (looking at you Luke Russert), d-bags like Breitbart, rethug hypocrites, and holier than thou Democrats a convienient excuse to call for his resignation.

The problem I have is that folks are hammering Weiner about 'lying' about his persoal life, when Rethugs and other political hacks lie everyday on the news and there is never anyone held to account.

But lie about your personal life and your 'untrustworthy' and 'damaged goods' and a 'betrayer of trust'....but only if you are pregressive Democrat.

[spooked911]

72. Haha, her Facebook page is already gone

they hit paydirt

UPDATE: this page still works
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=564099480

Her profile pic is weird-- what's in her hand?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150217091169481&set=a.444575074480.207086.564099480&type=1&theater

[blackbart99]

80. I'm not a facebooker...can you grab the photo and post it?

[spooked911]

100. here

[Old and In the Way]

73. Is it me or are Republicans always having affairs with lobbyists?

Seems that way...kinda brings new meaning to the term prostitute.

[BrklynLiberal]

76. Rule #1: IOIYAR Rule #2: See rule # 1

[Beavker]

81. We'll see if the MSM actually even covers it

Have to clear it with Corporate and the Kochs first.

I hope to God it's true though. It would be sweet!

[bvar22]

82. I wonder if any "Democrats" will insist that he resign?

*

[hay rick]

95. And what would the President do if he was in his position?

Waiting...

[Emelina]

85. Feaking Republican psycho-hypocrite!

So he fits this as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUIHIjB0Io&feature=related

Come on, what happened to men like Truman who was 100% loyal to his wife?

[russspeakeasy]

87. Boners and Weiners.. Anybody named Dink in congress that

we can get into the headlines... and take us away from the nasty work of creating some jobs?

[A Physicist]

88. After the Anthony Weiner affair I say

It’s time “cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”. A scalp for a scalp.

The press has buried this story before; time to crank up the gain give this story legs.

[Daphne08]

89. He's not a liberal Democrat, so the media will

yawn and move on.

[bobburgster]

91. Hope it takes off!

What's good for the "donkey", is good for the "elephant".

[bobburgster]

92. Hope it takes off.

What's good for the "donkey", is good for the "elephant".

[aggiesal]

93. Oh come on. This can't possibly be true ...

I'm all for getting rid of Boehner, but
but women have the initial's LL.

It feels like it was made up.