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Some of you are so amusing. Obama saved us from a Depression now? The fact that there are still tons of people out of work doesnt bother you in the least.

 

[Dick Tuck]

I guess you shouldn't have become the town drunk, then.

Lol! Better than being a politician, those guys drink me under the table.

John Boehner begs GOP congressmen to stop partying with pretty lady lobbyists

The House minority leader tells his members it's not appropriate to attend after-hours lobbyist parties



The New York Post’s “Page Six” reported last week that Minority Leader John Boehner is telling GOP congressmen to please stop getting drunk with lobbyists — especially young, pretty, female lobbyists — because, let’s face it, it just doesn’t look good. “Page Six” had spotted Rep. Lee Terry “in close conversation with a comely lobbyist at the Capitol Hill Club in DC.” “Why did you get me so drunk?” Terry is reported to have said (among other things) to the “giggling woman.”

Lobbyist Glenn LeMunyon, a former Tom DeLay appropriations staffer, holds well-attended fundraisers and “after-hours parties” at his Capitol Hill row house. Missouri Republican Sam Graves was photographed dining at D.C.’s finest beer bar, Brickskeller, with a blond woman who turned out to be a lobbyist for the Patriot Group, where she “represents health care systems, financial institutions, utilities, technologists, tort reform coalitions, oil and gas interests, and human rights causes at the state and federal level.”

Roll Call advances the story today with a piece on how Boehner “has been working behind the scenes to address the issue for at least the past year and a half.”

What is “the issue”? According to Boehner, the problem is the appearance of impropriety. And Roll Call names names:

Several Republican lobbyists said the Terry incident is part of a larger concern involving a group of House Republicans and lobbyists, including Glenn LeMunyon of the LeMunyon Group, who regularly party with female lobbyists.

“On the Hill, there’s a lot of older men that just go home when they’re done with votes,” said the longtime Capitol Hill Club member who overheard Terry’s remark. “Then you have a smaller group that likes to knock back a few and have a good time.”

Among them are GOP Reps. Bill Shuster (Pa.), Sam Graves (Mo.), Chris Lee (N.Y.) and Duncan Hunter (Calif.), several sources have confirmed. None of the Members have been accused of any improprieties.
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Being a congressman is like being in college, basically — you’re far from home with no parents, and a lot of free time — so obviously members enjoy going out and getting drunk and “hooking up,” like the kids do.


*snip*

Perhaps Boehner should have stayed at the God house with David Vitter.

 

[Synthaholic]

Lol! Better than being a politician, those guys drink me under the table.

John Boehner begs GOP congressmen to stop partying with pretty lady lobbyists

The House minority leader tells his members it's not appropriate to attend after-hours lobbyist parties



The New York Post’s “Page Six” reported last week that Minority Leader John Boehner is telling GOP congressmen to please stop getting drunk with lobbyists — especially young, pretty, female lobbyists — because, let’s face it, it just doesn’t look good. “Page Six” had spotted Rep. Lee Terry “in close conversation with a comely lobbyist at the Capitol Hill Club in DC.” “Why did you get me so drunk?” Terry is reported to have said (among other things) to the “giggling woman.”

Lobbyist Glenn LeMunyon, a former Tom DeLay appropriations staffer, holds well-attended fundraisers and “after-hours parties” at his Capitol Hill row house. Missouri Republican Sam Graves was photographed dining at D.C.’s finest beer bar, Brickskeller, with a blond woman who turned out to be a lobbyist for the Patriot Group, where she “represents health care systems, financial institutions, utilities, technologists, tort reform coalitions, oil and gas interests, and human rights causes at the state and federal level.”

Roll Call advances the story today with a piece on how Boehner “has been working behind the scenes to address the issue for at least the past year and a half.”

What is “the issue”? According to Boehner, the problem is the appearance of impropriety. And Roll Call names names:

Several Republican lobbyists said the Terry incident is part of a larger concern involving a group of House Republicans and lobbyists, including Glenn LeMunyon of the LeMunyon Group, who regularly party with female lobbyists.

“On the Hill, there’s a lot of older men that just go home when they’re done with votes,” said the longtime Capitol Hill Club member who overheard Terry’s remark. “Then you have a smaller group that likes to knock back a few and have a good time.”

Among them are GOP Reps. Bill Shuster (Pa.), Sam Graves (Mo.), Chris Lee (N.Y.) and Duncan Hunter (Calif.), several sources have confirmed. None of the Members have been accused of any improprieties.
​

Being a congressman is like being in college, basically — you’re far from home with no parents, and a lot of free time — so obviously members enjoy going out and getting drunk and “hooking up,” like the kids do.


*snip*

Perhaps Boehner should have stayed at the God house with David Vitter.

Yeah - it's stocked with prostitutes AND diapers!

 

[Dick Tuck]

Some of you are so amusing. Obama saved us from a Depression now? The fact that there are still tons of people out of work doesnt bother you in the least.

Sure did. Did it all by protecting us taxpayers too. He converted preferred shares that Bush tried to use bail out banking, with voting stock so we the people would have some say on how the banks got their shit together.

Too bad Obama isn't a socialist. He could have easily let everything fail and then totally centralize economic control.