Boehner Tells His Randy Colleagues: "The Party's Over"-- Until After The Midterms

Boehner has a reputation in Washington for being a real party boy. He golfs away the days-- in 2009, he golfed 119 times (one in three days)-- and he hits the bars at night. Even friendly observers observe that he's a drunken mess on more nights than he's not. But now he's warning his GOP colleagues to button it up until after the midterms. He doesn't want any more scandals screwing up his chances to win the Speakership. No word on whether he's asked House Republican closet cases, gay blades like Patrick McHenry (NC), Adrian Smith (NE), Aaron Schock (IL), and Trent Franks (AZ), to lay off the boys until after November. But he has talked to the worst of the GOP womanizers about being seen publicly with the sexy whores the big K Street lobbying firms use to lure politicians-- bipartisanly-- into backing their clients' agendas. Yesterday's right-wing NY Post:

Some Republican congressmen have been warned to keep their distance from the female lobbyists who prowl Capitol Hill.

Sources say House Minority Leader John Boehner has told GOP congressmen who partied with lobbyists "to knock it off." His spokesperson said, "Boehner has always told all our members that they will be held to the highest ethical standards."

While there's no evidence of anything more than friendly flirtatious behavior, the lawmakers have been told to keep partying to a minimum in this midterm election year.

GOP Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska-- who's in a tough race against Democratic opponent Tom White-- was witnessed by Page Six in close conversation with a comely lobbyist at the Capitol Hill Club in DC recently.

"Why did you get me so drunk?" Terry asked the giggling woman, among other personal remarks.

When Terry realized he was sitting near a reporter, he quickly changed the topic of conversation to his three children and the struggle to pay their college tuition.

Terry was given a 100 percent rating by the Christian Coalition for his pro-family voting record.

When asked about the night at the club, Terry's spokeswoman, Lisa Ellis, said, "The congressman has no idea what you are talking about."

Meanwhile, a Kansas City blog posted photos of Missouri Rep. Sam Graves dining with a blond lobbyist from the Patriot Group at a DC restaurant. His office didn't respond to our repeated requests for comment.

And lobbyist Glenn LeMunyon's DC row house has been a hot spot for lobbyists who want to meet House members, including California's Duncan Hunter, Pennsylvania's Bill Shuster and Terry.

LeMunyon uses the house as an office during the day, a fund-raising space Some nights, and a place for congressmen to mingle after-hours with lobbyists. LeMunyon hung up on us but responded in an e-mail that his house was not being used inappropriately by anyone. Hunter's office declined to comment. Shuster's office said, "It is all false."

Boehner, who rarely spends any time in Ohio, claimed he did a telephone townhall attended by 50,000 people yesterday, an exaggeration probably by 10 times. Josh Sweigart, who covered it for the Fairfield Echo wrote "If he becomes speaker of the U.S. House, Minority Leader John Boehner told constituents today, July 21, he would do everything in his power to stop or reverse healthcare reforms, stimulus spending and cap and trade." Many of his constituents, brainwashed by Fox "News" and Hate Talk radio, were happy to see Boehner, as usual, screwing them and working to enhance the interests of the top 2% of American wealth holders. I'm sure Speaker Pelosi wasn't on Boehner's call, but she sure seems to be directly answering his do-nothing-for-anyone agenda, pointing out, for example, that "repealing the Affordable Care Act would increase the deficit by $143 billion over the next ten years and halt the creation of 4 million new small business and health care jobs…not to mention leaving 32 million Americans uninsured and continuing an unsustainable and broken health insurance system."

I hope you'll give Justin Coussoule a hand in permanently bringing Boehner's party to a close. Boehner has never had a real opponent before capable of drawing the distinctions between a servant of working families and a servant of special interests. Justin can do just that. The DCCC refuses to help-- some kind of honor among thieves thing-- but grassroots progressives are helping. Last week Blue America, People for the American Way and the AFL-CIO, helped raise the money for a billboard campaign in western Ohio that will help commuters understand what Boehner has been up to in Washington, billboards like this:




In fact, if you click billboard above, you can donate to making sure it stays up on the I-75 right near Boehner's gated golfing community in West Chester.