Drudge Sirens--Whistles, Fog Horns and Bugle Calls

I am shocked--just shocked that the lamestream media pushing their radical agenda would attack a family values man like the Tan Man--John Boehner--suggesting he is having an affair. This is just aimed at getting the attention away from the Democrats "job-killing agenda". Actually House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) suggests that members of the Republican leadership are gunning for Boehner and are engaged in political cannbalism.

Discontent with Boehner has been bubbling over the past year. Morning Joe Scarborough mentioned in air that Boehner was lazy and a drunk. Unnamed aides claimed he shouldn't be allowed on the floor after 3pm. And the Democrats have made great fun out of Boehner's amazing 199 golf dates over the past year. Other rumors concern Boehner basically "dealing" with a myriad of ethics problems with fellow Republicans privately. He is said to have warned several "family values Christian" married congressmen, who have yet to be named, away from dalliances with women lobbyists.

But now his hopes and dreams may be de-railed as the New York Times is preparing a piece to expose his affair with a lobbyist named Lisbeth Lyons. Mark Stark ,an activist and blogger, intercepted Boehner yesterday after the Pledge was unveiled and asked him about it. Asked later, Lyons denied the allegations to Stark. Lisbeth Lyons is the Vice President of Government Affairs for the Printing Industries of America. Maybe she gave Boehner a good deal on printing the Pledge to America.

The heavy drinking, chain-smoking Boehner was always the source of rumors about his partying ,especially at the Republican Party Conventions. At the Convention in New York, he was seen partying in clubs in the Village, venues that surprised the younger congressional staffers.

The innoculation article today was arranged with Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which quoted Lisbeth's outrage at how highly insulting this was to a "female political professional". Boehner's spokesman blamed the Democratic allies in the liberal media for fabricating the charges.

Just from experience, the charges are very likely leaked by other Republicans in this internecine warfare. I imagine Boehner will consult John McCain how to use lawyers to get the Times' to water the charges. You'll recall the Times strongly hinted in an article that read as if it had been parsed by lawyers that John McCain was having an affair with a Cindy McCain look-alike living here in Old Town Alexandria. The woman disappeared from the scene and has not been heard in public since. But to tame the New York Times, McCain used a platoon of lawyers to squelch it.

Is any of this true? Who knows but it would not surprise me because alot of these guys act as if they are beyond the law, ethics or morality. All he has to do is to publicly say that "he's born again" and Bingo, everything's fine.

One little problem--It was Boehner that told Mark Souder, "Mr. Abstinence", that he would have to resign. Strangely, Souder's affair was glossed over by the Concerned Women of American and the Focus on the Family crowd because Mark had been fighting the good fight. If this turns out to be true, the Christianists will be after Boehner's scalp.

While this could be good news for the Democrats, if it doesn't prevent a Republican take-over in the House it actually could be bad. The reason for this is that Republican House leadership would fall more to the Pence types and middle-aged firebrands, who would accelerate investigations into the Obama Administration and move toward impeachment hearings fueled by the wingnuts.

Nice way James Clyburn described the Republican pledge as "the Plague."

Paul Krugman wrote his take on the Republican plan called "Downhill With the G.O.P" It's worth a read.