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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:26 PM Dec 2012

Speaker Boehner spotted 'having a good time' downing margaritas hours after WH meeting

In the midst of a grueling, final-hour push by Congress to rescue the economy from the looming fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner sought brief reprieve with an evening of margaritas and Mexican fare in Arlington, a source told Mail Online.

Dressed in a festive, bright red sweater, a cheery Boehner arrived through a side door at Guapo's in Shirlington around 7:15 p.m. Friday - about three hours after he left stone-faced from a meeting at the White House with other congressional leaders and President Obama - according to a diner who happened to arrive at the restaurant around the same time.

Accompanying Boehner to his table Friday were about six men - all security detail - who stood behind him for about 30 seconds and then sat down at a table nearby, said the diner, who works in government and said she wished to remain anonymous.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254731/Having-good-time-Boehner-goes-post-White-House-margaritas-Mexican-fare-Arlington.html

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Speaker Boehner spotted 'having a good time' downing margaritas hours after WH meeting (Original Post) n2doc Dec 2012 OP
he washed his hands of it.....one useless pol spanone Dec 2012 #1
I'll bet ARPAIO luerves Mexican fare and cheap labor, too. Earmarks in the coming immigration law?!1 UTUSN Dec 2012 #2
he can't even take his wife out for dinner Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #3
I bet boner thinks he's "guapo". Cha Dec 2012 #4
he's off by one letter ... zbdent Dec 2012 #7
Oh no you didn't, oh yes you did TexasTowelie Dec 2012 #10
.. irresistable! Cha Dec 2012 #16
Gross. nt a la izquierda Dec 2012 #13
Does Boner actually think throwing up his hands dballance Dec 2012 #5
Wow. He's drinking the hard stuff while the others with him had beer, wine & sangria. Lone_Star_Dem Dec 2012 #6
He looks like what Don Draper (Mad Men) would look like mwdem Dec 2012 #8
In related news, Speaker John Boehner's liver has checked in to the Betty Ford Clinic. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #9
"Stone faced". Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha. nt DCKit Dec 2012 #11
Why on earth does Boehner need a 6-man security detail?! MotherPetrie Dec 2012 #12
They're there to help carry him home once he gets his drunk on. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #21
He's an alcoholic sorefeet Dec 2012 #14
There were many drinker/smokers throughout history who did a hell of a good job. RagAss Dec 2012 #17
OMG! Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2012 #15
How is he "having a good time" if he's dining alone? JaneyVee Dec 2012 #18
Dining alone .... Without the assistance of lobbyists? IggleDoer Dec 2012 #19
I've heard Boehner Oasis_ Dec 2012 #20

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
2. I'll bet ARPAIO luerves Mexican fare and cheap labor, too. Earmarks in the coming immigration law?!1
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:31 PM
Dec 2012

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
3. he can't even take his wife out for dinner
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:32 PM
Dec 2012

I suppose he figures that eating Mexican gives him foreign affairs credentials

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
5. Does Boner actually think throwing up his hands
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:39 PM
Dec 2012

and saying it's the problem of the Dems in the Senate now despite the Dems in the Senate actually already passed a bill he refuses to bring to the floor is going to wash?

Sure, for the people watching FAUX news I'm sure it will go over fine. But I hope and pray that a lot of the US is waking up and sees the GOP for the obstructionist asses they are.

Budgets must be passed by the House. The House has spending authority. Not the Senate. Therefore, the HOUSE should be held responsible for coming up with a budget if they don't like the one the Senate proposed. Who is in control of the House? Oh, that would be the Republicans.

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
6. Wow. He's drinking the hard stuff while the others with him had beer, wine & sangria.
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:42 PM
Dec 2012

That's a bit telling. I wonder if he carries around a flask of tequila to "help him get through" his daily dose of bratty Teabaggers?

mwdem

(4,031 posts)
8. He looks like what Don Draper (Mad Men) would look like
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:45 PM
Dec 2012

later in life! I just realized that while actually looking at his closeup (bleech!).

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
9. In related news, Speaker John Boehner's liver has checked in to the Betty Ford Clinic.
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 08:45 PM
Dec 2012

Fearing for its life the liver has retained celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred citing irreconcilable differnces with the Speaker.

"That guy is trying to kill me", the newly separated organ was quoted as it was being prescribed a healthy diet, exercise and abstinence from alcohol.
 

MotherPetrie

(3,145 posts)
12. Why on earth does Boehner need a 6-man security detail?!
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 10:07 PM
Dec 2012

I've been to that restaurant before, hate to think I have anything in common with Orangina.

sorefeet

(1,241 posts)
14. He's an alcoholic
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 10:22 PM
Dec 2012

Between the booze and cigarettes he literally has a chemical imbalance. Anyone who drinks and smokes like him for so many years is ill and it takes several years of abstaining to get well.
Can you imagine the hangovers he has had in his life? I'm not judging the guy this is from my own experiences with the bottle. Being a funtional drunk doen't make it right.

RagAss

(13,832 posts)
17. There were many drinker/smokers throughout history who did a hell of a good job.
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 10:49 PM
Dec 2012

This clown just gives drinking a bad name.

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
15. OMG!
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 10:28 PM
Dec 2012

Just missed him by an hour and a half! Yikes! Can't imagine sitting down in Guapo's next to Boehner!

Oasis_

(254 posts)
20. I've heard Boehner
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 12:00 AM
Dec 2012

uses tanning beds quite a bit to hide the yellowish skin that's developed as a result of his drinking and smoking.

There's numerous documented instances of him breaking down and crying as we're all aware--which is one of the most annoying drunks to be around or try and socialize with.



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