John Boehner is an alcoholic.

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53. I heard its so bad now he's even drinking it with tea..

House Minority Leader John Boehner has a reputation among Washington insiders for his hard-partying ways, but public suggestions that Boehner might have a drinking problems have been a rarity. That’s what makes MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s remarks about the Ohio Republican’s bar-hopping habits worthy of notice.

“I hear it on the Hill, I’m sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it’s not reported,” Scarborough told a guest from Politico on Wednesday’s Morning Joe. “But so many Republicans tell me that this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world.”

“After five o’clock, six o’clock at night he’s disengaged — at best,” Scarborough continued. “You can see him around town. He does not have, let’s say, the work hours of Newt Gingrich. … Every Republican I talk to says that John Boehner, by five or six at night, you can see him at bars.”

http://boehnerbooze.wordpress.com/about/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/06/30/msnbc-host-rep-boehner-hitting-bars-5-pm/

http://www.thefix.com/content/secret-drinking-alcoholism-media8787

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/is_john_boehner_hitting_the_bottle/