A step forward...of a sort

Congressman's $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress

West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved Mahoney and his campaign committee.

That Congressman he replaced.....avowed page banger Mark "How's my favorite young stud doing" Foley. Chin up West Palm Beach, you've sort of moved forward. He's paying off legal, of age females, not trying to bang underage teen boys. Hold your head high. Maybe next election you can elect a guy who doesn't have to pay off mouthy mistresses. Shit, maybe you can find one who is happy nailing his own wife.

Actually, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Rhyming even more with "Loner"

Patrick O'Conner and John Bresnahan over at Politico are suggesting that House Republican leader and feckless shitheel, John Boehner, might have cost himself his leadership post by so fervently backing that smoldering pile of legislative rubble formerly known as "The Bailout."

The Ohio Republican went all in for the $700 billion economic rescue package. But when the gavel came down on the vote Monday, 133 of Boehner’s 199 Republicans had gone the other way.

The bruising tally — coming on the heels of a weeklong revolt — had some GOP members asking privately whether Boehner can hold on to his leadership post.

I suppose that if this is the end for Boehner, at least he can take solace in the fact that he wasn't forced to resign in the face of pending indictment for violating campaign finance law like his predecessor. Not for lack of trying, though, what with the tobacco money and the plausible deniability tactic with page-toucher Mark Foley. But enough of that. Let's look further down the article at some of the real internal drama:

Another Boehner ally, Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter of Michigan, physically turned his back on the leader during a tense closed-door GOP conference meeting Sunday night.

Thaddeus G. McCotter. Seriously, what kind of sadist would saddle their own child with such a ridiculous name?