Camera Catches Boehner Lighting Up During South Lawn Picnic
- Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:34pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s well known that Speaker of the House John Boehner is a regular smoker. He‘s defended it in the past and said he’s not going to quit. But even knowing all that doesn‘t mean it isn’t a little odd to actually see him lighting up. And it’s even more odd to see him lighting up on the South Lawn of the White House.
But that’s what happened yesterday when Boehner attended the annual congressional picnic:
The AP has more about the event:
President Barack Obama is hosting lawmakers for a White House tradition – the annual congressional picnic that gives lawmakers a chance to put aside their partisan fights and pick up plates of hot dogs and pies.
This year the theme on the South Lawn was State Fair, and booths offered ice cream sundaes, kettle corn and even pie throwing.
Many lawmakers both Democratic and Republican attended Wednesday, including Obama’s chief congressional antagonist, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
In brief remarks Obama said he hoped the spirit of community evident at the picnic would carry over into other days, and despite their differences people would remember all are part of the American family.
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last frontier
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:22pmI wonder if he will get a fine for smoking on Goverment property? Cantor looks as if he is having a good time as well, nice to know the kings and queens are enjoying themselves while we are out here in the depression all those Ratbastards created!. I can t wait for the next election, and the next and the next.
Report Post »maddogLGTX
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:40pmIt will take more than the next,the next and the next! All the “bluebloods”, as they think themselves, to be need to be flushed with red blooded Americans. The problem is that the newby’s get tainted before the flushing can be completed. We need term limits and strict adherence to the constitution. it is sad when only seventeen % of our elected congressional members can pass a questionaire about the content/protections of the constitution. Shoudn’t they be tested before they are elected? Wake up people!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:21pmI can not believe they actually caught someone on camera, smoking a cigarette outside. This is Huge News !!!!!! I expect this to be on the front page of the local fish wrap tomorrow. Seriously, CNN is so hard up for news that they attempt to make this newsworthy? It’s no wonder only the sheeple watch Lame-stream media anymore. Freakin’ Liberals need to focus on more important issues than Bohner smoking a cig.
Report Post »DuctTape
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:16pmI have never been a smoker, but I can’t understand why this is significant. Cigarettes are a legal product, just like beer. The President can share a beer on the lawn and it is praised. Freedom of choice. Period.
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:14pmMeh.
Report Post »Suzanne912
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:14pmI know how he feels being around politicians makes me want to smoke too
Report Post »MosesMcGurk
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:14pmBack in my Navy days circa 1971 Smoking was encouraged, Uncle Sam sold them to us at two for a penny! The Smoking Lamp is lit!
Report Post »Gashouse Gorilla
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:11pmUuh, this is news?
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:10pmGreece is more important today….than the fact that Boehner is into cancer sticks.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:09pmMore importantly people in GREECE are fighting the good fight against “Banking Cartels” who TANKED their ECONOMY(like they are doing here.) They are calling for their ARRESTS!! They are calling for the arrest of their CORRUPT governmental officials. Mercernaries are infiltrating legitimate protestors by acting as anarchist. Greek LAWYER class and even cops…calling for the ARRESTS those that orchestrated the“ economic terrorism” !!!!!!
Last week the Swiss and Italians called for the arrest of Kissinger, now the Greeks calling for the arrests of “People affiliated with the NWO, UN AGENDA 21″ Criminal Bankers and Bureaucrats that are causing wars and destroying economical structures of sovereign nations. GREEKs ARE CALLING THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT, “treasonous.“ Calling Goldman Sachs ”Economic Terrorist!!!!”
THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT!!!!! AND THE GREEKS ARE AT THE VANGUARD OF FIGHTING AGAINST THE “BANKING CARTELS” AND THEIR “POLITICIAN TERRORIST! allies”
The Greeks were looted like we are being looted by bankers and their own government! (where’s all that missing bail out money? hmmmmmmm) this was done to greeks. THIS IS not about the “Austerity measures” as we are led to believe, this is about CORRUPTION IN THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF GREEK GOVERNMENT and the GREEKS ARE STANDING UP TO THE CRIMINALS IN HIGH PLACES!!!!!!!
Obama you are next you and your damned czars.
http://maxkeiser.com/2010/11/06/www-stopspeculators-gr/comment-page-1/
Report Post »pjgroff61
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:48pmOh Puleese, those band old bankers, yada yada yada. Those people did it to themselves. Who said the Government should provide everything you need?? People elected their government and those elected officals gave them what they wanted, and either didn‘t care or didn’t want to know that a day of reconing woudl happen. Now the people are made and want what they cannot have let alone afford. Either the present elected greek government should resign in mass and let the fools take over. In which case Greece will end as a country we know, or accept the reality and get to work.
Report Post »Brem
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:06pmObama could be mainlineing heroin on camera and CNN would not notice
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:48pm@ BREM
True!
Report Post »Wouldn’t THAT be a great video!
nopcspokenhere
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:06pmCan’t smoke on gubment property shoulda gone out to the sidewalk!
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:51pmGovernment property.That means it belongs to
Report Post »We The People
This People says
Smokem if you Gotem.
Otherbill
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:06pmWas barry lighting up a joint or doing coke in hiding???
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:58pmIt’s legal, so good for him. He’d better not buy chocolate milk from a school cafeteria to drink, or take Amish milk across state borders; that’s pure evilness.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:54pmCome to find out, Weiner was the punchline at the Congressional Picnic at the White House
Sorry here is the site reporting this: http://tiny.cc/ig7w5
Report Post »2010GOP
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:53pm???????? At the annual congressional picnic ????????????
I don’t care if Boehner smokes.
I do care about this expense, no matter the $$$,$$$ it costs, or the $$$ it costs. This is an example where the Speaker should have said the taxpayers need not suffer this expense and cancel it until further notice. And, no I don’t think a special interest group should fund it or sponsor it as an alternative.
This minor amount of $$$,$$$ had it been saved would have shown that someone is getting serious about ALL spending, not just the big stuff that needs dealt with as well. I believe alot of us wood like to have a picnic of our closest 500 friends paid for by the taxpayers. A picnic? What does it solve legislatively? Is this the picnic summit to be followed by the “golf summit” on Sunday?
Does anybody else see this, or are we going to go with not voting for Boehner because he smokes a cigarette? I won‘t vote for him or anyone that doesn’t have a record/plan/stand of VOTING for balancing the budget, cutting spending, holding/reducing the deficit, and the debt ceiling. But, if he gets this accomplished that I will send him a pack of smokes for doing something meaningful, rather than putting around the golf course with the big O’s 73rd round of golf since holding office…. how much is that costing us? I know, who cares, right? What?
Report Post »spiroscythe
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:33pmCouldn’t have put it any better -
Report Post »True American66
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:52pmBlaze……why is this a story?….Did I miss something or has it become illegal to smoke? This story is a little nannyish, don’t you think?….He‘s a big boy and if he wants to smoke that’s his business. It’s the same as if he wanted to take a drink or drive a gas guzzler. THIS IS AMERICA!
Report Post »jeckelmyhyde
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:52pmCigarette Nazis on the prowl…
Report Post »BrianCK
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:48pmThat’s cool…I don’t ever recall him preaching to anyone not to smoke…No big deal here.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:47pmLast time I checked, it wasn’t illegal, so what’s the problem with him lighting up??
Report Post »smak
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:22pmHe‘s smoking right in people’s faces, but they have to defer to his power.
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:46pm@ SMAK
Oh goodie! A politically correct loser who has our best interests in mind! A communist nanny stater!
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:54pmSMAK, I’d like to smoke your face.
Report Post »smak
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 2:48am@Bob_R_OathKeeper
Report Post »Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:54pm
SMAK, I’d like to smoke your face
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Smoke my di*k.
grannyjojo
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:47pmThe man smokes, it’s still legal…..soooooo? “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”
Report Post »Miz T
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:46pm…and? So what? At least he’s outdoors.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:43pmMore importantly…why would eat eat with obama?
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:46pmOr…why would he eat with obama?
Report Post »donedunn
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:50pmAmen to that. How much are we each paying for them to have a stupid picnic on the South Lawn. Food, security, cleanup, transporation, entertainment….all that costs something and they have run us into the sewer. These public servants think they are royalty and I’ve had enough of it.
Report Post »smak
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:17pmBecause he’s an adult with good manners.
Report Post »donedunn
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:42pmBoehner…Get some freakin self control and while you’re at it grow a pair and actually take on this President and the leftist agenda the way you promised you would. If you can‘t or won’t do it then get out of the way.
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:59pmDID HE JUST wipe his face on his sleeve when he was behind that woman?
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:40pmLight em if you got em!!!! It is not illegal and is no ones business but his!!! I wish the hatred and venom that is targeted towards smokers would be turned towards those that drink! Sorry if you disagree, I never light up a cigarette and want to beat the crap out of people or kill people while driving so on and so on.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:35pmSo what else is new?
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:46pmSomething else for the left to demagogue. Remember, they have no beliefs in personal freedom of choices!
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:47pm^____^____^
Report Post »Yea really… meanwhile the world is burning to the ground. Then again what do you expect from CNN, they wont cover real news and have to do everything they can to put attention on conserv’s vs their own like Weinie boy or Wasserman-Schultz
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:49pm20-30 years ago, this was common. Watch old tv shows and see how much smoking they did then. What all the hubbub is about, I don’t know. Being a non-smoker, who grew up in a smoker house-hold, I don’t pay too much attention to it, unless it is indoors.
Report Post »poorrichardsnews
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:51pmHow about Mitt Romney being a big fat liberal. Oh wait, that’s not new either. In 2009 Romney said TARP saved EVERY job in America: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/6580291059/mitt-romney-is-a-liberal-part-1-romney-supported-tarp
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:52pmPies and sundaes , kettle corn and hot dogs ? On WH lawns ?
Report Post »Where is Moochel ?
fastfacts
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:53pmCome to find out, Weiner was the punchline at the Congressional Picnic at the White House
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:54pmIt’s a legal product and brings in massive amounts of taxes … he knows the risks and “chooses” to smoke. Big deal … .I choose not to … so what?
TEA!
Report Post »Gail_B_Bell
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:57pmI personally like to smoke, the only reason I leave the house sometimes is to buy more cigarettes, but I am only hurting myself and my dogs. I admit I am an addict to tobacco and cannot quit. (Tried many times in 55 years smoking)
Too bad that O-Barry had the guts to quit and the Speaker doesn’t. But like everyone says here, who cares, really, how much guts people have about personal legal addictions.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:11pmI bet that had BO running for the back garden to sneak a puff as well!
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:25pmJonathon did it again, what a wonderful story!
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:29pmPeople think smoking is evil. What a joke!!!!!
Report Post »chiefparker
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:30pmIf it’s weed report it, otherwise shut up…
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:31pmAt least he’s not pretending to have quit like SOMEONE ELSE WE KNOW….
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:37pmThis is a story???? I want to see them eating lunch!!!
Report Post »greenherring
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 2:51pmOH MY GOD! I can’t believe this!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:04pmThat was a waste of MegaBits.
Report Post »gilshouse
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:28pmWhat about that communist pig Obama drinking beer in the Oval Office?
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:45pmOh no! You mean he can choose to smoke??????????
Report Post »The horror of individuals choosing for themselves!
chazman
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:47pmIt’s still legal, and I don’t smoke, and I still don’t care …
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 4:38pmGood for him. Why doesn’t he spend some political capital helping to get the anti-smoking laws and regulations toned down a bit instead of being a corporate stooge like the rest of congress. While I don’t smoke my wife does and I think the needle here is way too far towards infringing on the individuals right to choose to smoke.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 4:46pmmaybe he rolled his own out of the white house garden
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:49pmYou would think that the headline was “Government Camera Catches Boehner Eating Children During South Lawn Picnic”…Please, this is news. Last I heard it was legal. I see people do it every day.
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:50pm@ VENNOYE
That’s the root of at least half of our problems!
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:53pmIf he can afford the luxury taxes, by all means. Unfortunately I’m having to recycle my chews.
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:59pmfar as I know…. smoking is not COMPLETELY illegal.
Report Post »Did he inhale?
101
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 6:21pmfreedom to smoke a cigarette in America…peoples rights & freedom imagine that!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:28pmsmoke em if ya got em !! Chooses to smoke, OK with Me !!
NOBAMA-2012…………..Semper Fi
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:38pmWhere’s Bama ? Probably smokin behind a tree ..Com’on
Report Post »have one with the Speaker, no one will care, Honest !!!
I‘ts a party for heaven’s sake !!!
mill
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:31pmso? moot point, move on….
i don’t care if he stuffs cigarettes up his..
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:53pmObama smokes crack, so what’s the big deal?
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:09amGood for him. At least he is man enough to be who he is and doesn’t try to hide it or deny it.
Freedom of choice and individual responsibility. .
Report Post »GreenSicko
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:47amHell I thought he light up a joint. You can tell it was a green cig because it would not burn after the first light.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 1:14amSo what. For a little while, yet, we still have the ability to practice free choice. What’s it to you?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 1:15amDid the Progs gather in a circle and sing ‘kumbaya?”
Report Post »nptden
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 1:35amDid he borrow Obama’s lighter?
Report Post »blxlr07
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 1:47amThe last I checked this is still the United States of America, and it is not an illegal substance.
After he lit up he probably offered his lighter for the President to light up his cigeratte.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 7:20amSo he’s human… Big Deal. Last I heard, cigarettes are still a legal substance no matter how hard these Progressives try to outlaw them and everything else in our lives…
Rather than going after law-abiding citizens who smoke in their own homes, these politicians should be going after thousands of lawbreakers bringing in tons of illegal drugs through our wide-open southern border…
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:00amIf he lit up a joint this would be a story. Cmon Blaze…………REALLY? I’d expect this from huffpo.
Report Post »WBS
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 8:26pmIf one chose to be gay and married. I wonder how much on their freedom of choice would you all support.
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