imagine what the media would do to harry reid if he spent $82,998 on golf outings

[spanone]

trust me, they would fucking crucify the man.....but you can google boehner & golf and you get about 3 stories.

http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en&q=golf+boehner&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&ei=kDcPS-39INS0tgfg7aitCQ&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQsQQwAA.

...liberal media?


Wedge issue: John Boehner PAC splurges on golf

By all public estimations, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is a pretty good golfer.

He should be, given the $82,998 his political action committee has spent on golf outings so far this year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

The golf events this year sponsored by Boehner’s Freedom Project political action committee have stretched from April until October, from Florida to Ohio. And the minority leader doesn’t hold his events at worn-out municipal courses. The most recent outing was a $20,921.34 event at the plush Robert Trent Jones track in Gainesville, Va., an invitation-only private club that was once also home to the Professional Golfers Association's President’s Cup.

The highest expenditure was a September event at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The Freedom Project spent $29,501.20 for an event on the course, which hosts the annual PGA Memorial Tournament.

Another favorite of Boehner’s PAC seems to be the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla., where the committee spent more than $30,000 in April and May. The Tiburon Golf Course, a 36-hole course at the hotel, also hosts a professional tournament each year.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29881.html

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #1 for, what IS it about GOLF (yawn) that makes dudes/nuts SO crazy?!1 n/t

[pundaint]

8. I'll tell you

1. The game offers continuous challenges. It's hard enough that you're never done.

2. The environment is a beautiful place to be.

3. Guys like to have an activity to justify getting together, we don't just come over for coffee and gab. Golf is an excellent activity for that, there's plenty of time for socializing between shots.

4. Almost everybody now and then hits a perfect shot, and it just feels so good.

5. Guys like to have something to compete at.

6. There are many toys to buy, and that's fun.

7. It's tough to get interrupted when you're on the course. A player can lock in 3-5 hours of "me" time.

8. Beer

[MadMaddie]

12. I just started playing

It is an intriguing game!

[senseandsensibility]

2. Boner is a repug

and therefore untouchable. What would the corporate media do to a Dem with such an obvious fake tan? The double standard is absolutely breathtaking sometimes.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I wonder how much more Boner spends on tanning salons and cocktail lounges

I find it simply ASTONISHING...STUNNING that no one in the media comments on his slurred speech and drunken sounding tone. At times, right there on the House floor, he sounds plastered out of his skull. Do we pay him to get drunk? If a Democrat sounded drunk like that on the job, he'd be the laughing stock of every late night comic and a subject of investigations.

[UTUSN]

4. Like "hot tub" DELAY!1 n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. Think how many threads there would be about it here at DU if it had been any Dem?

There would have been hundreds of threads from "concerned" DUers about that.

Don

[gratuitous]

6. You know what WOULD be a scandal for Boehner?

If he went to a public course and paid for the round with his own money.

[Kansas Wyatt]

7. BREAKING: Non-Stop Coverage of a Constitutional Crisis Over It?

:shrug:

[chollybocker]

9. A complete list of Boner's 'golfing partners' would be nice.

:)

Publicly name every one of these lobbyist mofos, then audit their asses off, one by one.

Golf. Pffft. :eyes:

[Vidar]

10. K&R

[zbdent]

11. remember the flak he received when he attended a boxing event

in Vegas? His constituency ... and he was an amateur boxer, too ...