Tie-tanic
Roll Call Staff
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who styles himself a sartorial consultant to other Members, is getting a tad snobby in his fashion critiques.
Not only has he dubbed shabby dressing “LaTourette Syndrome” after his Ohio Republican colleague, Rep. Steven LaTourette. Recently, Boehner almost had a conniption when he saw the tie worn by Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.).
To be fair, the tie, by all accounts, was perfectly hideous. But Boehner took
it upon himself to tell the two-term Michigander to, ahem, lose the tie, dude.
Boehner walked up to McCotter on Tuesday, pointed at his ugly cravat, and said, “When you take that tie off tonight, burn it.” The tattered, reddish tie is a “Tango” tie by Max Raab that depicts a 19th century musical band of cowboys with mustaches, beards and six-shooters on their hips, along with a sign that says: “Dodge City Cow-Boy Band.”
We stress: not cool, especially considering that McCotter is just shy of 40 and falls within the age range of those expected to be at hipper end of the fashion scale.
So McCotter went home that night, did some thinking and made a bold decision. On Wednesday, he returned to the Speaker’s Lobby, where he found Boehner, predictably, smoking a cigarette in his favorite leather chair. He handed the Ohio Republican a large manila envelope. Inside it was the tie. Puzzled, Boehner asked, “What would I do with it? Wash my car?”
Asked later about the insult, McCotter offered a nice comeback: “That’d be nice, because we all know he doesn’t drive his own car. He may as well wash it.”
Well, it would be a good comeback if Boehner, chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, used a car and driver. But he doesn’t.
Then McCotter went for the jugular, saying Boehner’s “year-round tan shocks and awes you to the point that you’re submissive to whatever sartorial guidance he has to give.”
Return of Washingtonienne. With her new book now on the shelves (and a Jonathan Yardley rave in The Washington Post), Jessica Cutler must have decided it was time to get more promotional pictures taken.
This time, though, the bad-girl ex-Senate aide, known in the blogosphere as Washingtonienne, didn’t hit a New York City studio or stand on the Mall with the Capitol in the background, as she did in her “other” photo shoot for Playboy.com.
No, for this shoot — whatever it was for, we’re not sure — Cutler chose the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building, almost smack dab in front of the office of conservative Republican Sen. Jim Bunning (Ky.).
Cutler — who was fired from the office of Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) after she revealed her extensive and tawdry sex life on her blog — posed for the camera for at least 20 minutes, according to eyewitnesses, leaning on the railing and flipping her hair back as she did her best “come hither” pose for the lens. Dressed in a remarkably unrevealing black dress, she almost went unnoticed as Hill staffers walked by.
One Senate aide said, “The only time I have seen her was in a magazine, and in those photos she was in the shower wearing nothing but some soap suds. I had to look twice to make sure it was really her. I thought she’d be taller.”
Cutler, whose blog detailed her sexual liaisons with six different men, is now being sued by one of them: Robert Steinbuch, DeWine’s Judiciary Committee counsel who is seeking unspecified damages for “invasion of privacy” and “emotional distress.”
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