Joe Scarborough Clarifies: Rep. John Boehner Prefers Golfing More Than Working

Joe Scarborough would like to clear something up. Yesterday he did NOT say that he “thought that John Boehner did not work hard enough, or that he went out and partied.” Later clarifying that, since Capitol Hill is very small, people know what people do, and “John Boehner is known as a guy that likes to golf, likes to have a good time and is not known as a hard worker.” Aha! Somewhere I am sure that the office of John Boehner doesn’t love the clarification.

Some background. On Morning Joe yesterday, co-host Joe Scarborough (a former Republican congressman himself) brought up rumors over the work ethic of John Boehner (R-OH) — or the lack thereof — while speaking with Politico’s Jim VandeHei. It was a great television moment that predictably elicited a response from Boehner’s office.

With an impish grin, Scarborough brought this up again this morning, claiming that he himself didn’t know that Boehner was a lazy lush, but rather, the word among Republicans on “the hill” was that he didn’t have a good work ethic and was often in bars at 5:00 PM. Glad to know that.

It’s almost as much fun the second time around.

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