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Boulanger: "I Work To Support My Wife's Christian Louboutin Addiction"

You may not have known this, but before former Team Abramoff lobbyist Todd Boulanger got indicted for bribing government aides, he was something of a fashion icon -- at least for the staid city he lived in.

In October 2006, he appeared in Washingtonian magazine's "Men with Style" package. Some gems:

How would you describe your style? Savile Row meets Thrasher magazine.

Favorite labels? Duncan Quinn, Paul Smith, Theory, John Varvatos, and Ralph Lauren. But nothing beats a custom suit.

Biggest splurge? It probably wasn't for me--I work to support my wife's Christian Louboutin addiction.

There are a lot of places we could go here, snark-wise. Better to leave it, maybe.

Still, given Boulanger's apparent love of fine fashion, we couldn't help noticing the fact that, during his once-thriving career as a Republican talking-head on cable TV, he once opined: "Barack Obama is a total diva."

It's in this Daily Show segment (Boulanger appears at the 3:15 mark), which fingers Boulanger as one of the many no-name political pundits who appear above fancy-sounding but meaningless titles like "GOP strategist."


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Thanks for resurrecting that Daily Show clip...it was one of my favorites during the campaign. Pure genius; sidesplitting!

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Grab addition with the Daily Show clip!!

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he has awesome taste in menswear designers. too bad his politics suck. he is in need of drastic and unusual intervention. someone needs to kidnap him and reeducate him with kenneth cole ads for 72 hours.

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It's possible he may be settling for stripes in orange. The prison variety.

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Maybe the Senate could add something to the stimulus package for network TV political analysts? Lotsa people looking for work, and the job obviously requires no skills or experience.

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Just goes to show that you can put a pig in a suit, he's still a pig.

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