Pistol Pete Sessions and His Boy Scout Badge That Is Redeemable For a Law Degree
Republican Congresscrap Pistol Pete Sessions – who got that name because he’s always shooting off his mouth – has done it again. His middle name is “Sue Obama.”
Rep. Pete Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman who led Wednesday’s hearing on Republicans’ plans to sue President Obama, presented the legal credentials that have put him in this position of responsibility.
“I’m an Eagle Scout,” the Texas Republican told his colleagues. “I studied the merit badges that we took about governance, about cities, states, the national government.”
Screw Obama and the constitutional law expertise he rode in on. Pete Sessions has a damn merit badge.
Even Jonathan Turley admitted that there was very little chance that the Republicans could win this lawsuit but …
He counseled Republicans not to worry about the steep odds, saying, “I don’t believe that the challenges in front of this lawsuit is an excuse to do nothing.”
In other words, you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride. It’s a bogus lawsuit but by golly they can make the President of the United States of America sweat. And the speeches they can give on the House floor – oh the speeches! – right before the mid term elections.
And Pete was not alone on the Texas Ship of Fools.
To overcome the contradictions, Republicans on the panel employed various strategies. Rep. Michael Burgess (Tex.) played the bumpkin. “I’m just a simple country doctor, not a constitutional lawyer, but I do understand due dates,” he reasoned.
And in the alternative let me add, “I’m just a learned constitutional lawyer, but I can take out your appendix.”
Goofy has come to town and he ain’t leaving until he’s rectified the fact that the presidency belongs to white boys.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
A Boy Named Sue. I remember that song. If this doesn’t motivate apathetic Democrats and Independents to get off their lazy, irresponsible asses and vote this November, I don’t know what will.
1The discovery phase of this lawsuit is going to be interesting.
2Have these guys ever, and I do mean ever, envisioned what history will say about them when the pages are written about the first African American President of this country? It won’t be anything to make them proud.
3Pete Sessions just gave the Boy Scouts a bad name. Shameful!
4I wish to heck there were a way to make the Koch brothers pay for these lawsuits, instead of us taxpayers. Let them burn their own dollar bills.
5More circuses. Keeps the D-baggers and the T-baggers thinking that the GOP is a bunch of lion tamers.
6Tell you what: let’s drop ol’ Pistol Pete off in the wilds of Alaska with a pocket knife and a compass and see how long it takes him to get out. IF he gets out.
Then we’ll see what those old merit badges are worth.
7Well, my respect for Eagle Scouts just dropped. But maybe most of them are not like this jackwagon.
8Funny how being an Eagle Scout qualifies one to be an expert in Constitutional Law, but does not qualify one to express an opinion on global warming. After all, just because you’re an Eagle Scout doesn’t mean you’re a scientist.
On a side note, one wonders whether the Boy Scouts have a merit badge in ethics, telling the truth, taking responsibility for one’s own actions, admitting it when you’re wrong, and other areas of knowledge where Republicans seem to lack expertise.
9The only claim to fame the Boy Scouts had was having a higher poll number than the Congressional Republicans. Now ol’ Pistol Pete is conflating the two.
10My wife and I used to own a retail store. One night after closing we caught one of our employees, also an Eagle Scout, pulling up to the dumpster behind the store to steal a bunch of items he had placed out there earlier. Being an Eagle Scout doesn’t impress me any more.
11It was obvious from the first day this president was in office that the old white men who have been ruling this country for way too long were not going to accept the fact that a man of color was now in charge. They simply are racists, and ignorant on top of that. The only word they know is “NO”. It is no wonder that so few bills have been passed by this racist congress. I’m not too sure it will be any different if a woman is elected president. The old white men want to control everyone and everything. Well, some of them aren’t so old, but their ignorance is the same. How Mr. Obama has kept his cool, is beyond me.
12Marv, it will be different if a woman is elected President. It will be worse. The N-word has gone out of style. The B-word and even the C-word are still found in what is supposed to be polite society and in what are reputed to be progressive web sites.
Note that the recent Supreme Court decisions didn’t directly limit men’s rights in any way, regardless of race. Women’s rights are targeted on a continual basis.
13He can put some other merit badges to good use:
Space exploration – A study of what’s between his ears
Coin collecting – He’s perfected this
Mammal Study – http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/conservative_rep_sessions_star.html
Plumbing – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/11/58954/-Pete-Sessions-R-TX-caught-naked
Citizenship in the community – http://www.norepete.com/where-does-pete-sessions-live/
14“I was an Eagle Scout. Not only that, I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night!”
15I never noticed before the resemlance between PPS and Major Burns (MASH). They both had no lower lip!
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