He Said He Said That He Said
So, the story starts with Senator Dick Durbin posting on Facebook that a member of the Republican House leadership told President Obama, “I cannot even stand to look at you.”
Durbin did not name the Republican leader.
A day later the White House denied it happened.
And the next day, which would be today, comes the information that Harry Reid is the source of the story. And there’s this —
The two senators who spoke to HuffPost did not hear the Republican make the remark, but said a top White House aide who was present later told Senate Democratic leaders that the lawmaker who said he couldn’t stand to look at the president was Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Rules Committee.
I am not saying that sounds exactly like something Pistol Pete Sessions would say, but you know what, dammit that sounds exactly like something that Pistol Pete Sessions would say. I’d be willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that if he did not say it to President Obama’s face, he’s certainly said it behind his back.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Thanks to Carol for the heads up.
If I may stray off subject for a moment!
Ladies, what in the world is going on with Texas voting, now they do not want women to vote!!!!!!
1Soon they will have run out of groups to disenfranchise, I wonder if you gals and Wendy have got them running scared.
Did he end it with “Boy?”
2Shot off his mouth and hit himself in the foot again, huh? He LOOKS plenty old enough to know better!
3The House Rules Comedy — that would be the folks who amended the standing order to keep anyone but Airwick Cantor from bringing the Senate’s bill to the floor. Figures.
4The door wasn’t locked, Pete. If you were that uncomfortable you could have left the room. I suspect you wouldn’t have been missed.
5He’s got no lips. What happened to the guy’s lips?
6I still give odds that somebody – whether it was Sessions or not – actually said it. Regardless of political persuasion, every single person who was in that room understands that owning up to such a remark actually happening will touch off a firestorm that will outstrip anything before it in the history of this entire administration. It would be a loss of face for the President and the traditions of deference and respect for the occupant of the highest office in our country, regardless of who that incumbent may be. As for Congress, it would be akin to setting off the bombs at the finish of the Boston Marathon, a weapon of mass destruction that will turn inter party warfare into inter party hatred.
The truth will come out, unfortunately. It’s only a matter of time.
7Ralph @6
“He’s got no lips. What happened to the guy’s lips?”
LOL.
They got taken away in the vain hope that he wouldn’t speak.
8Photos of the pink boots, please. I am severely jealous.
9Sequel: “But I SED I was SWRY” accompanied by sniveling and much knuckling of the eyes like any 5-yr-old!
Honestly, I know 5-yr-olds that could represent us better!
10Ralph – that happens when you kiss so many oil company behinds.
11I believe Senators Durbin and Reid here. Pete Sessions is a weasel and this is the type of stupid thing that he would say
12Aggieland liz: I have it on good authority that the only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.
13This is right up there with the gal I was friends with … from church … who said she would NOT say the black guys name because … “I have no respect for him!”
I said “… his name is Barack Obama” and that was the last time I had anything to do with her. She no longer goes to my church and I do speak to her whenever I run into her at a restaurant or at the store.
Sad … sad … people!!
14My money is on the pink boots. I know a good thing when I see it.
15His lips? Honey, one day he sucked them in so far to give his own self a kiss that they stayed sucked!
16And yet another Texas congresscritter surfaces in the midst of scurrilous accusations. JJ, I AM having trouble keeping them all straight and am in dire need of that scorecard you mentioned.
17“A bullet headed Saxon mother’s son” to paraphrase the Beatles. Especially the bullet headed part.
18Figures. The only sane Sessions is Mark.
19When first I read and digested this matter, the only name to mind was Pete Sessions. Since it was Leadership, I could eliminate Joe Barton, Louis Ghomert and the rest of the taxus delegation.
20I hope sumbuddy is takin’ notes and hacking away at a new dozen or so non-fiction pieces of whatever you want to call ’em.
21Yeah, like I said yesterday: I believed Durbin. And good for Harry Reid naming names now.
22Wouldn’t surprise me if somebody said it, even to Obama’s face. That other jackwagon whose name I don’t bother to remember yelled “You lie!” at him in the middle of the State of the Union address.
I can’t stand to look at several dumb*** GOP presidents but I wouldn’t stand there and tell them that.
23I dunno that anyone should be polite to these lunatics. I spent the entire shutdown writing poison pen emails to our lovely Joe (Luvs Uganda and their gay laws)Pitts, sometimes three and four times a day. These people are rude and nasty and twice as stupid as any of us, and yet we are paying them big bucks to act this way.
What does this say about US??
24Between Smokey Joe and Pistol Pete why would we ever feel the need for better representation?
25Look at his non-denial denial http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/pete-sessions-obama_n_4160997.html
Sessions denies the alleged insult when speaking with reporters on Thursday, saying anyone who may have been within earshot is lying, and anyone who taped the conversation broke protocol. He assures reporters that he “made no public statement in that way,” and that he has “no reason to believe” he made a private statement, either. One reporter presses Sessions, saying his comments don’t sound like an absolute denial.
26Well, that makes us even; I didn’t watch a State of the Union Address for 8 years because I couldn’t stand looking at that “Alfred E Neuman” face. (Y’all know who I’m talking about!)
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