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A usually mundane congressional proceeding drifted into testy turf when a prominent Republican colleague accused a Democratic colleague of drunkenness during official proceedings.
A late-night meeting of the House Rules Committee to conduct what's known as a "mark-up" — a prolonged session of technical fixes to a piece of legislation — contained unexpected fireworks on Wednesday evening. Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican who heads the House GOP's campaign efforts, accused Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern (D) of drinking on the job.
“I think we've gotten this that Mr. McGovern is not happy,” Sessions said to McGovern, borne of frustration at the repeated amendments offered by McGovern to the National Defense Authorization Act.
“I think this is also behavior, um, that I wonder if people have been out drinking tonight or whether they are mad or angry or incapable of controlling themselves. And I would question that tonight.”
McGovern took issue with the remarks, and hit back at Sessions.
“I would say to the gentleman that, you know, there are some issues worth fighting over, and for me ending this war is one of them,” McGovern said referring to the war in Afghanistan, “I'm sorry that the gentleman doesn't think that that — take that very seriously.” Sessions quickly responded, saying, “Simple asking a question, if the shoe fits.”
View video of the hearing here
The interaction came in the seventh hour of a hearing that ended just before midnight, eight and a half hours after it started. During that hearing, 241 amendments were submitted for the defense bill, 142 of which were approved to move on to a full vote in the House. Rules Committee Hearings typically showcase frustration from the minority side, as the majority has control over what amendments are subsequently voted on by the full House or Representatives.
According to McGovern’s office, the congressman had not been drinking and Sessions called to apologize the next morning. Sessions pushed back to reporters late Thursday, saying that he spoke to McGovern that morning, but failed to confirm that he apologized for the remarks.
“I don’t know what there is to apologize about,” Sessions told reporters, “I mean, I’m not trying to say, ‘No, I didn’t apologize to him,’ that was not the discussion.”
Sessions said he hasn’t seen the tape of the late night exchange, but when reminded by reporters that he had intimated that McGovern had been drinking, he denied it. “No I did not [suggest that he was drinking],” Sessions said, “I’m not trying to intimate anything, I’m trying to say Jim was having a tough night and I’m sorry he did.”
The exchange comes as House Democrats are speaking out against the Republican’s exclusion of an amendment McGovern had submitted during the hearing, which was rejected by the Republican majority on the Rules Committee. Both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) spoke out on the House floor against the decision, with Hoyer saying the amendment’s exclusion was “unworthy of the Rules Committee.”
"I’m rarely surprised around here,” Pelosi said on the House floor, “ I was surprised that that discussion could not take place on this floor in the form of approving that amendment.”
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I'll drink to that.......
This is @!$%#ing priceless when you have Boehner as the Weeper of the House and A #1 alcoholic according to his own colleagues...
You really can not make this stuff up... even if you tried... super hard!
Boehner's hormonal imbalance has nothing to do with his lack of testosterone - the dude is a freaking drunk and all of DC knows it!
Here is a thought - clean up your own backyard prior to lobbing stones at those who live in glass houses!
I think they all (GOP and DEM) are on CRACK and LSD...alcohol is just to take the edge off
Have we totally hit bottom yet?
Usually an Alcoholic will call out another Alcoholic.........like the Pot calling the Kettle Black.
The people who are really drinking on the job are the voters that elected these GOP nitwits in the first place.
Anna,
I think we are pretty close.
The political dysfunction is on a blackout binge, throw anything out to the citizens...the crisis is back again, J P Morgan, debt ceiling redux, and throw in social issues just to make sure all the fundamentals will turn out and vote for the righteous GOP.
Obama, cool and steady, has steered us through the worst of the Great Recession, but Europe can be the new ingredient to turn the global economy into uncharted territory.
It is precisely at that time of greatest change and risk, that a demagogue can play on the deepest fears of a nation or a state.
Washington DC will give him an honorary "OTIS" award from the Otis Campbell Society. ;-)
Obama hasn't done anything in 3 years. He is a lame duck wanna be. If he thinks that the american people are going to vote for him whilst he is sitting on his butt, then he is going to be in for a big surprise come November.
Tell the democrats to fix the economy this year rather than focusing on personal issues. Nobody wants to hear anything about it when we are all broke.
Hey Unhappy The Nit Wit Republicans re-selected George Walker Bush didn't they? Even after he had run the country into the ditch with two unfunded regime change wars
LOL, here in Bloomington Illinois the guys call "fat ass girls" Feisty. I don't mean anything about the redhead from Roselle, just thought that it was hillarious when i saw it!
can't wait for election time!!
Hey Chuck, you Nit-witted democrats elected Obama didn't you? After growing our debt ceiling and taking all those oversees vacations when are you going to learn that Obama put more people out of work, than in a job.
Afterall, we are all so much better off now aren't we after HE was elected?
Hey Chuck. Congress voted to fund both. Get over it.
LOL, where i'm from all the guys call fat bottom girls "FEISTY"
can't wait for election time, see some repubs taking a long walk on a short plank!
I can't trust Sessions on that, because his judgment might have been compromised by his own drinking.
If I had to sit there for hours listening to a boring old prick like "Sessions", I think I'd hit the bottle too.....
If they didn't sign that piece of crap into legislation as it was on new years day then they wouldn't have to spend eight hours and forty minutes amending it, right?
LOL, wher I'm from we call "big bottom girls" FEISTY. Sorry redhead from roselle, just thought that was hilarious when i say your screenname...
Gonna be some repubs taking a long walk on a short plank come election!!
Yes we are better now than before Obama was elected, when Obama took office the economy was in free fall. Job losses were averaging 750,000 per month, the stock market was plunging by over 50% off its high. Now it is almost double the bottom of the Bsuh crash.
Unemployment is lower than the first month he was in office (And you cannot lay the rate in Feb 09 on him anyway, In Bush's last year Feb 08 to Feb 09) unemployment rose 69% (4.9 % to 8.3%) Obamas policies helped stop the flood and turned it around within 8 months.
America has regained much of its respect in the world, that which was lost by Bush/Cheney and their crowd.
Several wars have ended and another one is almost over. Major terrorists like Bin Laden and Quadaffi are gone
Reps scream when are you going to stop talking about Bush...Simple...when you admit that he totally crashed the economy and made the mess we have.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics which uses the same methodology they have used for decades.
Yes we are not there yet, we are not there as fast as any of us would like...this was not a little mess we were left to fix, this was a disaster. But we will get there, despite the lies and omissions of fact by the right wing. Despite the obstructionism of your party. Don't attempt to say you have tried, your own party leader said his number one job for the next four years would be t make sure Obama was not re-elected. Funny I thought a congressman's job was to legislate, pass laws and get things done--not to spend 4 years campaigning against a man.
Oh my yes Feisty Dumb Fux, the outrage, the complete injustice of it all. I believe that any Democrat could do anything and you'd point your finger at a Republican. Like Nancy's house was clean and the Democrats do not break any rules or point the finger at any Republicans. What a load of horse manure. Your comments stinks, as usual. By the way, the few times I'm on here you've plastered your BS all over this site. Get a life, you will not and can not make a difference. All your doing is adding to the problem by pi$$ing people off.
Feisty, that was what I was thinking too. So he had lunch with Boehner? My concern is that he was with Boehner, not the drinking part. Ha.
3thirty3 -- Until rightwingers get rid of David Vitter, any "morality" accusations mean nothing to me.
I think they all (GOP and DEM) are on CRACK and LSD...alcohol is just to take the edge off
I would be too if my approval rating was 9%.
I like chaos - go righties and lefties. One of the few Bible lines I like; the meek shall inherit the world - so make sure they kill off all of your opposition on both side - we'll use your bodies as fossil fuel.
I love how all liberals have 'garbage' on all conservatives, and how all conservatives have 'garbage' on all liberals. FIRST OFF: MOST OF THE THINGS(NOT ALL) BUT MOST THINGS YOU HEAR ARE *****POLITICAL AGENDA*****. I find it ABSOLUTELY, THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING that it just so happens all conservatives(according to liberals) are liars and cheats...and all liberals(according to conservatives) are liars and cheats. Like, really...please, please, please, PLEASE, someone let me in on all of your secrets! Like, I honestly want to know how everyone is psychic and KNOWS that EVERYONE is a cheat? AND I DON'T WANT LINKS TO A LIBERAL ARTICLE ABOUT A SINGLE, OR EVEN MULTIPLE CONSERVATIVES WHO HAD SEX WITH A PROSTITUTE. OR A LINK TO A CONSERVATIVE ARTICLE ABOUT SEVERAL LIBERALS WHO HAD SEX WITH A PROSTITUTE. I don't want an article. I want both a conservative and a liberal to give me HARD evidence PROVING that all liberals and/or all conservatives are corrupt or worthless.
Feisty: Shut your mouth.
Node: Shut your mouth.
Northstar: Shut your mouth, Obama has done a little, but only as much as any president before him(i find it SO strange that to conservatives, he has done nothing at all, but to liberals he has done everything good, HILARIOUS HOW THAT WORKS) so ill take the stance of the middle, he has done some, but not enough. Every president has their own policies that helps the country, and every president has their own policies that bring the country down and people saying the president runs and brings the country out of despair are completely idiotic. Overall, the WHOLE government is what changes a country.
Unhappy: Shut your mouth. Obama has done some stuff, just not necessarily specifically what you wanted.
Chuck: SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I am so sick of people saying the president is completely to blame for a war...THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT SIT IN HIS OFFICE POINTING HIS FINGER AT A MAP, CHOOSING WHICH COUNTRIES TO ATTACK THAT SPECIFIC DAY. Congress, overall, has the power to declare war unless the president declares martial law(WHICH IS A VERY VERY VERY LIMITED THING IN OUR COUNTRY, WITH ALMOST THE ONLY CIRCUMSTANCE BEING WHEN WE ARE THREATENED WITH AN INVASION). Whether any war is unnecessary seems to always lean on the amount of deaths that occur(losing a soldier is a TERRIBLE THING) but to say that there was NO reason is simply an opinion...you can post all the articles, stories, reports from government officials, events, military statements, etc...but, as the public, we will never know the full truth and everything is just an opinion.
Pigotry: Shut your mouth.
GT: Shut your mouth. I guess being part of one party or another makes someone a prick(NOT). All liberals are pricks, all conservatives are pricks.
Frankly: True, but as i stated above, it is not OBAMA. It is the government. Obama is part of that group...he contributes...but it is the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WHO BRINGS A COUNTRY UP.
thirty: Correct.
bicfi: LOL, you know nothing whatsoever, huh?
Truepatriot: You are not really much of a patriot with a comment like that. I can imagine you like this: "HEY! Guys, a rightwinger did something bad! Woot, all leftwingers are GODS!!!!!!!!! Woot...oh no, a leftwinger did something bad...ACTUALLY, he was a conservative liberal...he wasn't a REAL liberal. We are still untarnished." Ha, what a joke.
Good stuff! You go!
Pete Sessions has been seen buying and snorting percocet, vicodin, xanax, valium, adderral and thorazine, from illegal immigrant children! He also has been caught hanging out at roadside rest areas touching himself while asking strange men passing by to spit on him!
He has received MILLIONS of dollars in "gifts" from Haliburton as well as GW's oil/war machines! He is an upstanding member of the Muslim faith who hates all white people!!!
A slippery slope indeed.
I think they are just ignorant.
I don't think we have covered the Duke of Orange's alcoholism nearly enough. He clearly makes speeches when he is drunk. But, I have to say, if I had to spend the amount of time the Dem House members do with these teabaggers, I'd be drinking, too.
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Hello #1.21~~Who the he** do you think you are? Just shut up your computor! That is the only thing you have control over to shut up!
Great post, thanks! I've felt this for years and if somebody threw a dart at a phone book we would be better off. Viet Vet.
All DemocRATS should drink continously.
Then at least there would be a reason for their ignorant ramblings.
Besides that, the Kennedy's need their support, buy Seagrams !
Republicans will stop at nothing to gain an edge this year during elections.
Viet Vet, interesting post but you got a few things wrong.
The United States is not a corporation, and trying to run it like one is how we ended up in the last recession.
Since you used 425, you seem to be talking about the House of Representatives. A House term is only two years (the Senate is 6, and the Presidency is 4).
There is no drug, or criminal background check - you might not be able to serve on a committee or two (due to security clearance requirements), but neither is required to be elected, and serve.
The compensation for a first term House member is $174,000.00
Otherwise, the sentiment is interesting, but an argument can be made that we need some experienced lawmakers in government. This would be best achieved by there being no retirement package, rather than term limits, and pay that is no more than the average income (excluding investment income) of all Americans. People would serve for a while, and then leave for the greener pastures of being a former legislator.
"Eric-913730 Republicans will stop at nothing to gain an edge this year during elections."
Oh, and the democrats will? I don't think so, they are the dirtiest players in the sandbox.
In northern Illinois we had a republican member of congress who admitted to being a raging alcoholic just before he retired. Bush's daughter and her boyfriend would get so drunk in the White House that the Secret Service, at one point, had to take the boyfriend to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. Half of the members of Congress are probably "heavy drinkers". What's new is that these people have now started "outing" each other. This is going to get a lot dirtier, just wait.
Bluelake...Bush's daughter and her boyfriend would get so drunk in the White House that the Secret Service, at one point, had to take the boyfriend to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.
What does this have to do with anything. Bush's daughter was not an elected official. So, I guess any politician who has a daughter or son that get's drunk is not fit to be an elected official by you bringing this up?
@Hello: well, so much for that old "I might not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." concept.
Gee, a congressman drinking on the job! Who'd a thunk? You'd have to have been living your whole life under a pretty big rock to believe that this is a first, or a second... or a .......
But, I've got to admit that sessions has a point. After all Congress, on both sides of the isle, have been pushing for the last 80 years to take control of our lives and tell us what to do. More so the dems than the repubs, but for most of those years the the repubs, ruled by RINOs, have gone along with it. The thing is that the "rulers" are content to tell others what to do, but aren't so compliant when others tell them what to do. What a surprise!
NEWS UPDATE: Pete Sessions got his information about the Dem's drinking from Rush Limbaugh, right after Rush dropped several hits of morphine and oxycontin...
You see -- it's ok when Republicans abuse drugs and alcohol. They're still worshiped by their mainstream.
Hypocrite much?
I know -- this made me LMFAO!
Which Congressman DOESN'T have a stocked wet-bar in his office? Find one, just one...
This whole article is another Right-Wing joke-a-thon. Pete Sessions can't EVER think of anything intelligent to say, so this is what he comes up with to distract people from the fact that's he's a moron? So typical, so hypocritical... If you took a blood sample from Sessions it would show up with 60% level of Bourbon in his veins. Who does he think he's kidding?
@3thirty3, dirty is inventing lies like "death panels" in order to push forward your agenda.
The point is: if you've got much dirt in your own goddam yard, then clean up your own mess first before pointing the finger of HYPOCRISY into your neighbor's yard. It might help if the lowlifes in the Right Wing would take some time and Grow Up, too... But I doubt any of you will take that advice...
Yep - downhill fast. That's what you get with a lot of religion/cult idiots who think their god is the right and only god, they spend their entire lives trying to inject their cult god into everything, to the point of killing other people to prove their superiority. And yet, not one single religion/cult on the planet has a shred of proof to suggest or prove their divine claims are true or factual.
No wonder the world, and this country, are such a goddam mess.
Greatgran, that was indeed an unneeded, SARCASTIC post that i made but that was my point. The post is pointing out the problem with politics...everyone is trying to bash the other party, usually with zero proof whatsoever, except for a single douche who has sex with a prostitute or uses campaign money for cover ups(which I have noticed seems to condemn an entire party throughout the nation). People believe this, and put a label on that party instead of listening and watching. Both sides have good ideas that can help the country(and anyone who says otherwise is simple minded and can't keep an open mind about anything). To say an entire party is corrupt because one leader makes a 'mistake'...or even multiple leaders make a 'mistake' is completely absurd. If either party is actually as corrupt as everyone seems to 'point out', then there really isn't much we can do about it!(obviously government is not as corrupt as everyone says...there is definitely some corrupt individuals or small groups, but an entire party is not corrupt).
Node: The thing is that everyone can indeed speak their own mind, but whenever it comes down to insults like 'these right wing nitwits' or these 'liberal pigs' or any other crude word, you open yourself for criticism. This isn't about free speech...it is about the obvious issue that every democrat just so happens to be scum in republican eyes, and every republican seems to be scum in democrats eyes. My post was a sarcastic, crude post...but it was unbiased, and aimed at everyone. The party war is arguably one of the biggest issues in politics, except for keeping our economy out of the hole.
And the PRIME EXAMPLE of this is the fact that on most ballots, you can vote all republican or all democrat...that shows how bad politics has become, that it is literally about voting in spite of another party, not actually voting for someone who is fighting for your ideals.
You can't believe anything the Republican liars in Texas tell you. Ask George Bush.
TO: Unhappy-1583758 who wrote:
Rebublicans haven't done anything in the past 3-1/2 years either, other than stall our Recovery and prevent our Economy from moving again.
If Republicans hadn't stood in our way, and if Republicans weren't so afraid that they'd all be fired once the Democrats fixed the Economy, we'd all be much better off.
You want the Economy fixed faster, then vote a straight Democrat Ticket this November!
Obama/Biden 2012
American Girl: Stimulus - check
Obamacare - check
Increase deficit by 50% - check
Transfer wealth to cronies - check
Put in place regulations to slow coal power - check
Moratorium on gulf drilling - check
Block Keystone Pipeline - check
Jobs - Just trust me, they'll come after I get re-elected.
The fact is that the only thing the repubs have done is prevent even more of what has already failed to work, and they haven't done that great a job at that either. Anyone who understands economics, and I mean the real economics that works, knows that there isn't anything that Obama has proposed will do anything to help the economy.
After all Congress, on both sides of the isle, have been pushing for the last 80 years to take control of our lives and tell us what to do. More so the dems than the repubs...
That is such bullcrap! I only have to reference the Republican agendas on abortion, gay rights and the "Patriot" Acts to disprove that crap! And the current Republican candidate - well, at one point in his life he thought it was proper to gang up with a few of his thug buddies and shave a hippie's hair because he didn't like him wearing it long! Yep! Them Republicans are sure freedom lovers, ain't they? As long as it agrees with their notion of freedom...
Are you GOPers on this list shills for the Koch brothers? I mean do you honestly think someone, ANYONE, could clean up the mess left by President Darth Cheney and his sidekick Jabba the Bush?
You know, I can't figure out if you believe your talking heads or you are just too poorly educated to add 2+2.
Oh well. Don't worry. Your christian god will provide. Everything will be fine after the Rapture on December 21.
Pardon me while I go out into the backyard to kill a chicken and read it's bones. I need to know what to do with that 10.00 I have in a coffee can buried in the backyard...
yeesh.
witchrunner
We know. We've heard it before. Austerity and tax cuts for the rich.
Show me ONCE... just ONCE... where that combo worked. We'll even let you search recent tries by the current free world. It has NEVER worked. It kills the middle class. It kills consumer confidence. It kills demand. It feeds the rich and their bank accounts.
REAL economists do support Obama policies. Many say we didn't go far enough.
Personally, I believe that the GOP is responsible for our economic failure AND our lack of recovery. You can't pound on consumer confidence with a 24/7 all media hate message and not have a negative affect on the economy. And guess what happens when a presidential challenger promises huge tax breaks when he gets in? Business people wait... they'll wait for the better deal (for them).
The only Drunk l know is Bonehead !
@Hello - in my case, I really did mean the phrase "GOP nitwits". Any sitting member of Congress that accuses / implies that another sitting member of Congress is under the under the influence while performing an official function of the office is a coward and a moron for not either pursuing it or apologizing publicly. In this case, the GOP not only allows this moron (Sessions) to do this, but supports him in doing so ... hence, my comment stands: the GOP members of Congress that let this individual get away with this are nitwits. That doesn't make me right, but it is my opinion and I'd say the same thing regardless of party affiliation.
ps: I don't I was the only reader / commenter that failed to find the satirical element to your original post.
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Well, if you take the time to follow the link and advance to around 6:45 to 7:00 hours while Congressman McGovern is reading all the Democratic proposed amendments, it is pretty clear that the Congressman is in full control of his faculties and is amazingly cordial throughout the brutal process.
It is very worthwhile to take some time and listen to this, not because about the question of drinking on the job, but for the absolutely disgusting display of the Republicans on the committee. Clearly these guys are intent on being completely obstructionist. Mr. McGovern patiently reads through dozens and dozens of proposed amendments, a large number that are very good and not partisan in any way. In fact you may be surprised how some very innocuous and very worthwhile amendments are shot down. Each proposed amendment one by one is read by Mr. McGovern and each is repeatedly shot down with an 8 opposed to 1 in favor vote.
Mr. Sessions interupts at 7:52, and in fact it is Mr. Sessions is the one who is irritated. He is angry that he has to sit there and listen to all the proposed amendments that they all know they will shoot down regardless of what it is. You can see him fidgeting around before he speaks up to make his accusation. I supposed he assumes that Congressman McGovern must be drunk because he is following the procedure for proposing the amendments knowing full well that they will allow none of them. Congressman McGovern goes through his painful experience of getting brutalized by the Republicans on the committee for about two hours.
What is interesting is how obvious the obstructionist, pure partisan approach the House Republicans have taken. It is well worth listening to a fairly large sampling of this. There are amendments blatantly shot down that almost no person could not support, yet they do oppose these. Of the 85 amendments Mr. McGovern offers, at least half are relatively minor and very worthwhile. I would be surprised if 10% could even remotely be considered as objectionable to conservatives. Clearly the Republicans and Mr. Sessions just wanted Mr. McGovern to just withdraw all the amendments so they didn't have to sit there. Clearly they had no intentions of even listening to them and absolutely no intention of including any of the amendments for discussion by the full House. Take the time to watch some of this and get an education about how these guys do business.
Booman then concludes with:
Of course, since that time…
Legalize pot, heroine, and crack and his drinking on the job will stop. And on the job performance will remain the same.
poodlefan007 hilarious stuff.
Lol and now he denies he said it. Dude, IT'S ON TAPE!! Ever hear of CSPAN?
These House Republicans are the most juvenile, petty bunch of liars we have seen in the chamber in a very, very long time. It's an absolute disgrace. Sessions needs to publicly apologize not just to McGovern, but to the entire nation. Remember, this little tirade of his happened on the taxpayers' dime, and now he's lying to the taxpayers by saying it never happened. Pathetic.
We get the government we deserve, people. Stop electing nitwits like Sessions and things will get better.
Just another one of the traitors, tool of the RGA, patsy for the 1%, too stupid to see he's shooting himself in the foot.
Why is it that liberals always start off their comments with insults? Is that the only way to get people to look at them? It's ridiculous how many times I have to see this. And all the while you are saying absolutely nothing? If this representative was drinking, then whose fault is that? It certainly wasn't the Republicans fault. Stop trying to pass the blame when your representatives can't even show up to work sober. When are the democrats going to stop acting like they are above the law?
Ever wonder why House and Senate lunch breaks for party caucuses are always at least 2 - 3 hours long in the middle of the day, when they just checked in for work at 10 a.m?
What does John Boehner have to do with this discussion? He wasn't in the story. He wasn't on the committee. I don't think he was in the building when this happened. Is this just some liberal Democrat trying to shift the story to justify a drunk Jim McGovern? Sounds like it to me. Maybe your time would be better spent trying to get McGovern to stop showing up drunk to work!
The Duke of Orange is an alcoholic. He leads the House and his party has no room to criticize anyone else until they dump his orange arse.
Definitive answer:
He is Speaker - the one in charge - so if his people (Sessions) brings up the possibility members are drinking on the job - which personally I agree should be addressed - it is up to Boehner to address the accusation and impliment controls.
Fact is, given HIS history and behavior, Boehner will be the last one to allow breathalyzers before each session....
"If the shoe fits..." indeed.
Lets do it Mr. Boehner! And YOU and Mr. Sessions be first in line for an alcohol test.
Please!
So Democrats are supposed to tolerate false allegations during an election year?
Just suck it up......that's what Republicans always want is for Democrats to lay down and not fight back.
Guess what, times have changed.
Why do you always start off your comment with LIES?
Stating a fact about someone isn't an insult! Everything Kris said (above) is true. Grow the hell up, will ya?
I have heard that some are saying that some have accused Sessions of licking Grover Norquist's junk.
I would hope that the voters of this country look long and hard at the misguided politicans we have today in congress..and also at those wishing for that possition. All of congress is over paid. All of congress is on the take in one form or the other..lobbyist have already made sure of that one for us all. Also..we need term limits..and..no retirement funding for those in congress. With term limits they can easily get their old jobs back...if they actually had one. Also..no politican should be able to serve on any committee that they have stok in..or their friends have stock in...no insider tips should be used or allowed in any form by congress..if caught...jail time should be applied. We need honesty in our government again...which we have not hard form way too many years.
The problem is that teabaggers can not read. The article does state that McGovern was not drunk and Sessions back-tracked the next day without apologizing for the blatant lie.
Sure enough, here come the teabaggers (unhappy and roadrep) posting on here as if what Sessions said was true. Sessions, if anything, knows how to work his low-information base and knows that, if he makes an inflamatory comment against someone, these teabaggers will take it as the God's honest truth without any proof.
Funny how the Republicans keep forgetting that two of their people could not put their cocktails down and leave the party to get SWORN IN TO CONGRESS!! Does anyone know how much the cost ran for the slobbering Speaker to re-do all that was done by the two little party-boys before they were legally sworn in? Why weren't criminal charges brought against these men for conducting official government business when not a part of the government? Can any dumb drunk walk into a Republican led committee off the street and vote?
If someone can be accused of being drunk for passionately disagreeing with Sessions, than the entire country must be tanked.
TO: roadrep who wrote:
He's the drunk.
And your right none of The Republicans ever "got drunk" on the job.
"W's" daughter used to get drunk as a Skunk and have Sex party's with her boy friend in the Rose Garden !
You will go along with anything but talking about Obama record, wouldn't you?
Maybe talk the historical record.
The only time austerity has ever worked is during boom years. When applied to recessions, it has always, withut fail, contributed to deeper recssions.
Glass-Steagall protected the economy since the Great Depression. When removed, the next downturn turned into the Great Recession.
Dodd-Frank is a poor substitute, but it is better than nothing, which is the current Republican proposal.
Q-What do you get when you see Obama in a Reagan mask?
A- You get a Reagan that has lower tax rates than the Original Reagan.
Q- What do you get when you see Obama in a Gingrich mask?
A- The same health care plan.
There is a reason that Progressives are very disappointed with Obama. It is the same reasons Conservatives hate him, He is a moderate.
Who cares???
The voters in the Democrats county. You think that false allegations can't do damage?
What if on the floor it was the other way around and McGovern had said that Sessions was distracted due to a gay affair he was having.
I'll agree with "who cares"? A drunken legislator (state or federal - democrat, republican or other) is hardly news. It has been standard procedure for centuries. The partisan public accusations are somewhat unusual. A more shocking headline would be "Congressman Shows Up for Work Sober".
How do you think we get the alcohol laws we have? Why do you think the legislatures and courts (fed and state) came down hard on tobacco but not alcohol? It's because the lawyers who make the laws nearly all drink, many to excess !! Alcohol does far more damage to society than tobacco ever did. Why do we see stories about a lush killing someone while behind the wheel, after 20+ DUI's? Because the judges who rule on cases (using the soft laws) are also mostly bottle suckers.
The tobacco companies/retailers were class-action sued and taxed heavily by the states to recover the costs of health care and other expenses. Why haven't they gone after the deep pockets of brewers, distillers, vintners, importers, distributors, retailers, and ultimately drinkers? No one can deny the health care costs, damage and injury from accidents (highway, industrial, home), injuries from abuse and fights, lost work time, lost family time, etc. etc. that are directly and easily attributed to excessive drink. Ever hear of anyone starting a nasty fight because they smoked too many cigarettes too quickly?
Eric - In that case, he would not be the first Republican to be leading a double life!
Spot on mailman8!!!!!
John Boner is a alcoholic !
So typical! Says something, then denies it, where's the story (this is nothing more than a broken record)...
I would be drunk all the time if I had to work with these Rebulican A$$Holes.
hahaha, I knew someone would beat me to it! Agree 100%!
Angry Alaskan: Spoken like someone who is a govt. bastard.
I get the feeling you probably are, anyway.
Not even close, Maria!
OK, strike the 'govt' part.
Unhappy. Is unhappy and wants e1 else to be unhappy. Nope don't think so. Learn to spell while you're at it too. lol
If I had to sit in DC and listen to BOTH parties bicker like little kids I would drink too..
Heck Boehner looks like he is plastered most of the time. Bloodshot eyes and all.
Boehner and Jan Brewar Governor of AZ could drink a Carribean tourist island dry in hours..........
He is. And he is a sick man who cannot perform his duties....REHAB!
boehner eyes are red because he's always crying like a big baby....what a cry-baby, waaa-waaa-waaa
And he DROOLS!!!! Ugh.......
jorjan, Boehner is not a member of the Kennedy family. Now there is a man's drinking family.
Democrats just borrow and try to pay their selves out of debt thats enought to make one drink to much.
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Boehner and Jan Brewar Governor of AZ could drink a Carribean tourist island dry in hours..........
Ain't that the truth; I'm an AZ resident and I have yet to hear gov. Bimbo Brewer interviewed that she doesn't sound like she's had one too many, stayed up all night drinking and smoking. There aren't too many brain cells left in that bleached blonde head of hers. Not a damn thing she's done since she's been in office that hasn't hurt thousands of Arizonans in some way or other. I'm thinking one day they'll find her sitting upright in her office, dead...stewed to the gills.
Well Joe66, did you ever ask where your Republican friends got the money to pay for the first 4 years of their Regime change wars? it sure wasn't from BUDGETED money FOR the WAR. Couldn't it have been Social Security Trust Funds? Medicare Trust Funds? Highway Traffic Trust Funds?
Chuck, the funds were authorized by Continuing Resolutions - authority to borrow. After each resolution was passed, someone in the Bush Administration had to put a call into Beijing for another little loan.
Joe66, Do you think it is time to brush up on the English language?
Sorry Joe...must be early for you...
Democrats want to tax and spend...its republicans who want to borrow and spend
This bill should include line item funding requested by DOD a 50% cut in overseas ficilities and personnel. 50% reduction in 0-1 thru 0-10 grades. remove all the bull @!$%# restrictions, directives, and your piss ant attitude in religious ans sociol reforms otherwise i expect you to outlaw servicesmen and facilities and health systems for living togather, children out of wed lock, food stamps and medicaid for service members and dependent, drug testing, and remove them from federal retirement system. they get only social security. must live on base, no part time employment.
So. i don't approve of the gay life style. however i feel and the bible and the constitution provide them with the same rights as the rest of us. the pastors, bishops, and janitors oh yes and those hypocritical polititions need to read and study more. they will be judge by the god they worship. Christianity is like others religions. they are being destroyed by the few socalled spiritual hypocrisy within, who try to pass their beleafs on the world for fame, power and profit. So, god created a man and then created a woman to be his compaion. said populate the earth, now less be reasonable does this not make all mankind brothers and sisters and cousins. if so you have violated the law of the state on incest. if then you do not beleave in the bible , koran, jewish or any other religios text. then you are where your pastors and religious leaders are... my favorite bible book is Job.
either change it or veto
Democrats just borrow and try to pay their selves out of debt thats enought to make one drink to much.
Unlike Republicans who give up tax revenue through tax breaks, spend even more money and run up the national debt hoping that voodoo economics will pull their ass out of the fire? There's a reason to drink, and evidence points at George W. doing just that...
Who's evidence? Your own trove?
I am betting that the only way to try and understand or comprehend anything a republican says requires one to be either drunk or stoned out of their mind. Wouldn't be surprised if more of them are doing it.
Actually its the other way around. Democrats only focus on one side of things. What's next? Because of this will the govt. gets to sponsor mandated healthcare to treat alcoholics at taxpayers expense?
You just described out entire political situation (both parties) AND our media. Good job!!
Unhappy you are correct, the dems focus on one thing, and that would be....the truth.
And speaking of mandates, the 1979 bill to attempt to create a national health insurance program contained the same mandate language that Obama's bill does. The '79 bill, by the way was introduced by Sen. Bob Dole and was broadly supported by Republicans in both the House and Senate.
HUH UH.......sayeth the Pubs. Did not....no, no, no we didn't!! LOL Good post Bruce!!
A politician from Massachusetts drinking alcohol?? Boy, I find that hard to believe.
My guess is they all have alcohol in theif offices and who gives a rats azz.
Mr.Sessions is a cheap shot guy. (I meant to put an 'I' for the 'O' in the word 'shot')
I agree, if I had to work with the republicans, I'd have to have a few drinks, just to put up with their crap. All of the GOPER'S should be voted out of office. Boner is at the top of the list to be voted out.
We are sick of working with democrats here in NY. It's like a teenager whose parent's of forced to go on welfare because of his/her credit card debt. How much do you democrats really have to spend in order for you to say "enough"?
Unhappy, Republicans have been sick of working with anyone but themselves for years. Now they have another party that speaks their language. The Tea Party. Two parties hanging out in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.
Chuck...now ..now....don't drag the people in the institutions down to the repubs and Tea party level. Have pity on them, they at least don't know what they are doing. On the other hand, repubs and tea party know they are against their own self interests and still proceed compulsive like to cut off their noses!
Unhappy, someone forgot to tell Bush and Cheney that wars are expensive. They also didn't think about 4,500 Americans who went to Iraq and came home in coffins. Very expensive indeed.
If I had to deal with the GoP every day, I'd drink too and heavily...
Contrary to popular belief, Alcohol destroys brain cells. Yet Most politicians drink.
Contrary to popular belief, Marijuana grows brain cells. Yet Most politicians are for the status quo of prohibition.
What's wrong with this picture?
Politicians need not be concerned with destruction of their brain cells.
Alcohol kills the weakest brain cells first, so most drinking politicians only have the strongest cells left.
Who cares! Grant had problems. It was said of Joe McCarthy that until he appeared sober on an occasion, nobody realised he drank.
Joe was 10X crazier when sober. The country breathed a sigh of relief when he died of liver cirrhosis.
Except Joe McCarthy was correct in most of his revelations of members of the communist party. He was not crazy, his situation was just a forerunner to what a biased media can do to anyone they do not agree with.
Listening to a Republican speak would cause anyone to drink! During the Repulbican primaries sales of alcohol when up! LOL!
The Republican then went home to his hot tub filled with 6, twelve year old boys and they laughed and drank until the wee hours of the morning. It was all in the name of "family values" and he didn't reciprocate any of the oral so he still considers himself a non gay and a strong christian leader!
See, its just crap like that, that makes democrats look like bastards!@@@@@
I think Never3putts' god is the "State". Every good fellow-traveler - useful idiot, "tool" of the left worships that false god.
Geeze unhappy...You're no fun. You are too easily ticked off!!
I would remind you that birthers and the Rev. Wright screed make you cons.... not only makes you guys look like bung holes but in fact,,,you people really are A-holes!!
Stick around unhappy...it's going to get even worse and then you can rereg as REALLLLY unhappy. LOLOL
It's Liberal Idiots who make these kind of cracks that should show people what the Democratic Party is made of and the direction they are driving the Country. I hope for your sake that the unrest in this country doesn't end up the way it looks to be going.
Why...because they speak the truth about GOPs like Larry Craig and Tom Foley, among many others? Speaking honestly always seems to piss you off. Grow up!
why don't we look into Boy George and coke?
GOP always resort to name calling and character assassination when they cant win a debate with facts. Which is pretty much all the time.
Oh my....the DNC, Liberal left live by demeaning and name calling....
Read the posts here each day....
Hate, Anger and Name Calling......The Liberal Way!
And since you "think" that's the case, you're here for what?
Judging by what the Dems think is vote worthy booze is probably nothing compared to what they were on to vote for Obamacare. They must be crackheads.
clever. Not!
Dems could follow the Pugs lead and have their head up their cracks!! Just sayin John Galt..........
The Kennedy boys would be scrathing their heads........and.....what's wrong with drinking and law making combined? Hic.....perfectly doable....hic :)
Now the shoe is on the other foot and the Dems are steaming mad Two years ago it was the other way around as the Dems rammed through anything and everything they wanted. What a laugh. Cry babies one and all.
JB...you are right...dang dems ramming through those bills to protect consumers from credit card preditors and excessive interest charges.........how dare they protect citizens from the banksters?
From the looks of the government spending spree, the dems screwed America and gave fortunes to their friends in the banking industry as well as bogus green industries.
"YOU LIE"....does that ring a bell John Galt? Me thinks you speak with a forked tongue.......IMHO
hey Sessions..whats wrong with you??/ You called this lib dem prck out why didn't you punch him in the face..he was drunk cause these lib dems arn't smart enough to fight this hard!! You chicken sh*t!!!
But John, the good Republican Senator denies calling anyone out. So who's the chicken sh*t?
Sessions is in the House of Representatives and not the Senate. He's a Congressman, not a Senator. Read a book not written by Barack Obama (whose literary agents published a promotional pamphlet in '91 claiming Obama to be Kenyan born LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) and learn the difference.
Hmm, and apparently Acton & Dyson had kept that tidbit of, "mis-information," on their website up to 2007. Why wouldn't then Senator Obama not have corrected this inaccurate information for over a decade, until he decided to run for president?
"BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller."
T is posting Brietbart crap. Please ignore.
OMG RUN FOR AN UNKNOWN LOCATION!!! Birther alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Idiots!!!!
T stand for Twaddle.
What "invented" nonsense.
This is so typical of both parties. I for one am very glad to see that they're at eachothers throats. They all party on our dime and can't get the job done. If one of us drank on the job we'd be $hit canned pronto. Maybe we should demand breathilizer and drug tests.
Diane -
Obviously your reading ability is poor.
It's AGAIN a republican making trouble and blocking progress.
You must be a republican who prefers denial instead of trusting your own eyes.