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n2doc

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Thu Jul 17, 2014, 10:14 AM Jul 2014

Merit Badges!

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.”

Merit badges! And his experience in the Boy Scouts isn’t the only thing that made Sessions a legal expert. He said he had “great professors” when he studied political science at Southwestern University. Also, Sessions told the panel, his father was a judge, and young Pete “understood his love of the law.”

See? The GOP lawsuit isn’t just a stunt to appease conservatives who would rather impeach Obama. It’s a serious legal case — Scout’s honor!

The chairman’s recitation of his constitutional credentials was just one of the things that turned Wednesday’s hearing into an amateur hour — or an amateur five hours.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-a-lawsuit-with-little-merit/2014/07/16/73dd7d2e-0d38-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html

I wish someone had yelled out "Badges! We don't need no stinking badges!"

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Merit Badges! (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2014 OP
does Pistol Pete have a merit badge for STOOPID and being a wholly owned subsidiary of the oil biz. hobbit709 Jul 2014 #1
We don't need no stinking badges! pinboy3niner Jul 2014 #2
I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger underpants Jul 2014 #3
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