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Rep. Pete Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman who led Wednesdays hearing on Republicans plans to sue President Obama, presented the legal credentials that have put him in this position of responsibility.
Im 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 isnt 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 isnt just a stunt to appease conservatives who would rather impeach Obama. Its a serious legal case Scouts honor!
The chairmans recitation of his constitutional credentials was just one of the things that turned Wednesdays hearing into an amateur hour or an amateur five hours.
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I wish someone had yelled out "Badges! We don't need no stinking badges!"
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