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Pete Sessions Accuses Jim McGovern Of Drinking On The Job

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One congressman accused another of drinking on the job in the midst of a tense exchange Wednesday night over whether the House would debate an amendment aimed at bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close.

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One congressman accused another of drinking on the job in the midst of a tense exchange Wednesday night over whether the House would debate an amendment aimed at bringing the war in Afghanistan to a c...
One congressman accused another of drinking on the job in the midst of a tense exchange Wednesday night over whether the House would debate an amendment aimed at bringing the war in Afghanistan to a c...
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
citizen of the universe
Look! A Shepards Beak Whale
03:28 PM on 05/18/2012
HA! If Pete Sessions wants to know the signs of a drinker, just ask the staff person picked to "shadow" the Speaker of the House today.
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
rigmoten
RELEASE THE TAXES
03:09 PM on 05/18/2012
The headline wrongly identifies Boehner as a democrat.
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XtfrM2
Home to the best hyperbole in the world.
02:44 PM on 05/18/2012
Drinking on the job? What about Boe.hner? That dr.unk hasn't shown up at work so.ber for decades. If I so much as had alcohol on my breath at work I'd be canned.
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Freddie Krueger
Liberalism is bad for America
01:36 PM on 05/18/2012
Max Baucus was plastered on the Senate floor during healthcare speeches.
Freddie Krueger
Liberalism is bad for America
01:33 PM on 05/18/2012
Ted Kennedy would be proud.
annyp
A Canuck, eh!
01:10 PM on 05/18/2012
I thought for a minute he was talking about John B. A couple of years ago John answered a question when he was on the tipsy side, in such a postiive matter, the reporter was shocked. The next day Michael Steel retracted what he said.
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trussia1
kids out of the pool, it's the adult swim
12:52 PM on 05/18/2012
Gee whiz, all McGovern had to do was point his finger at Boehner, where it's more likely to be true.
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CCee
All Equal Under God.
12:48 PM on 05/18/2012
If boozing on the job was strictly verboten, here in Arizona, Janet Brewer (nee Janet Drinkwine) would have lost her job the minute she used her position of leadership to escape charges of DUI.
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TheAntiOkie
12:40 PM on 05/18/2012
Drug and alcohol testing for all elected national officials.

That'll rid us of the Bohner instantly.
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VenezuelanRedneck
Heading left at the speed of light
12:31 PM on 05/18/2012
This happened after Boehner asked him for a couple of hits off his flask...Sessions, you one big hypocrite!
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imusintheevening
With,without,who'll deny it's whatthe fights about
12:28 PM on 05/18/2012
He must be taking after the leadership of the House.
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rydebulls
US citizen living and working in Oz
12:26 PM on 05/18/2012
Boehner drinks heavily at lunch, and after "work" heads to the same bar and drinks all night on a regular basis; he often is STILL drunk when he comes in the next morning. His tears are always do to being drunk, his slurring and bloodshot eyes tell more of the tale. I would venture his yellow orange coloring is due to his liver failing.
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citizen of the universe
Look! A Shepards Beak Whale
03:27 PM on 05/18/2012
I agree. I think he is tanning to cover his liver failure
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asiclilpup
Tax the rich Feed the Poor.
12:18 PM on 05/18/2012
Say the dirtiness in public and apologize in private, but the intended damage is already done.
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Gidster
Not so much Liberal as I am anti evil.
12:04 PM on 05/18/2012
Sessions later stated he did not believe "cast a stone"...

Only an angry leprechaun like Sessions could believe that accusing a colleague of being drunk on the job, is not a personal attack....

However, can you imagine the poutrage if McGovern had implied that Sessions was drinking on the job?

And there in sharp relief, is the hypocrisy that is the Republican double standard.