Pete Sessions Accuses Jim McGovern Of Drinking On The Job

Politico:

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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Comments

[citizen of the universe]

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.

[rigmoten]

03:09 PM on 05/18/2012

The headline wrongly identifies Boehner as a democrat.

[XtfrM2]

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.

[citizen of the universe]

03:25 PM on 05/18/2012

LOL

[Freddie Krueger]

01:36 PM on 05/18/2012

Max Baucus was plastered on the Senate floor during healthcare speeches.

[Freddie Krueger]

01:33 PM on 05/18/2012

Ted Kennedy would be proud.

[annyp]

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.

[trussia1]

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.

[CCee]

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.

[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.

[VenezuelanRedneck]

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!

[imusintheevening]

12:28 PM on 05/18/2012

He must be taking after the leadership of the House.

[rydebulls]

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.

[citizen of the universe]

03:27 PM on 05/18/2012

I agree. I think he is tanning to cover his liver failure

[asiclilpup]

12:18 PM on 05/18/2012

Say the dirtiness in public and apologize in private, but the intended damage is already done.

[Gidster]

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.