1st GOP RULES COMMITTEE MEETING IS A BUST!



 

... Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, "It's been said that, She's not crazy like a fox...she's just plain crazy!"

 

Is being an Eagle Scout really as qualified as being an experienced Supreme Court Litigator?

I cannot believe the US Representative that is the Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Pete Sessions (R-TX), is leading the law suit against President Obama. My disbelief is because this Republican representative is using as his legal credentials, that he was once an Eagle Scout...???

The man actually told his rules committee “I’m an Eagle Scout and I studied the merit badges that we took about governance, about cities, states, the national government.”

Sessions also said he had, “great professors when he studied political science at Southwestern University”. 

Oh, and don’t forget that his father was a judge and that he understood his fathers “love of the law”.

Well, I guess that settles it!  The suit against the president is over, done, and cast in cement……well, maybe only, wet cement.

Let’s also take into consideration the testimony of Ms. Elizabeth Price Foley. 

Ms. Foley is a law professor from Florida International University.  She testified that “the House would have an excellent chance of winning its lawsuit against Obama for delaying parts of Obamacare.”

However, this same Ms. Foley wrote an article only five months ago, arguing absolutely that these kind of delays “cannot be challenged in court.”

Even a professor that I have always respected, the George Washington University law professor, Jonathan Turley, testified for the Republicans, just as he did for them for Bill Clinton’s impeachment.  He also supported the suit’s concept of being legitimate.  But he lacked the confidence of the suit’s outcome.

The committee meeting went on for a very long time and Prof. Turley acknowledged that the Republican litigants are, “going to have a hard time in district court,” and that “many judges are hostile to giving Congress the legal standing to sue”.  Turley agreed that, “the president has the advantage on the standing.”  Turley wandered on and on and even quoted lines from the movie “Jerry Maguire” and “Richard the 3^rd,” and he noted his status as a “ Madisonian scholar”…?  The whole day was pretty bizarre and boring.

As a Democrat, my favorite part of the committee meeting was from Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY).  Ms. Slaughter is the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee.  She challenged the Republicans’ ridiculous law suit by reading a short section of “Alice in Wonderland”.  The one-sentence reading was, “Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” 

A long-time  Supreme Court litigator Walter Dellinger, also assisted as a witness for the Democrats as he quoted from the conservatives: John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist and Jack Goldsmith.  He stated how they were very skeptical about any congressional standing for suing the president.

To shoot back at the Dems, the Republicans then called on their kind of Mark Twain character for trying to make their very lame point. The Republican Texas Representative, Mr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) he played their Will Rogers character regarding the delaying of any parts of Obamacare. “I’m just a simple country doctor, not a constitutional lawyer, but I do understand due-dates.” This was the Texan’s “Ah shucks,” addition to the committee's testimony.

What is so ridiculous, is that this is the same law that the Republicans in the House voted 50 times to repeal.  And they are suing the president because Obama "delayed" a part of the same law they were trying so hard to repeal…..?

This only proves that it is really true.  These individuals really hate the fact that this black man not only beat them, he beat them twice….and by a very big margin.  The Republicans in DC will do anything, regardless of how it stalls helping the very American people they represent.  They are blind with rage to find something, anything, to besmirch this president’s legacy.

A Republican Representative from North Carolina, Ms. Virginia Foxx, (Of which, I can never understand how this crazy woman gets re-elected….?).  But his time she was the most sane Republican on the committee.  She stated that she wanted to use the “power of the purse” with a House bill to settle the dispute.  But she said Speaker Boehner had decided to use this more conventional approach because “when the laws pass the House, they also have to pass the Senate.”  And she knew that that the Democratic Leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, would never let a bill on this from the House get to the floor for a vote.

This strange meeting went on for over 4 hours and most of the seats eventually became very empty, but the litigator, Walter Dellinger, stated that he would keep talking, “until the last dog dies”.   But then another committee member mentioned that the last dog had, “died 2 hours ago”.

The chairman was not a happy Eagle Scout for his first rules committee meeting.

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