ahar...@earthlink.net
Me too - I could just puke!
My Lord, just when I think they can't sink any lower. How is it that some
people can condemn a man for not wearing a flag pin, or a woman for tearfully
saying she's really truly proud of this country for the first time, yet spew
such hatred and vitriol? I've listened to McCain/Palin try to call Obama a
terrorist, a Muslim, and a socialist...I've suffered through that bigot
Limbaugh uttering his I hope he fails statement (something that would have
gotten a Dem pilloried for uttering)...I've watched as Boehner and his cronies
have been combative and disrespectful from day one.
How the hell can people who recently called those of us who opposed the Iraqi
invasion traitor, who deemed every move by Bush something from the will of
God, who couched the entire Middle East conflict in terms of Good and Evil,
allow this kind of talk. The hypocricy and malice behind these people makes me
ill...
[ The Dallas Morning News - February 6, 2009]
Sessions' call for GOP 'insurgency' draws fire
12:00 AM CST on Friday, February 6, 2009
By LAURA ISENSEE / The Dallas Morning News
lisen...@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON – The Republicans are taking a page from the Taliban's book. So
says one of their own leaders.
Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions, the leader of the GOP's House campaign arm,
compared the party to the terrorist-supporting Afghan group in an interview
with the Hotline, a Washington political newsletter. He was trying to describe
the Republicans' strategy for the 2010 midterm elections.
Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,
Sessions said during the 60-minute sitdown. And that is that they went about
systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire
processes.
He continued: I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. ...
I'm saying an example of how you go about [it] is to change a person from their
messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to
understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House
leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.
Neither Sessions' congressional office or the GOP House campaign committee
offered any immediate comment. Sessions' Democratic counterpart called the
comments shocking.
Sessions should put partisanship aside and join our fight to urgently turn
our economy around and get Americans working again, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of
Maryland said in a written statement.
In the past, comparisons of conservative Republicans to the Islamic
fundamentalist Taliban have sparked outrage. It may be a first, though, for a
politician to invoke the comparison on his own colleagues.
But Sessions has been known to get a little carried away in taking on the
other party, too. Last fall at a GOP rally, the congressman taunted a noisy
Democratic interloper: Aren't you glad your mommy and daddy take care of you?
You couldn't hold a job if you had to.
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