This is the kind of idiot we elect here;

Sessions: GOP Insurgency "May Be Required"
February 5, 2009

Frustrated by a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democratic leaders, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said House Republicans -- who voted unanimously last week against the economic plan pushed by President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- will pitch a "positive, loyal opposition" to the proposal. The group, he added, should also "understand insurgency" in implementing efforts to offer alternatives.

"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. "And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -- I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] 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."

That agreement, as Sessions described it, involved a promise from Pelosi to preside over an "open, honest, ethical Congress." Obama, Sessions added, has pledged to diminish the political rhetoric in Washington and work in a bipartisan fashion.

"If they do not give us those options or opportunities then we will then become insurgency of a nature to where we do those things that are necessary to making sure the American public knows what we think the correct answer is," Sessions said during the 60-minute interview. "So we either work together, or we're going to find a way to get our message out."

When pressed to clarify, Sessions said he was not comparing the House Republican caucus to the Taliban, the Muslim fundamentalist group.

"I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency," Sessions said before being interrupted by an aide. The staffer said Sessions was trying to convey that the Republicans need to start thinking about how to act strategically from their perch in the minority.

Sessions' answer followed a question about the most effective strategy for Republicans in the lead up to the 2010 midterms. A Hotline editor asked if Republicans would have more leverage on the campaign trail by supporting the new president or posing, as Sessions suggested, as a "loyal opposition" working to hold back an onslaught of liberal Democratic policies.

Sessions and his staff said Democrats have shoved the bill through Congress without hearings or mark-ups, and they blamed Pelosi, not Obama, who has met with them, for the Republicans' unwillingness to back the economic stimulus bill.

"I think insurgency is a mindset and an attitude that we're going to have to search for and find ways to get our message out and to be prepared to see things for what they are, rather than trying to do something about them," Sessions said. "I think what's happened is that the line was drawn in the sand" by Pelosi.

Sessions said the GOP's 178 members stand by their votes against the bill.

"I don't think any one of our members today feels like they would take back that vote," he said. "... There's no remorse."

Asked to assess the political landscape for the midterms, Sessions suggested that the NRCC will back the best candidates in each district -- as opposed to targeting support to specific contests, as the group has done previously. He noted that Democrats hold seats in 83 districts that President Bush won in 2000 or 2004, showing that the GOP has opportunities, despite the party's losses in the last two cycles.

Sessions said he believes Republicans can take back the House.

"We believe our job is to aim to win the majority," Sessions said. "I've never aimed to come in second place."

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Well, at least it's refreshing to see that some republicans are willing to admit that they will behave like terrorists if they don't get their way rather than pretend to be patriotic Americans.
Obama might want to keep Gitmo open to receive these people, and maybe he should follow Bush's pre-emptive approach and just throw them all in there now before they actually do anything.

I thought they voted for Bush.

Does this mean that y'all really voted for Biden?

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How embarrassing. I heard one of Sessions "handlers" had to get him out of camera and audio range, lest he insert his other foot in his already occupied mouth. Texas..........what can I tell you?