In a conversation with Hotline, the Dallas Republican said that the Republicans need to act like an insurgency. Then he entered into a comparison that got the better of him:
“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.”
When asked to clarify:
“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.
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Good lord.
How did he ever get elected? How does he manage to put on a tie without strangling himself or others near him?
Nothing good could come out of a statement like that.
knuckle. head.
That costs you extra, Congress.
I take back every word I wrote about exec-speech.
Ahh, now I see that you do if fact invoke East Coast sarcasm! I’m glad I figured this out 36 hours later. But yes, Pete Sessions is a dolt.
Does anyone know of a link to Pete’s “greatest hits”? It seems like this bone-head spits out enough goodness that surely there is enough for a thin Aggie Joke Book-sized compendium?
My God, it almost makes me reconsider my vote for him over Martin Frost. I hope someone gave him a swift kick in the giblets (wasn’t sure if “nuts” was a banned word).
Don’t blame me. I voted for his opponent.
In the history of dumb Pete Sessions’ quotes, this new one stands with this one from last year:
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Sessions: That’s right, we do a Las Vegas fundraiser every year and not only raise money, but see Las Vegas. It’s a beautiful town.
Henn: Forty Deuce is a strip club.
Sessions: You know, I’ve never seen that. It is what I would call a burlesque show where there’s a woman who comes out and has a dress on… Uh, she never gets naked. There’s no nudity, there’s no nudity in there.
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Pete Sessions is a symbol of today’s GOP: inept, foolish, bankrupt, and who believe their twin tasks on this Earth are the enrichment of the rich and the immiserating of the rest of us.
With Pete Sessions leading the House Republican campaigns and the “Big John” leading the Senate Republican campaigns their future is very bright — it the light is coming down the tunnel they’re in.
Bill, agree with you 100% on Jeb. I have long hoped for someone like Jeb to take on Sessions in a primary.
Best first 12 comments I’ve seen in a post in a long time. Since Brandon stole my ‘dolt’, I’ll call him a tool.
Not a brain cell working.
Palin-Sessions 2012!
Dear VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica’sWorstPresident,
I thought Obama lived in Washington D.C.
Don’t the Taliban take their opponents out by hanging them in a public square? Don’t they also take independent-minded women and stone them to death? Um yeaaaah, I’m guessing that comparing the Republicans to the Taliban might not have…um, legs, Mr. Sessions.
The problem isn’t that he says things like this. The problem is he thinks that way. If you think he sucks off liberals, can you imagine what he does with Mitch and Lindsey?
Let me get this straight:
First, Pete promises in 1996 not to accept his Congressional pay if the budget was not balanced then went back on his word.
Then, Pete is reported to have been responsible for the Dallas Cowboys building their stadium in Arlington because he didn’t want a stadium election in Dallas County bringing out Southern Sector (Democrat) voters in his district.
Then, Pete Sessions takes over the Dallas County Republican Party and insists that they focus on his reelection at the expense of other races, pay his consultants and, well, you know how the past two elections have turned out.
Then, Pete votes with liberal Democrats in Congress on issues of national security.
Then, Pete recruits a candidate to run against fellow Republican Ralph Hall.
Then, Pete holds a fundraiser at a Vegas strip club.
Now, Pete compares the GOP to the Taliban.
What a guy!
Jeb, PLEASE move into his district and beat him! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.
I would not fault Pete for recruiting someone to run against Ralph Hall, since Ralph is really a conservative Democrat.
It is no wonder the GOP is getting it’s clock cleaned nationwide, Vegas strip clubs, voting for the bailout TWICE and now adopting Taliban tactics as political strategy!
Has any one told President Bush that this is his Congressman? I bet he is giddy as a school girl after hearing about the latest “Peter Principle.”
Karl Rove help us! Please Karl we need you!
I don’t know why everyone is shocked and surprised. This is the kind of insane thinking that got us to where America is today, which is a crumpled shell of its former greatness.
Congratulations, you got what you voted for with Sessions.
Julie,
You are right! With all the crazy ideas, votes and antics of people like Sessions, Pelosi, Kennedy, Reid, etc., our country has suffered greatly. And four years from now we can start getting it back on track!
I don’t think he said anything too farfetched did he? GoP and the Taliban have a lot in common.
Oops, Pete got caught speaking the truth about his party.
Misogyny, racism, religious fanaticism, contempt for rule of law, and thuggery elevated as a moral ideal. Yes I give you today’s Republican Party.
If you disagree with me, you’re either a Macaca or Magic Negro(tm) Rush Limbaugh.
It’s only upsetting when an insider pulls back the curtain, and their enablers actually have to witness what they’ve supported.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story
I think Pete is absolutely right. The Republicans are just like us in nearly every way. No if they would just wear some nice turbans to help hide those ugly comb-overs.
Congress of the Cow, I’d go one further….moose-knuckle head.
Sessions is so stupid that he got caught stealing an opponent’s campaign signs:
http://dccc.org/blog/archives/tx_32_breaking_news_sessions_busted/
For this and other reasons, he has no business in Congress. But the People keep voting for him.