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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.20/1943 - Release Date: 02/10/09 07:20:00