LEONARD’S DIGEST

“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” - Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.)

Now some in the GOP compare themselves to the Taliban. If a Liberal had said that the right-wing blogasphere would have exploded. The Republican opposition is looking more like an insurgency then the ‘loyal opposition” one had hoped for. As Democrats attempt to repair an economy ravished by irresponsible republican deregulation all the fat cats can do is try and maneuver themselves into a better electoral position. Pathetic really. - Robert

Monday’s Washington Post has a story on the resurgent Republicans by Alec MacGillis and Perry Bacon Jr. The home-page headline was “GOP as an Insurgent Opposition.” It puts an off-putting GOP gaffe on the front page: “Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) suggested last week that the party is learning from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban, and the GOP these days does have the bravado of an insurgent band that has pulled together after a big defeat to carry off a quick, if not particularly damaging, raid on the powers that be.”

Sessions said what? The Writers over at the Think Progress blog leaped on this interview with National Journal’s Hotline last week:

“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.”