US Rep. Pete Sessions: (TX-Taliban): "Republicans Are the New Taliban."

[furrbear]

Republican Pete Sessions said that the House Republicans are the new Taliban now. I kid you not..

That's when Texas Rep. Pete Sessions compared House Republicans to the Taliban, the fundamentalist Muslim terrorist group that has targeted U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Sessions' staff insists he wasn't lauding the Taliban's goals, only their tactics. See what you think:

Insurgency we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. 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 is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their front line 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.

At least he didn’t use a Nazi metaphor. Sessions should apologize immediately for this statement. How insane is it that Sessions identifies his own party with the group that housed Osama Bin Laden? I thought they wanted to catch Bin Laden, not be like him. Are the Taliban going to run ads now that say I want to be like Bin Laden? So the American Taliban (House Republicans) want President Obama to fail and they will act like the Taliban to do it. I saw the press asking Gibbs if Obama was dropping bipartisanship earlier today. When will the press ask the New Taliban why they want to be associated with our enemies in battle. This has been a big lesson for President Obama. May he learn it well.

Well, well, well. I always knew about the Bab'tis predilection for Jihad. Kind of apropos for a s'uth'n regional minority party.

Comments

[robearal.livejournal.com]

Well, in a way, the analogy is correct, but in a derogatory way, since they are both Rabid Right-Wing religious zealots that should not be in power.

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

It's a good metaphor. They are sort of like the Taliban with the addition of a tragic comic note.

[popebuck1.livejournal.com]

All this time, they've been talking nasty about the Taliban (and al Qaeda, and Iran's mullahs) - but only because they were jealous. Those guys actually GET to execute the nonbelievers and all their political enemies.