Taliban an inspiration to GOP representative

[Equipoise]

Insurgency baby, insurgency.

In an interview with National Journal’s Hotline, Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas suggested his party could follow the model of the Taliban in its legislative battles.

“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said. “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.”

Sessions said the “Taliban” approach was a reaction to a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democrats.

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Obama has bent over backwards to reach out to Republicans and they’ve spurned him. Now they have a new plan? Look up to the Taliban? Embrace insurgency at a time of national crisis? Obstruct at all costs? Who IS this guy? Who ARE these people? Why do they hate America? Where’s Homeland Security and the Patriot Act when you need them? Can you imagine a Democrat saying something like that? There would be a roar from Republicans on the airwaves so deafening they’d hear it in China. And they’d go on and on and on and on and on about the outrage of it.

I liked this last bit:

MSNBC suggests that Sessions could have chosen a better historical reference. “Wow, we can think of plenty of other examples of insurgencies (American Revolution, Indian resistance to Great Britain), but the Taliban?”

Democratic Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi has yet to formulate a counterinsurgency strategy to deal with this rising threat.