YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM THE TALIBAN
Feb. 6th, 2009 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogOr, “Great Moments In Very Poor Analogies”
ITEM [via Wonkette]: Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, says House Republicans arguing against the economic stimulus bill should fight it by starting an insurgency – and use the Taliban as a role model for starting one.
Afterwards, he spends the rest of the interview saying, “No no, that’s not what I meant by ‘insurgency’ or ‘Taliban’.”
When pressed to clarify, Sessions said he was not comparing the House Republican caucus to the Taliban, the Muslim fundamentalist group. “I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency."
You’d think that if a Republican, of all creatures, had to go with a politically charged word like “insurgency”, he could at least pick an insurgency that America is not currently at war with. Or at least one that doesn't invite comparisons to religious fundamentalists who want to create a theocracy through intimidation and wholesale violence.
And the GOP still can’t understand how they could have possibly lost the election to the guy who has no experience.
Hey Mr Taliban,
This is dF
ITEM [via Wonkette]: Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, says House Republicans arguing against the economic stimulus bill should fight it by starting an insurgency – and use the Taliban as a role model for starting one.
Afterwards, he spends the rest of the interview saying, “No no, that’s not what I meant by ‘insurgency’ or ‘Taliban’.”
"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 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."
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When pressed to clarify, Sessions said he was not comparing the House Republican caucus to the Taliban, the Muslim fundamentalist group. “I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency."
You’d think that if a Republican, of all creatures, had to go with a politically charged word like “insurgency”, he could at least pick an insurgency that America is not currently at war with. Or at least one that doesn't invite comparisons to religious fundamentalists who want to create a theocracy through intimidation and wholesale violence.
And the GOP still can’t understand how they could have possibly lost the election to the guy who has no experience.
Hey Mr Taliban,
This is dF
