Pete Sessions: Obama Hurting Economy To Consolidate Power

Rep. Pete Sessions, head of the House Republican committee tasked with electing more GOP members, has a unique theory as to why unemployment continues to rise: Obama wants to wipe out capitalism.

Deep into a New York Times item Monday about rising jobless numbers comes a theory that the Times gently refers to as an "argument" that "may indeed face an uphill fight."

Sessions told the Times that Obama's plan is to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices." By doing so, Obama "intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it" as part of a "divide and conquer" strategy to consolidate power.

The Times then follows with another understated gem: "Polls offer little evidence that Americans are prepared to accept those arguments."

So is Obama part of some communist sleeper cell intent on destroying America? For Sessions, it's nothing new to think of politics in terrorist terms -- only in the past Sessions has argued that the Republican Party ought to emulate terrorists, not that Obama already does.

The GOP, Sessions famously argued in February, ought to model its "insurgency" after the Taliban. "Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," he 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 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."

Asked to clarify if he was indeed suggesting House Republicans model themselves after the Taliban, he said: "I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency."

A Sessions spokesman didn't immediately return a call. An NRCC spokesman stood by the remark:

"The Chairman was simply reiterating what many members of the Democratic Party have echoed over the past several weeks, which is that one-party dominance in Washington has further damaged our economy and undercut our country's free enterprise system."

Ryan Grim is the author of the forthcoming book This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

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Comments

[liberalbug]

Man these guys are paranoid.

[StillIRise]

Agree.

[RenoSage]

The trouble with all these bellicose ideas is that there are those who will embrace them.
No assertion is too far out to challenge the belief of those who are vulnerable to those beliefs.
I wouldn't shrug off these statements as evidence of a deranged mind. He could be crazy like a fox.

[roads]

We now have no doubt. Everyone in the GOP is off their rocker. Do they really believe intelligent people believe this crap? LOL

[dcjdjay]

The GOP really is the gift that keeps giving, isn't it?

At least the Dems back in 1994 retreated to their den in defeat to lick their wounds instead of going on mad-cap rants. Gosh, who would have thought that the likes of Cynthia McKinney would appear sane when compared to the GOP's cast of clowns.

[ProudPrimate]

in her district?

[zeltar]

The GOP is trying to lower the nation's IQ and succeeding!

[Newsmonger]

Now that I have had time to think over Sessions' comment, it is making sense to me now.

This is the revise phycology at play here.

Think about for a second; it was the GOP tha opposed the Stimulus package, then Obama's budget; the Stimulus package was geared towards creating or saving about 2 millions jobs.

In order to disarm their opponents should they bring up the topic that the GOP are fostering unemployment; the GOP are out throwing the first shot. The way, the plan to push the Dem into a fefensive position instead of offensive.

First accuse your opponent of the sin you are guilty of such that, all with the hope of producing a soft landing.

[HHarvey]

This is definitely one of those WTF did he just say? moments.

[dessertsfirst]

They make this stuff up as they go!!
Amazing!

[4 Real]

Seems the more one hears from the GOP leadership, the more one is convinced they are in. sane.

[sueinmn]

Whats really wrong is the millions of Americans that fall for this crap! You take stupidity out of the stupid.

[sueinmn]

Beam me up Scotty! Hellllllll­llllllllo. These lunies just keep getting lunier!

[underoath]

This is one of the reasons why these guys didnt just lose an election they lost a generation!

[Annette truth teller08]

Meant to say (ridiculous) in my earlier post.

[Annette truth teller08]

This is just unbelievable and rediculous.

At the end of President Obama's (2nd) term, what are all these wingnuts going to say when the United States is still intact.
When our children are not in a concentration camp being Re-Educated.
When President Obama was never revealed to be the devil, or a secret terrorist?

What are they going to say? That he changed his mind.

[roads]

No, the GOP wingnuts will claim they made Obama change his mind.

[EvasDaddy]

Additionally, Michelle Obama's plan is to singlehandedly destroy the fashion industry by wearing whatever she damn well pleases.

The horror.

[sueinmn]

Well we know she has the right to bear or bare arms! LOL