Sessions takes credit for "Massachusetts Miracle"

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions has been conspicuously absent this Primary season, his last public appearance coming in late November at the Taiwanese-American Chamber of Commerce event where he turned in a not-so-thrilling speach as the guest of honor. That was the last time Sessions, who drew yours truly as a Primary challenger in the March 2nd Republican Party Primary, had been seen publicly.

That is, until he popped his head out from under his rock and took credit for the election of Scott Brown as U.S. Senator in the "Massachusetts Miracle." Prior to Brown's election, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which Sessions Chairs, was having significant trouble raising campaign cash for the U.S. House hopefuls the NRCC is assisting. But following Brown's election, the NRCC finds itself strangely flush with cash.

Unfortunately, nobody in the media saw fit to ask Sessions what his chances are of being re-elected to an 8th term to the U.S. House in November. Sessions, you might remember, was last seen screwing up the special election for the U.S. House seat from New York's 23rd Congressional District back in October. You remember the name Dede, don't you? Dede Scozzafava was the Republican candidate for whose campaign Sessions and the NRCC spent $900,000 in contributions only to see Scozzafava drop out of the race the weekend before the election, endorse the Democrat and wind up with only 6% of the vote.

Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News wrote, "After a year of lackluster fundraising, House Republicans are bouncing back, Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions said Wednesday, thanks to several mood-lifting wins for the party."

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Now, for Republicans to be even thinking this way shows off the complete out of touch nature of the national Republican Party. This election cycle is not about a shift back to Republicans. Will that Party be the beneficiary of the Tea Party movement's strict adherence to Conservative values? Yes, absolutely--and so the Party collectively needs to adopt Tea Partiers, come alongside them and offer any support they can.

But this isn't about Republicans. It is not.

For Rep. Sessions to have come out from under his rock of the previous two months just because there were cameras and reporters asking about the recent improvement in contributions to the NRCC is a mistake. The same questions about Rep. Sessions' own record continue to go unanswered. Those questions include why he supported the 2008 TARP Bailout, $6 TRILLION in Bush-era deficits, $1.6 million for a start-up blimp company and many other fiscal and ethical mis-steps.

Many Congressional Republicans responsible for the 2006 takeover of Congress by Democrats remain, and chief among those is Rep. Sessions. As I have said on numerous occassions, if we are about to shift back to Republican control of Congress we must first deal with those who are in charge of the Republican caucus.

And that means U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX 32).


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