I am glad MSNBC's Rachel Maddowshamed out a congressman Friday who has long deserved to be shamed out. Sad thing for me is that he represents my district (TX-32).
Rachel did an extensive piece Friday on Pete Sessions' scheme to privatize Social Security. She explains Sessions' scheme as effectively as anyone can, but there's far more to hate about Taliban Pete than just his privatization plan.
(I'm trying to get the embedded link to Rachel's story. There is one YouTube post that had an interview with Cenk Uygur that was part of Rachel's piece, but I haven't seen anything on YouTube with the complete story Maddow did).
More below.
Sessions is not only wrong when it comes to his Social Security privatization scheme, he is wrong when it comes to his support of Paul Ryan's morally bankrupt plan to gut Medicare in favor of a voucher system while keeping in place the financially bankrupt Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent.
Here's part of what Taliban Pete's taxpayer-suport web site reports about the Ryan plan:
Congressman Sessions is encouraged by this common-sense budget plan that tackles our nation’s fiscal crisis head-on, recognizing that we must put an end to out-of-control spending to get our economy back on track.
What's so encouraging about a scheme that finances irresponsible tax cuts for those who don't need them at the expense of our most vulnerable citizens, particularly seniors?
Sessions' priorities are wrong for his district, state, and America. I hope Sessions finally gets the well-financed and supported opponent he has long deserved to force him to explain his corrupt stands without being able to sugar coat them behind misleading words like "job creators" to describe the richest 1 percent?
I hope the 2012 election forces Sessions to do far more than stop his using the phrase "Democrat party" to mock his opposition. I hope it forces him to understand how wrong and out of touch he has been as he is forced to defend his irresponsible actions and his spendthrift policies (whether he wants to admit it or not) when it comes to doling out tax breaks for the richest 1 percent.
Sessions' removal from office is long overdue, and I pray that an opponent is found quickly who will finally smoke Sessions out and put him on the defensive.