I don't have to try and preach to the choir here; let the GOP make it clear in their own words. They learned from the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember this from Rep Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Frustrated by a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democratic leaders, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said House Republicans -- who voted unanimously last week against the economic plan pushed by President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- will pitch a "positive, loyal opposition" to the proposal. The group, he added, should also "understand insurgency" in implementing efforts to offer alternatives.
"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. "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."
If Sessions is right then Michele Bachman (R-MN) is planting roadside bombs and detinating IED's by some of her way over the top rhetoric (or is it rhetoric?). I don't want to sound like I am spewing the paranoia that is coming from the Right Wing Noise Machine; no I am just illustrating one example of how Sessions statement has come to fruition.
Here's Michele off the hook:
Bachmann then began to talk about her role as Representative at the nation’s Capitol. Explaining the resources available at her U.S. House website which enable her to communicate what is happening in D.C. to the public, such as her Bachmann Bulletin, Bachmann Blog, and links to her Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace pages, the Congresswoman said, "I’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington."
We have to call out the Sessions rallying cry for what it was. He was right on the mark. The GOP has no power after being shellacked the last 2 election cycles, so it is engaged in assymetrical warfare. This is a strategy of a marginalized and much weaker adversary as is the case of the GOP.
See where you can point to inidents of insurgent activities in the Right Wing universe since the Sessions rare moment of truth.
In the meantime I vote for this guy as the new head of the RNC