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Created: Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 12:43:05 PM CDT
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Pete Sessions compares being female to being a smoker

by: CoolOnion

Sat Nov 07, 2009 at 09:32:26 AM CST

(Thanks for the post. We are adding Raggio to our Act Blue Page right now - promoted by admin)

x-posted at Sessions Watch and Daily Kos)

Despite repeated campaign promises to always be in the District on weekends, Pete Sessions is working overtime today to kill health care reform.

His latest outburst on the House floor drew "a burst of chatter" in the room, kind of like it does in bi-partisan settings here at home when Sessions gets stuck for an answer and says the first thing that comes to mind, usually a tangent about "socialism" or "Nancy Pelosi."

In his latest gaffe, Pete Sessions defended the insurance industry's practice of charging higher rates to women, comparing the practice to charging higher rates for smokers.  Transcript over the jump...

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Change TX-32, Change the Nation

by: CoolOnion

Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 14:48:02 PM CDT

(Excellent submission and a good looking candidate! - promoted by Curtis Abbey)

Michele Bachmann is batshit crazy.  So is Pete Sessions (TX-32), who said once that if the GOP wanted a good role model for "insurgency," they need look no further than the Taliban. Yes, the Taliban. Pete Sessions actually thinks the GOP should become like the Taliban.

So, besides being batshit crazy, what does Pete Sessions have to do with Michele Bachmann?

Pete Sessions is chair of the NRCC, and he's raised a lot of money for Michele Bachmann.  And he's not going to stop there--his goal is to pack Congress with more batshit crazies just like them.

Want to stop him?  Support his Democratic Party opponent, Grier Raggio.  Read more about Grier over the jump...

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