Pete Sessions On Meet The Press

[sce56]

Run time: 02:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLlSfgJQh4   Posted on YouTube: July 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: DemRapidResponse Views on YouTube: 18238   Posted on DU: July 20, 2010 By DU Member: sce56 Views on DU: 818

 
NRCC head can't name specifics on Republican agenda.

Democrats are gleefully passing around a video clip of Rep. Pete Sessions' (R-Tex.) appearance on "Meet The Press" this Sunday, and for good reason. Pressed repeatedly by host David Gregory to explain exactly what the GOP would do to cut the deficit -- should it regain congressional power -- the National Republican Congressional Committee chair stammered and offered platitudes:

"We need to live within our means."

"We need to make sure we read the bills."

"We are going to balance the budget, we should live within our means and we should read the bills and work with the American people."

"We need to make sure that as we look at all that we are spending in Washington D.C."

"We have to empower the free enterprise system."
Sessions was, as Gregory noted, dabbling in talking points; or, to distill it even further, just repeating the question in the form of an answer. (How are you going to balance the budget? We are going to balance the budget.)

"Tell me how you do it," a frustrated Gregory interjected. "Name a painful choice that Republicans are prepared to say we have to make?"

Sessions had none, save to hint that the policies he wanted to pursue were the ones tried by the previous administration. "We need to go back to the exact same agenda that is empowering the free enterprise system rather than diminishing it," he said.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The dude is an AIRHEAD.....Failed in Speed Thinking 204.88

Real Leaders have REAL ANSWERS

Pete has ZERO

[Ross K]

2. K&R

But I have some sympathy for ol' Jeff: As a kid, I sucked at dodgeball too! :evilgrin: