Republican Pete Sessions Held Fundraisers at Burlesque Clubs

Look at all the fun things you find when you start poking around. Background here from Down With Tyranny.

What they've turned up is a couple of fundraisers held by Texas Rep. Pete Sessions a while back. He currently runs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the top fundraising and candidate recruitment operation for House Republicans.

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At worst, one of the fundraisers, held in 2007, was at a Vegas burlesque club, Ivan Kane's Forty Deuce. FEC papers show Pete PAC spent $5,378 at the burlesque club, which also that year hosted porn-star Jenna Jameson's 33rd birthday party.

Our old pal Mary Ann Akers who writes the Sleuth column for the Washington Post's website also wrote about another more low key event at a racy Vegas club called Tao held in February 2009.

Is there a theme here? Democrats snicker yes and plan to make it a campaign issue in the fall. "Considering that NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions himself and Michael Steele's RNC have chosen to use strip clubs as their fundraising base, Republican congressional candidates can expect to be asked if they will accept stripper raised money from either," says a Democratic strategist.

VIDEO- Pete Sessions Agrees That ‘Deem And Pass’ Is Legitimate

By GottaLaff



Petey concedes:

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is now the second Republican to reluctantly admit that “deem and pass” is a legitimate procedure that Republicans have used is the passed.

Hyp. O. Crites:

As Norm Orenstein reminds us, “in the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier used the self-executing rule more than 35 times, and was no stranger to the concept of “deem and pass.”

The Party of NOthing... because that's all they've got. All they can do is try to gum up the works (while contradicting themselves), because on substance:

Rep. Pete Sessions: Obama Trying to Kill Jobs

By GottaLaff

Yes, President Obama wants nothing more than to gain even more power by ruining the lives of as many Americans as he can. That's exactly the kind of community-organizing, liberal Marxist Commie Socialist abortionist he is, and I am a devout follower. Can a civil war be far behind?*

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) -- head of the House Republican campaign effort -- cited rising unemployment in asserting that the Obama administration intended to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices" as part of a "divide and conquer" strategy to consolidate power, reports the New York Times.

Sessions said Mr. Obama's agenda was "intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it."

*Jumping the snark.

Update:

NRCC spokesperson Ken Spain stood by Sessions' comment in an e-mail to the Plum Line's Greg Sargent, claiming that he was "was simply reiterating what many members of the Democratic Party have echoed over the past several weeks, which is that one-party dominance in Washington has further damaged our economy and undercut our country’s free enterprise system."

Quote of the Day

Gaw, this is another one whose mental capacity I wonder about. Via Taegan.

"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. 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 front line 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."

-- Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in an interview with The Hotline.

First Read: "Imagine what Drudge would do if a Democrat said this."