Earlier this week, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) told the New York Times that the Obama administration intended to “‘diminish employment and diminish stock prices‘ as part of a ‘divide and conquer’ strategy to consolidate power.’” He added that Obama’s agenda was “intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it.” Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) rejected Session’s conspiracy theory:
“I don’t know where he’s coming from on it,” Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday. “I’d like some sort of clarification about what he meant.”
Cornyn explicitly rejected the idea that Obama wants higher unemployment, lower stock prices and general economic malaise. “Absolutely not,” Cornyn told Texas reporters. [...]
“A lot of what he’s doing is going to have disastrous consequences,” Cornyn said. “I’m very concerned about his policies, but I don’t agree that it’s intentional.”
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