One of them has come forward to identify himself and his cadre.

Jeff Pete Sessions, (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, answering a question from a National Journal Hotline editor:

"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 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 they do not give us those options or opportunities then we will then become insurgency of a nature to where we do those things that are necessary to making sure the American public knows what we think the correct answer is. So we either work together, or we're going to find a way to get our message out."

When pressed to clarify, Sessions said he was not comparing the House Republican caucus to the Taliban, the Muslim fundamentalist group.

"I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency," Sessions said before being interrupted by an aide.

And who does Sessions blame for the mediocre "stimulus" bill that made it through the House, the one that was watered down by removing health care provisions and loaded up with tax breaks to sooth the Republicans and BueDogs and still didn't attract a single R vote? That would be the evil Nancy Pelosi, who used her slim majority to pass the bill without letting the Republicans strip out everything but the tax cuts.

The Republicans know who their enemy is - Nancy Pelosi. Do Progressives know who our enemy is? Sessions and the Republicans are threatening to use the tactics of the Taliban to get their way, to destroy any slim hope of stopping the economic disaster we are speeding towards. If that doesn't define them as the enemy, I don't know what would.

Throw the BlueDogs on the pile as well. Steny Hoyer and Evan Bayh and that crowd are perfectly willing to join the Republicans to destroy the middle class and make everyone poor except for their rich buddies.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are not our enemies, and neither is Barack Obama. They aren't perfect, but we have real enemies to deal with; very unwise to take our focus off them.