Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is apparently not agreeing with Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said in the New York Times on Monday that the Obama Administration was deliberately increasing unemployment and lowering stock prices, "intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it."

The Dallas Morning News asked Cornyn whether he agreed that Obama wants higher unemployment and other economic problems. "Absolutely not," said Cornyn.

"A lot of what he's doing is going to have disastrous consequences," Cornyn explained. "I'm very concerned about his policies, but I don't agree that it's intentional."

When asked for comment, NRCC spokesman Ken Spain pointed back to a Sessions statement from Monday: "I have said it once and I will say it again. Democrats are intent on passing an agenda that puts their liberal interests first, and the future of American jobs second. Despite their efforts to re-frame my comments, I was simply reiterating what many members of the Democratic Party have echoed over the past several weeks, which is that many of the so-called economic 'solutions' proposed by liberals in Washington either already have or have the potential to inflict further damage on our economy and undercut our country's free enterprise system."