Forget Politics. This Battle Is Personal. [2006 hit piece on "Dummy" clinger Jeff Sessions]

Washington Post ^ | May 24, 2006 | Dana Milbank

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Alabama's Jeff Sessions sure knows how to nurse a grudge. Talking about his family earlier this year, the Republican senator recalled that "Lincoln killed one of them at Antietam."

(SNIP) A short, wiry man with protruding ears, Sessions has become the Lou Dobbs of the Senate. He argues his points not with the courtly Southern tones of the late senator Howell Heflin (D), his predecessor, but with the harsh twang of a country tough -- which, in a sense, he is. Sessions was one of just nine senators to oppose a ban on torture. He has raised objections about renewing the Voting Rights Act.

(SNIP) And if his current fight in the Senate appears unwinnable, Sessions also knows how to turn defeat into victory.

(SNIP) This may not be the best way to broaden the Republican appeal, but that's not Sessions's worry. "I'm beyond politics," he said yesterday. His opponents would readily agree.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

This is similar to what you see out of Rubio and CommieState's press releases.

Sessions was right about voting fraud, NAACP and ACLU 30 years ago.

[TexasCajun]

Jeff Sessions, original “Wacho-Bird”.

[Kenny500c]

Torture is rough but keep in mind it is not killing which is what the Islamists want to, and have done, to innocent Americans.

[Nifster]

I like Jeff and am happy that one of his guys is advising Trump

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I think Jefferson Sessions would make an excellent VP selection for POTUS Donald J Trump
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[Sioux-san]

I like Sessions- Substance over Style any day- one of the few left in Congess who is worthy of the oath he took to protect the Constitution. I would be a little surly myself surrounded by so many traitors.

[Mollypitcher1]

I agree1

[Parley Baer]

“I like Jeff and am happy that one of his guys is advising Trump”

I like Sessions myself. Good man.

[DoughtyOne]

Another endorsement for Sessions. Well, they’re lining up.

[Will88]

May, 2006, so written by Milbank as W's first big amnesty push got underway that caused a voter uprising like none that had been seen in DC for quite some time. Typical gutter journalism from the Post when someone dares to oppose their elitism and arrogance.

[iontheball]

You know you are right when you get this snarky reporting by the Washington Compost. Sessions is another straight talker like Trump. Pathological liars can't stand the truth.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I guess its bash Jeff Sessions day. One of the true good guys.

[blam]

"I guess its bash Jeff Sessions day. One of the true good guys."

It was just a matter of time.

A Judicial Nominee Rejected Due To Racial Insensitivity Has A Veto Over All Alabama Federal Judges

[Albion Wilde]

A short, wiry man with protruding ears...

Amazing. I've only seen Sessions once in person, and from a medium distance as he was giving a speech from a podium, but my impression of him was that he is modestly patrician and a patriot, speaks a truth that transcends his regional accent, and carries himself a great deal more gentlemanlike than Dana Milbank.

[Himyar]

Sessions is a classic Southern gentleman. He is and always been the real deal. That’s why he was unopposed in the last primary and general election. Truly a great patriot.

[wjr123]

Sessions is a much better man than Milbank.

[Steve_Seattle]

bank gives voice to his inner playground bully."A short, wiry man with protruding ears . . . "

Dana Milbank gives voice to his inner playground bully.

[TexasCajun]

If you took my "Wacko Bird" as a bash, you missed my point.

Remember,it was Juan MeCain, calling Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and the Conservative wing names for not following in line with him and other Rinos' to give Obama what he wanted.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes that’s true.