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Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General, Capping Bitter Battle
NY Times ^
| Feb. 8, 2017
| ERIC LICHTBLAU and MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Posted on 02/08/2017 7:11:05 PM PST by Innovative
Senator Jeff Sessions was confirmed on Wednesday as President Trump’s attorney general, capping a bitter and racially charged nomination battle that crested with the procedural silencing of a leading Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Mr. Sessions, an Alabama Republican, survived a near-party-line vote, 52 to 47, in the latest sign of the extreme partisanship at play as Mr. Trump strains to install his cabinet. No Republicans broke ranks in their support of a colleague who will become the nation’s top law enforcement official after two decades in the Senate.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; sessions; trump
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Excellent!
Republicans can accomplish a lot if they stick together.
To: Innovative
OK Jeff. Get to work. We’ve got a swamp to drain!
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:12:46 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: P-Marlowe
I hope Sen Manchin didn’t find his tires slashed and flat for being the only honorable Dem
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:14:17 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
To: Innovative
Arrest them all for Pizzagate and child rape and treason
and the murder of an Ambassador and a score of witnesses.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:15:30 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Innovative
Tonight we struck TRAVIS county serving the sanctuary city of Austin and its communist bitch Sheriff with warrants for illegal aliens in the jail custody to remove them to ICE, This has only begun!! GET THEM OUT OF MY COUNTRY NOW!! If she resists, she will be arrested for OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE IMO!! I am filled with such glee!!
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:16:28 PM PST
by
WENDLE
(Trump RULES IMMIGRATION!! Sanctuary crap will STOP or no money. ZERO!!)
To: Innovative
So many indictments...
So much voter fraud to investigate...
So much corruption to prosecute ...
He needs to start at 0700 tomorrow!
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:16:52 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Innovative
Oh, Hillary - you are going to be handcuffed soon! HA!
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:17:38 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: Innovative
Will be interesting to see his priorities in the next few weeks.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:18:26 PM PST
by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: WENDLE
I hope all the sanctuary cities receive the same warrants tomorrow.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:20:43 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: P-Marlowe
he can start with that idiotic immigration ban from the libtard judge
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:20:48 PM PST
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
To: Innovative
Shameful that after serving 20 years in the US Senate that none of his Democrat colleagues supported him. Just absolutely despicable partisanship on display from the Democrat party. One can only hope that it costs them dearly...
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:21:38 PM PST
by
sargon
("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
To: P-Marlowe
Wow, this will REALLY be Hope and Change.
To: sargon
They are now the party of “NO”.
To: sargon
Now get our new Senator and get Gorush installed.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:24:32 PM PST
by
arrogantsob
(Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
To: sargon
8 to 10 seats would be poetic justice...
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:26:12 PM PST
by
taildragger
(Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
To: Innovative
We now know what we’re up against. The Democrats are playing the only card they have: Delay and Obfuscate.
Trump is playing it smart. Let them throw their tantrums, because in the end we will prevail. Let the immigration EO make it’s way thru the court system because in the end, we will prevail. And in the end, the Democrats will fail.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:26:39 PM PST
by
bigbob
(We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
To: sargon
I believe the ND Democrat did break ranks.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:27:15 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
To: BigEdLB
Was it Manchin or the ND Democrat?
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:28:06 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
To: Innovative
I never thought I would see the day Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is my Attorney General.....
AND I AM BEYOND THRILLED!
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:28:13 PM PST
by
Guenevere
(If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
To: sargon
“Shameful”
AMEN!!!!!
I wish Graham and McCain would call them out.
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posted on
02/08/2017 7:28:37 PM PST
by
alternatives?
(Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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