Posted on 07/25/2017 7:14:58 AM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is getting a bitter Washington lesson when he messes with Jeff Sessions – you don't pick a fight with one of the Senate's guys.
It's a lesson that could cost him politically in a Senate where he badly needs Republican support for his lengthy agenda, starting with healthcare on Tuesday.
"I don’t understand it. There’s no more honorable person I’ve ever met in my life than Jeff Sessions,” said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a close friend of Sessions and his wife. “The only person who is more upset with Trump about this than me, is my wife.”
Sessions spent 20 years in the Senate, winning a reputation for affability and party loyalty. He understood and doggedly practiced the code of what's been called the world's most exclusive club: You can disagree without being disagreeable, but you protect the institution and its members.
Trump, clearly, doesn’t play by those rules.
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We all know that when Trump is nice, the Repubs still treat him poorly.
Trump has been left with no choice except kicking ass and taking names.
The President is in a quandary. Among the base, Sessions is generally popular. His recusal hurt, but he has moved forward with a lot of things that make the base happy. I think the President is trying to get Sessions to admit there’s not enough there to go forward on the Clintons. Trump knows that response will incense the base and they will solidly turn them against Sessions. That’s how I see this being played out.
I have a lot of respect for Senator Inofe but Senators changing their vote cuz Trump was mean to a member of their club?
How principled are they?
Sessions needs to fire DeepStater RosenKrantz and hire 10 assistants to doggedly clean house at Justice and initiate all sorts of law enforcement initiatives to MAGA.
Relentless positive action needs to commence.
Trump should be providing this “advice” to Sessions in private along with a date to show progress or be gone.
I’m not all that excited about Kid Rock if what I’ve heard is true. Someone sent me the quotes below.
“I don’t FaceTweet or whatever people do. ... I turn on my computer and look at porn a little bit, see what’s going on in the news, but that’s about it.” - Kid Rock
“I am no fan of abortion, but it’s not up to a man to tell a woman what to do.” - Kid Rock
“As an ordained minister I don’t look forward to marrying gay people, but I’m not opposed to it.” - Kid Rock
Of course, the Constitution gives the feds NO authority to overturn state anti-porn laws, anti-abortion laws or anti-gay marriage laws, so if this Kid Rock has half a brain, he would leave his personal views on abortion and marriage at the Congressional doorstep and start dismantling the unconstitutional 80% of the $4 trillion feds.
What does he know and hold dear about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Knowledge of and allegiance to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution should be the FIRST qualification for anyone who wants to be in Congress.
I find it amusing that people here cannot admit to the reality: Sessions will not carry out the prosecutorial priorities of his President.
Who knows what the reason(s) are.
And, he cannot, due to his recusal, provide legal shield to his President...nor even be his legal advocate.
Sessions has become a legal albatross and must be relieved.
They haven't done that since 1913.
Sessions helped Trump, the ultimate D.C. outsider, get elected but now wants to keep doing things the D.C. way. Sessions, though possibly a good man at heart, simply can’t keep up with Trump’s new way of operating. Sessions has been wearing his stripes too long to change them now. He just can’t make that leap.
All of Sessions’ experience tells him to lay off the Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT stuff. For whatever reason it’s a NO-GO area for the GOP. But not for Trump. He has no skin in any of the GOP’s games. Trump doesn’t have any political apple carts he’s been carefully stacking for years to trade for a retirement on K Street. Trump thinks like a CEO and Sessions has become an underperforming Division Manager. In Trump’s world that simply isn’t tolerated.
The only individuals being schooled are the DC establishment.
Go Donald. This is why we elected you.
You don't become "leader" of the senate GOP and exist in the DC cesspool for as long as Mitchie without being a swamp creature, and believe me, he is no friend of The President.
What? There is enough evidence to put the Clintons away. An investigation will only bring out more charges might just support treason or at least life in prison.
Very telling squeal from the Republican Party.....Obviously they want Sessions in place stalling any prosecution of their Democrat friends.
Good read on reality. To me Trump is going public to force the issue. Yes Sessions may seem to be hurt in the short term, but its about time the duplicity of the Senate is exposed and people are brought to justice.
Lois Lerner et al have skated, Bengahzi unanswered, voter fraud. All “ kabuki” theater to make us think that investigations have consequences, when in fact they are just used to run out the clock
I have to ask, what does The Great Recuser do all day now that he’s recused himself from doing his job? Non-politician, President Trump, can take the heat from the buffoons in the “mainstream liberal media”. Politicians like Sessions cannot.
Trump thinks like a CEO and Sessions has become an underperforming Division Manager. In Trump’s world that simply isn’t tolerated.
Great analogy
He’s so honorable but they still treated him lousy under oath rather than get their jobs done for the country. Don’t believe a word of it, they are all excuses.
Granted Sessions needs a “tuning up”, perhaps a kick start. He accepted the position of AG and if he cannot, or will not do the job, he needs to be replaced. The position is too important to be left adrift as there are NUMEROUS opportunities to bring the wrath of God down on the swamp dwellers. There are many, many who could and should face jail time. Get ‘er Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.
We can repeal the 17th at the next Constitutional convention.
After the civil war.
Let senator Inhofe’s wife get elected president, and then she can choose the attorney general. The attorney general, like any cabinet member, serves at the pleasure of the president.
2 term limits for all.
The Russia thing is real inconvenient, for sure. Would it have been any less so if AG Sessions were heading it? Meanwhile AG Sessions is doing some real good things on many of the issues the US faces. Another factor....President Trump needs Steve Miller writing his speeches. Those of us who became mesermized by the campaign have a strong suspicion that the great speeches, the ones that will be passed down through the ages, are written by him.
I'm a Deplorable. Check back on FR. I'm one of the very first ones to jump on the Trump Train soon after the announcement. But I'm gonna' not keep it to myself. I'm not sure President Trump can govern without AG Sessions and Steve Miller and Bannon nearby. I'm concerned that Trump may be listening to people who've consumed too much swamp water.
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