Posted on 10/22/2017 4:50:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Oct 22nd, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Majority Leader; White House budget director Mick Mulvaney; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders; California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Linda Graham, R-S.C.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Mulvaney; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Gold Star father Khizr Khan.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
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I respectfully disagree. I didn’t jump off the bandwagon without a lot of thought.
I wish I could share your optimism.
In any case, time will tell. You’re right when you say it has only been 8 months, but that can also be a time to get things done, too.
The longer one waits, the more inertia sets in.
Meanwhile President Trump takes all the heat while all the rest pile on and hurl stones and arrows into him.
Jeff, if truly loyal, can say and do things to help him. He needs to act.
Soon.
Also as to prosecuting Hillary's manifold crimes, Trump also sent signals, and practically stated, that she had suffered enough and telegraphed he would not or should not sic the dogs on her. So if Sessions shared those thoughts, how do we expect him to go against his boss's comments, and possibly his own conscience and prosecutoral discretion to pursue a hugely contested case against Clinton. He'd face not only pure hell that James Starr did, but also an avalanche of media opprobrium for being an out of control zealot persecutor. And if he took the safer step of naming a special prosecutor to look into Uranium 1 etc., then he might select a dud who caves like Comey did.
Some of it is self-inflicted, I agree.
However, the entire press corps, NeverTrumpers and Obama/Clinton post operatives are trying hard to undo the will of the people. There was an election, Trump won and Hillary lost. And yes, we used the Electoral College vote, same one we’ve used since 1787.
Despite the Left and Hillary Clinton being upset at the loss, it has always been “Better luck NEXT election”. But this time, they actively and are still actively trying to take down whom we elected.
The entire Mueller special counsel “investigation” is designed to find a crime where there isn’t oen, and people are being screwed over to get a win... Like Paul Manafort and his family.
Who will be Mueller’s Scooter Libby? Whoever it is, it is not fair, but without doing something now, Mueller will find one, if not Donald himself.
Moreover, now that we’ve learned the Mueller and Rosenstein were up to their necks in a fraud and scam involving the Russians, national security and cash for the Clinton Foundation, everything Mueller is doing can be seen as getting rid of witnesses and documents that might implicate him and the others; not seeking who colluded with Russia over our election.
Yet the AG isn’t even mentioning it.
And now that “The Hill” story is out, wouldn’t this give even more emphasis to the current Mueller gang to hurry up with the shredders and Grand Jury charges, no-knock raids and other intimidation?
Time is of the essence here.
I watched Sessions before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he didn’t appear to have much urgency to do anything.
Forgive me for thinking it’s all Kabuki theater for us commoners.
You state my fears on Sessions lack of action better than I can myself. I really doubt that actions under the radar so to speak, would ever get very far in the justice department without leakers galore. Ergo I conclude that Jeff is frozen with a huge target in his sights.
I prefer that Sessions stays. A real conservative as a successor won’t stand a chance of being confirmed. I really like Kris Kobach, but he would be killed by the GOPe along with the Dems.
Jason Chaffetz just set some sort of modern record for flip-floppery
"I will not defend or endorse @realDonaldTrump, but I am voting for him. HRC is that bad. HRC is bad for the USA."
Sessions spent 12 years in DOJ as a prosecutor. From 1981 to 1993, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. He was also the AG of Alabama. And he sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee for over a decade overseeing the operations of DOJ and the FBI. I would say he was well-qualified for the job.
Here are what some of the enemies of Jeff Sessions are saying (go to the articles for the specific accomplishments):
Jeff Sessions has done more damage in his first 100 days than his boss
US attorney general Jeff Sessions may not be part of the biggest investigation in the Department of Justice, but as he reaches 100 days in office, there’s little doubt that he’s had an important impact on the American criminal-justice system—potentially for years to come.
Despite the political turmoil of the Trump administration, Sessions has moved to reverse a tide of progressive reform and to fulfill his boss’s law-and-order agenda, a collection of concepts loosely articulated during the 2016 presidential campaign. Sessions’ biggest actions, from undermining federal oversight of police departments to cracking down on undocumented immigrants, have worried a wide array of lawmakers, law-enforcement leaders, advocates and scientists.
“Of all the cabinet members, maybe even the president, he has to this point had the most significant impact as to policy changes,” said Jesselyn McCurdy, the deputy director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office told Quartz.
Unlike his boss, Sessions is delivering on what he has promised—sometimes on causes he has championed for decades.
“There’s been a great bipartisan movement by organizations on the ground and members of Congress to reform the federal criminal-justice system, based on successes that have happened in the states, but the leader of opposition to that reform was Jeff Sessions, as a senator from Alabama,” McCurdy said. “These are all things that [Sessions], as a criminal justice reform opponent, had on his radar already.
McCurdy said Sessions was “definitely” living up to the ACLU’s concerns, and in some areas, fulfilling the worst-case scenarios.
Jeff Sessions ushers in 'Trump era' at the Justice Department
In just over two months, Sessions has proved to be a central figure in effectuating Trump's vision for America in tangible ways on immigration, crime, police reform and civil rights.
And while the White House searches for new messaging to frame what Trump has accomplished in the first 100 days in office, Sessions has single-handedly managed to make several significant domestic policy changes -- from pressing pause on implementing police reforms to withdrawing Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools.
His radical transformation of the Justice Department's role is no accident.
Many of the changes Sessions has made thus far track a familiar principle of federalism: the notion that the federal government's powers are limited and it can't coerce states into action. In other words, the federal government should get out of the states' way.
Sessions' critics worry that he is well on his way to undoing many of the major progressive achievements of his predecessors, often by withdrawing from court cases or previous directives that fail to align with his views. Yet Trump supporters cheered Sessions on during the presidential campaign when he said, "the American people are not happy with their government."
Now that Sessions is the nation's top law enforcement officer, his defenders and critics universally agree: he's been busy fulfilling the President's campaign promises and he's just getting started.
Kabar,
That’s all great stuff, and I hope—indeed I want—it to continue.
Donald Trump was given four years by the American people, but there are forces—the Swamp, Deep State, Obama’s and Clinton’s—who want to deny us the four years we’ve given him.
All of that progress you cite with Sessions won’t matter if this unholy alliance of Swamp, Deep State, and democrats prevails.
Therefore, Jeff needs to move faster, and directly at these powers. The politics be damned, things are otherwise underfoot that could do real harm.
He should announce a freeze on the Mueller Special Counsel actions, and a review at this time, and also launch an immediate and separate special counsel to investigate the Uranium One scandal, and ensure the Mueller investigation has not been destroying evidence.
What is the metric you are using to determine how fast he is moving? Sessions is acting the way an AG is supposed to behave. He doesn't need PR and bluster to accomplish his objectives. He is transforming DOJ back to what it should be after 8 terrible years under Obama. It takes a methodical, disciplined approach in a government bureaucracy.
He should announce a freeze on the Mueller Special Counsel actions, and a review at this time, and also launch an immediate and separate special counsel to investigate the Uranium One scandal, and ensure the Mueller investigation has not been destroying evidence.
Trump can fire Mueller if he wants. Rosenstein is Mueller's boss, not Sessions. Remember the Saturday Night Massacre? The MSM would have the country in an uproar and the GOPe would be denouncing Sessions and Trump. The Trump-Nixon comparisons would abound. The specter of a constitutional crisis would result.
We don't need another special counsel. They are a bad idea because they develop a momentum all of their own. They must justify their existence by finding some "lawbreakers." DOJ and the FBI can investigate Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation using RICO laws at a minimum.
The appointment of a Special "Scoundrel" by Rosenstein was a big mistake compounded by the fact that it was Mueller. Comey's firing triggered events that make it look like a setup. As bad as things seem, the investigation could be a blessing in disguise as the more we learn about the fetid underbelly of the swamp, the greater the possibility for change. The great Russian collusion narrative will backfire and it could take down a lot of people. The MSM can no longer control the news. There's a blue dress in there somewhere.
Can I please field this one?
Because half of "our party" (the RINOs) are actually RATs.
By whom....RAT bull dykes?
Well, since you know him, have you tried to contact him and find out (off the record) what the hell is going on? We could use a little reassurance out here that the Sanctuary City officials will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (and why not).
Is there a big-ass case being built against the biggest pile of executive branch treason and corruption in the history of the US? ( and why the hell not)
Well...the law.
I wish! I don’t know him enough to be able to call him up! And I don’t know his email since he left the Senate...
But I would ask exactly your question, if I could.
Certainly makes sense but seems he is neglecting the big issues we have.
What issues are you referring to?
We dodged a bullet
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Other Motor Symptons -
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