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Up in smoke (Corey Gardner R-CO blocks key Justice Dept. posts)
powerlineblog.com ^ | 2/12/18 | Paul Mirengoff

Posted on 02/13/2018 3:05:07 PM PST by cotton1706

I wrote here about the void in the Trump/Sessions, where four nominees for Assistant Attorney General positions are being held up due to Senate inaction. The four positions are crucial ones: Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division; Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division; and Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division.

Why can’t these nominees get a vote? Apparently, it’s because of marijuana. Sen. Cory Gardner is vexed with Attorney General Sessions over enforcement of Federal marijuana laws in Colorado.

Alfred Regnery, citing just one of the four major gaps at the Justice Department, points out the absurdity of the situation:

There is no permanent presidential appointee at the Justice Department in charge of combating terrorism because a Republican senator has put discretionary federal marijuana enforcement above U.S. national security in his priorities.

No matter how one feels about the dispute between Sessions and Gardner over enforcement of federal marijuana laws in Colorado, it is the height of irresponsibility to block the administration from staffing key positions at the DOJ over this matter. As Christian Adams has illustrated, the absence of presidential appointees at the Assistant Attorney General level leaves left-wing Obama holdovers with enormous sway at the Justice Department. Sen. Gardner’s priorities are grossly out of whack.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: corygardner; doj; drugs; elections; gardner; marijuana; pos
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To: cotton1706

Colorado is a Rat State now. Very few conservatives left and Zero Republicans. All are RINOs now.


21 posted on 02/13/2018 4:10:27 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: dadfly

Idiotic Senate “rules” or “understandings” will be the death of us. This is just another example of a filibuster and, like it, extra-constitutional.

I have seen no evidence that filibusters were approved of by the writers of the Constitution. They definitely violate the charge of advice and consent given the Senate in the Constitution.


22 posted on 02/13/2018 4:12:02 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: John S Mosby

“Gardner is OWNED by the stoner morons. “

You don’t know what you’re talking about. He’s a RINO that’s getting paid. The stoners don’t care.


23 posted on 02/13/2018 4:12:58 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Lumper20

Soros was a kid during the Holocaust and did not work with or for the Nasties. You are spreading a myth.


24 posted on 02/13/2018 4:14:06 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: dljordan

Wrongo, bub. You know ANY CO cannabis millionaires? Guess what, cash talks to ole corey who is indeed a “rino” nevertheless. Far out, man.


25 posted on 02/13/2018 4:15:07 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: arrogantsob

should have been more specific. stoner moron cannabis biz owners... online and off and of course the “medical” bull crap artists and their “dispensaries”. Sold to libs for all for tax revenue, same pitch as in CA, and net result is street price goes up, and not taxable goods. And ancillary crime— well talk to the Sheriffs and the state police. Quite vocal about it. Cannabis biz millionaires offer “cash” per these LE and Attorneys General (don’t try asking Kamala Harris, she’s one of them).


26 posted on 02/13/2018 4:19:53 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: arrogantsob

i hope at least that the big pot-o-money behind this guy gets exposed.


27 posted on 02/13/2018 4:23:43 PM PST by dadfly
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To: GreyFriar

He already knows that; he just doesn’t give a sh!t.
He firmly believes that the dopers will help to re-elect him when he comes up for re-election.
This is what happens when States legalize drugs.
The politicians know they have to have the dope crowd in their pocket.


28 posted on 02/13/2018 4:29:48 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Lumper20

I hold those that take his $$$$ and do his bidding, just as much accountable. $ORO$ knows the weakness of the many, and the many have been drawn to his $$$ like moths to a flame.


29 posted on 02/13/2018 4:29:58 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: GreyFriar

“Someone needs to take Senator Gardner out behind the woodshed and give him an explanation that his ‘hobby horse’ issue is being detrimental to getting rid of the Democrapt corrupt holdovers in the DOJ OUT”

One could say the same thing about sessions and pot


30 posted on 02/13/2018 4:46:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: snarkytart
SSDD

Buy another ticket for the political Punch and Judy puppet show!

31 posted on 02/13/2018 5:11:50 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: laplata; MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; bravo whiskey; Carley; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


32 posted on 02/13/2018 5:39:51 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

We have got to primary this POS out of office!


33 posted on 02/13/2018 5:49:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Where is the Trump/Russia collusion memo? ... Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?)
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To: GreyFriar

I’m afraid it is Sessions with the crossed priorities, he’s more worried about the federal prohibition crusade than anything else. Glad to see a Senator sticking up for his State instead of kowtowing to parties anyway...


34 posted on 02/13/2018 7:11:00 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: arrogantsob

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=43876


35 posted on 02/14/2018 7:07:32 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: Just mythoughts

His dollars target the poorest and the progressives.


36 posted on 02/14/2018 7:10:17 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: arrogantsob

This is from Soros’ own mouth. It is not in the first minute or two where George talks of working with a man who confiscated property/money from the Jews. Soros’ father was named Schwartz. His father changed his name.
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/proof-george-soros-nazi-past-finally-comes-light-discovery-forgotten-interview/


37 posted on 02/14/2018 7:31:40 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: John S Mosby

I wonder how they are going to keep organized crime out of this market. It seems like a natural for them to chase the licensed dealers out of business.


38 posted on 02/14/2018 12:26:46 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Lumper20

There is no way that Soros “protector” would keep him from the Nazis if he were a Nazis. This interview reveals a lot about him, none the less.

He must be a stone genius to have made the money he made and to achieve the political successes he has. Do we have anyone like this on our side?


39 posted on 02/14/2018 12:35:11 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

Soros runs his own mouth bragging about what he did in 1944. I say the man is pure evil. The Jews in Europe before WWII, especially those in Germany, Austria, Hungary etc. were the industrialists/real wealth. If you or I had even 10% of all that cash/other assets that the Jewish business types had, we’d be very wealthy. My father took us to Dachau in 1957 or 58. We saw the brick walls with incinerators in them that were used to burn the Jew’s bodies. The gas chamber rooms/areas were not pleasant. My old man rode in there during WWII as the first Signal Corps officer of Patton’s, and; he had a private collection of photos in a desk in our house. I saw that pack when I was 15 or so. They made every dead VC/NVA who my yards had blown away in combat look like they were killed with respect. The skeleton like bodies of the survivors they freed is a lasting memory from those photos. I recall him talking with other senior officers years later how they ordered healthy looking types to roll up their sleeves. Basically some of the Nazis types tried to escape by putting on concentration camp duds. They did kill some of these hard core Nazi SS guards.


40 posted on 02/14/2018 2:10:18 PM PST by Lumper20
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