Sessions is a lousy speaker, and I’ve seen him perform very poorly in Supreme Court nomination hearings of the Judiciary Committee. It’s hard to avoid the impression — I’d love to be corrected on this — that the man just isn’t very bright. However, he is definitely a solid conservative, and has definitely been strong on this immigration bill. We owe Senator Sessions a debt of gratitude.
Sessions is brilliant. You may have a Southern bias.
Sessions is very bright indeed, he’s simply a gentlemanly southern speaker. And I’ve seen him perform outstandingly at Judiciary nomination hearings. He’s the one who apologized to Alito’s wife, I believe, after the dems trashed Judge Alito.
Not bright? You’re kidding, I hope.
“It’s hard to avoid the impression — I’d love to be corrected on this — that the man just isn’t very bright.”
I have to disagree. Having been born and raised in the South, I have seen many men like him.
Understatement and slow speaking is a deliberate and disarming facade they adopt.
He is exactly the kind of lawyer that you don’t want to oppose in court. You think you’re doing fine until he says checkmate, and you realize that you are boxed in from six different directions.
To folks that are not from the South, men like this appear to be not so bright and they often underestimated them, much to their chagrin.
He is literally the *only* Senator to go point-by-point through the Shamnesty Bill to unveil its flaws and deceptions.
Yesterday he was literally laughing when talking about the "fine" which makes the bill "not an amnesty".
For the first time I've heard anywhere, he explained that the $5,000 "fine" (of which only $1,000 is due upon Z visa application, and the remainder 8 years later upon permanent residence application), is actually on the installment plan.
Sessions was chuckling as he noted that the fine is actually a $200 payment due on Z visa application, and that most Z visa holders would then be instantly eligible for the $2,000 Earned Income Tax Credit. "Pay $200 to get a $2,000 tax refund? I wish I could get that deal."
I wish Sessions was my Senator, rather than RINO Warner.
He was an excellent AG for the state of Alabama.