Posted on 08/24/2018 6:09:30 PM PDT by SMGFan
Republicans say confirming a replacement would be a problem
Republican senators grew increasingly vocal in their warnings to President Donald Trump if he fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, including threats not to vote for a replacement.
Sen. Ben Sasse came to the floor Thursday afternoon to read into the Congressional Record the statement that Sessions, a former Alabama senator well-liked by his former colleagues, issued in response to criticism from Trump.
Sessions was highlighting the independence of the Justice Department, and Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, wanted it to be perfectly clear that he would have the attorney general’s back.
“Bizarrely, there are people in this body now talking like the attorney general will be fired, should be fired, I’m not sure how to interpret the comments of the last couple of hours,” Sasse said. “I would just like to say, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, and as a member of this body, I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he is executing his job, rather than choosing to act in a partisan hack.”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
As are the dem derps and all their little apparatchiks.
Sessions is set up as the Derp State hero, poster boy for impartiality, and is disconnected from Oval Office influence.
Interesting.
Almost as if it's part of some kind of plan.
I wonder.....nah.
FIRE SESSIONS THE SLEEPY KEEBLER ELF!!
Hahahahahaha.
ThankQ for playing your part, FR anti-Sessions cult members. Apreesh.
signed,
The Donald, Qanon, and Bagster.
Bagster
If Sessions had ANY honor at all, he’d resign. His false claim that he didn’t want to politicize the DOJ is a joke. The entire F’n place is nothing but politics.
Sessions should have been fired a long time ago if truth be told......
“Collins and Sasse? Who the heck are they?”
Collins I know about. But who is Sasse?
Sessions should just resign.
I hope there is a conservative in Nebraska who has a chance to defeat Sasse in the primaries in 2020.
For once the betraying jackasses aren’t from Arizona.
Those two are almost gone from the Senate!
Sasse is now contributing to the greatest political hoax ever conceived and that is both Russia and Trump fixed the election. Sasse contributes to the diminishing of our Constitution! For the sacred right of our vote, Sasse, like Mueller are acting as goons for the DNC, and destroying it.
Who is he helping? He is helping Russia and the DNC because they want the same thing, the destruction of the greatest nation on Earth; America.
Exactly...Get a real bulldog in there and then watch Congress chomp at the bit to get someone appointed...
Ben Sasse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sasse#Donald_Trump
Not trustworthy, IMO. As for Collins, we already know about her.
Collins is a confirmed radical leftie. Sasse is new in the Senate and has shown himself to be extremely anti-Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sasse#Donald_Trump
So what do Sasse and Collins know and when did they know it?
Damn deep staters.
no rosenstein, no sessions, no comey, none of them are worth keeping, even if we have no intel left, and have to reform in a more manageable model..It is better to have no justice department than a corrupt one..!!!!
He didn't get the hint with Flake, Corker & Sanford
Let's make sure we see Sasse start crying when reelection comes & he decides not to run due to his low polling #'s!!!
Been Sissy (sorry, Asshole - er sorry to early and no coffee, yet Sasse, I meant) is a RINo, just like the Morons in Maine ...
Collins has always been a Dem in (R) clothing and Sasse, well he has a running feud with Sean Hannity who went of his way to endorse Sasse thinking he was a good ‘un.
Trump has been more of a Republican than most Repubs I could name.
LOL, sorry, my mistake my post was poorly written.
I know who both of these creatures are and I should have said, Who do THEY think they are?
and yes Sessions needs to resign.
Don’t be fooled...they ALL HATE HIM! Their Gig is UP!
They all hate him because he is not a card carrying member of the “club.” The club doesn’t invite just anyone in and Trump is too honest for them.
Swamp Critters circling the wagons for an impending fight.
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