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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 ...
Being well liked has nothing to do with it. Sessions is not doing his job.
Is there any sign of significant dissatisfaction with Sasse among Republicans in Nebraska?
“Mueller is going to issue an impeachment report to congress.”
Impeachment for what? And to what possible affect? Congress, if nothing else, values its worthless hide and recoils from images of hanging from lampposts.
I am so sorry about Sue Collins, everyone.
She really is an idiot, and has never TRULY been a Republican.
She is a huge embarrassment to me.
She looks like she hasn’t got two brain cells to rub together, and she DOESN’T!
She also has a pretty nasty vocabulary when the cameras are not on her.
I can’t stand her!
That is a very prescient viewpoint you have there. Sure be a shame if something happened to it.
FUBS, FUSC..
I'm SICK of this assault on Trump but I have to keep reminding myself that THE PEOPLE WHO BRING US THE NEWS WORK FOR THE PEOPLE TRYING TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP!
If the DOJ was TRULY "independent", there's a LONG LIST of DemonCraps who'd be in FEDERAL PRISON ALREADY!!!:
Huma Abedin
Anthony Weiner
Cheryl Mills
Susan Rice
Samantha Power
Loretta Lynch
James Comey
Robert Mueller
Peter Strzok
Lisa Page
Sally Yates
Andrew McCabe
Paul Combetta
Bryan Pagliano
Lois Lerner
John Koskinen
Rod Rosenstein
Bruce Ohr
Nellie Ohr
FELONS, ALL. To name only a few.
” Maine is a mini-$hit hole state anyway.”
No, it is NOT!
The state itself is breathtakingly beautiful!
We need to get these two nincompoops defeated!
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton (Tarmac boy)
Plenty. We are pissed
warns, I just love it, warns! oooo Im scared!
warns, I just love it, warns! oooo Im scared!
Collins votes with the Trump Agenda 78.9% of the time. The other Senator from Maine, King (I-ME), votes with the Trump Agenda 46.1% of the time. A drop of 32.8% means an extra vote lost on one of every 3 bills.
Source: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
Now, Collins IS the 2nd-lowest Pubbie on the list... but she is still quite a bit higher than the top Dem (Manchin D-WV 60.5%).
FYI... Sasse (R-NE) = 86.7% (8th-lowest among 51 GOP Senators), Fischer (R-NE) = 92.1% (the median Republican, #26 of 51).
I submit you are creating a fantasy to make yourself feel better.
“Giuliani Drops MOAB on AWOL Jeff Sessions: If There Is Any Justice Why Is Hillary Payment to Fusion GPS Not Under Investigation?”
What stops Sessions from that?
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Sasse and Collins. Those are the last people I would ask for rational advice on important Republican issues.
Glad to hear it. Maybe a good challenger and successor to Sasse will emerge, if one is not already known out there.
Presumably this can wait until after the midterms but alternatively he could just keep firing people until he found someone down in the org chart who wasn’t trying to take him down.
[ Is it just me or does this president get threatened a lot by his own party? I can’t remember a single time, not ever, when president Obama was dictated to, or ordered to not do something. I don’t recall a single creep in the senate warning Obama NOT to send billions of dollars to Iran and yet this president is NOT even allowed to fire an incompetent who he appointed in the first place.
Collins and Sasse? Who the heck are they? ]
A RINO and a kiddie fiddler.
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