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Ben Sasse, Susan Collins Warn Trump About Firing Jeff Sessions
rollcall ^ | August 23, 2018

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.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maine; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: agsessions; alabama; bensasse; collins; deepstate; doj; jeffsessions; maine; nebraska; recused; rinos; sasse; sessions; speechimpediments; susancollins
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To: SMGFan

Being well liked has nothing to do with it. Sessions is not doing his job.


61 posted on 08/24/2018 7:09:39 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: MountainDad
Can't believe I voted for that RINO.

Is there any sign of significant dissatisfaction with Sasse among Republicans in Nebraska?

62 posted on 08/24/2018 7:11:37 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

“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.


63 posted on 08/24/2018 7:15:24 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SMGFan

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!


64 posted on 08/24/2018 7:24:40 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Bush League Republicans must become extinct before the Republic does.

That is a very prescient viewpoint you have there. Sure be a shame if something happened to it.

65 posted on 08/24/2018 7:26:22 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Bush League Republicans must become extinct before the Republic does.)
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To: SMGFan
With Republicans BETRAYING AMERICA'S CHOSEN PRESIDENT, who needs DemonCraps?

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.

66 posted on 08/24/2018 7:26:30 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: vette6387

” 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!


67 posted on 08/24/2018 7:27:10 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Yikes, ADD:

Hillary Clinton

Bill Clinton (Tarmac boy)

68 posted on 08/24/2018 7:27:49 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Will88
Is there any sign of significant dissatisfaction with Sasse among Republicans in Nebraska?

Plenty. We are pissed

69 posted on 08/24/2018 7:30:52 PM PDT by MountainDad (A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others. Support your local militia.)
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To: SMGFan
Susan Collins and Ben Sasse will be irrelevant come November 7th,when the GOP picks up another at least 4 seats in the US Senate. All their puffery will be for. naught.k
70 posted on 08/24/2018 7:31:41 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SMGFan

warns, I just love it, warns! oooo Im scared!


71 posted on 08/24/2018 7:37:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SMGFan

warns, I just love it, warns! oooo Im scared!


72 posted on 08/24/2018 7:37:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: vette6387
As for Collins, if Maine doesn’t have a decent Republican to take her seat, give it to the RATs. Maine is a mini-$hit hole state anyway.

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).

73 posted on 08/24/2018 7:37:45 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: BobL

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?


74 posted on 08/24/2018 7:46:05 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Hmmm)
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To: SMGFan
I almost feel sorry for old Jeff. He looks to be treated like that poor Las Vegas sheriff during his news conferences about Mandalay Bay. I bet they got a tail on him everwhere he goes. Rosenstein's hostage? Just saying...

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75 posted on 08/24/2018 7:46:46 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: SMGFan

Sasse and Collins. Those are the last people I would ask for rational advice on important Republican issues.


76 posted on 08/24/2018 7:47:01 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MountainDad
Plenty. We are pissed

Glad to hear it. Maybe a good challenger and successor to Sasse will emerge, if one is not already known out there.

77 posted on 08/24/2018 7:48:27 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: SMGFan

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.


78 posted on 08/24/2018 7:49:16 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

[ 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.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3428050/posts


79 posted on 08/24/2018 7:54:05 PM PDT by GraceG ("Q is not a Cult, you can safely leave at any time, unlike Islam")
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To: neverevergiveup
The obama spy network has a lot of dirt on these losers. There's not a doubt in my mind. They are all cowards who should be thrown out of office.
80 posted on 08/24/2018 7:55:04 PM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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