Posted on 03/04/2017 4:34:29 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Craven Republicans, looking for a pat on the head from the mainstream media, can always be counted on to echo its idiotic demands. The phony controversy over the Trump campaign’s imaginary ties to Putin is the latest pitiful example of this phenomenon.
Instead of exposing the hyper-partisanship behind this media obsession, these Republicans are humoring it. We hear from them craven calls for a “special prosecutor” to investigate and demands that attorney general Jeff Sessions submit to one because he had, in his capacity as a senator, a grand total of two unimportant encounters with the Russia ambassador. How shocking. Who knew that senators and ambassadors from major countries with whom we have diplomatic relations interact? Extraordinary.
To the hyperventilating twits on Morning Joe, Ted Cruz made the obvious point: “What we are seeing is a lot of political theater. This morning, everyone is in high dudgeon about the meeting. The underlying meeting is a nothing burger. It’s what senators do every day. Meeting with foreign ambassadors, that’s part of the job. I think everyone is getting all worked up because it’s a chance to beat up the attorney general and to beat up the president.”
The media coverage of this nontroversy has been nothing short of Kafkaesque, with heavy-breathing headlines about Sessions failing to “disclose” his meetings with the ambassador. . .
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Sessions is getting gored hard on Free Republic today.
Incredible bs!
I would say from here on out the best way for the Trump Administration to respond to the media and the democrats is pretend they don’t exist. To the extent this is possible.
The whole Russia thing—doesn’t exist.
What they claim about Sessions—doesn’t exist.
So what I mean is, realize their accusations are based on nonexistent facts and respond to them accordingly.
They are using sleight of hand tactics, otherwise known as witchcraft.
Nothing would make the left media happier than to succeed in stirring up conflict between Trump and Sessions. It’s BS.
Most of all, pray to the Lord for guidance.
I don’t know: I’d kinda like to see him pull a Clarence Thomas and say publicly that this is “a high-tech lynching!”
I think it’s way past time to stand up and say that this kind of treachery will not be given credence.
It’s my hope that the Trump administration is just giving the Democrat thugs a lot of rope to hang themselves in the court of public opinion before they stop the assault.
Sessions’ recusal was a disaster. He fell into the standard leftist trap: fake news accusation against Republican; Democrats call for investigation; due to media pressure, Republicans bow to the unneeded investigation; timid lawyers (probably Federalist Society)advise that recusal is required; and the investigation ends up in the hands of people who are predisposed against Republicans.
Sessions’ recusal was a disaster. He fell into the standard leftist trap: fake news accusation against Republican; Democrats call for investigation; due to media pressure, Republicans bow to the unneeded investigation; timid lawyers (probably Federalist Society)advise that recusal is required; and the investigation ends up in the hands of people who are predisposed against Republicans.
In all fairness, Sessions represents a symptom that conservatives are trying hard to overcome. That is the holding on to old, dead ideas that are inefficient, wasteful, and lead to government excess.
In his case, continuing the war on marijuana. We have wasted a trillion dollars on it, and continue to waste money, and at the cost to our civil rights through property confiscation without criminal charge.
It began with the prohibition of alcohol, and the legal abuses that were created in those times are still with us today, as well as substantial organized crime families.
The War on Drugs amplified these villainies to ridiculous degrees, confiscating hundreds of billions of dollars which are then used to militarize our police into paramilitaries.
Marijuana ceased long ago to even be needed to sustain this insanity, and once we no longer federally pursue it, all we will have done is to get rid of the smallest part of the monster that has been created.
And just today Sessions claimed that the Patriot Act, and all of its abuses against American citizens, not terrorists or foreigners, is just peachy and should be continued. TO HELL with that.
But it’s not limited to Sessions. Zinke in Interior also wants to cling on to every square inch of land taken by the federal government to deny the states and the people its use. There is ZERO justification for doing so, other than to feed the government monster.
We have 16 major intelligence agencies, and well over 100 federal police agencies, and non-police and non-intelligence agencies armed to the teeth with their own SWAT units.
Conservatives know that the only way to stop the monster is to stop it. Every part of the government must be considered for elimination, with only those that efficiently perform their *constitutional* role needing to fight to justify their continuation.
THE STATUS QUO SUCKS. People who are comfortable with it do not belong in government. Every bit of it must prove itself as essential if it is to continue.
And that is conservatism. And that is what we demand.
Way too soon to judge Sessions.
Compromising with liberals NEVER works!! NEVER!
“Sessions’ recusal was a disaster. He fell into the standard leftist trap: fake news accusation against Republican; Democrats call for investigation; due to media pressure, Republicans bow to the unneeded investigation; timid lawyers (probably Federalist Society)advise that recusal is required; and the investigation ends up in the hands of people who are predisposed against Republicans.”
Yeah. (Sorry, Grampa Dave, Socon-Econ is right, and it is most definitely not “bs”.)
I do not doubt Sessions’ integrity; I doubt his perspicacity.
The real Republicans have got to stop playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules with lethal, communist street fighters, or we are all doomed.
Pocket-knives do not work well against MAC-10s.
(By the bye, I am a former minister, and spent five years as an avowed pacifist. I once stood my ground and permitted a Roid-Rager to assault me and threaten to kill me.)
I value ethics and morals MORE than most on this site - yeah, I do; get used to it - but Sessions is not just acting on his OWN behalf, he is acting on behalf of the NATION.
His refusal to fight this tooth and nail is a betrayal of our trust.
The nation is on life support, and needs ruthless fighters to save it, not fastidious political parlor gamers.
One more step in the trap — while the biased investigation of Republicans caused by the fake news continues, all the really rotten leftist behavior continues to go investigated.
Until Conservatives/Pubs are willing to get down in the gutter and wallow with the pigs, we will never win against them. One must upon occasion fight as dirty as our enemies, or be prepared to lose. Trump’s motto is WIN not lose.
It isn’t unfair to judge people by what they say they are going to do.
02/27/17 - “Attorney General Jeff Sessions, long an outspoken opponent of drug legalization, is signaling he will continue to toe a tough line against marijuana as the nation’s top lawman even though a growing number of states are moving to legalize or decriminalize pot.”
“The provisions in the Patriot Act are in no way extreme, in no way novel, in no way contradictory to the principles of the constitutional law this country has operated under since its founding.”
The recusal was a big mistake. What’s scary is said he did it on the advice of the Obama holdovers still at Justice. How could he be so naive? He is in a war and doesn’t seem to know it. So if thre is an investigation it falls to someone Chuck the schmuck wanted.
You’re more than way too soon to judge Sessions. Especially in this political climate of piling on Trump.
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