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. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I'm rethinking this. I was Sessions' harshest critic.
But I noticed a twinkle in his eye during the presser. I couldn't explain that.
Now, with the revelations that the Obama adminstration bugged Trump personally, I'm starting to wonder if Sessions wasn't bowing out because he was, actually, a fox in a henhouse.... and Trump was ready to start indicting Obama people.
Starting to look that way.
Importantly, I do not want the Attorney General futzing around with *distractions* like the marijuana war, when he should be totally occupied with important stuff.
Even staying on the subject of drugs, the opioid crisis is way out of control, and Columbia is having a bumper crop of cocaine.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made an impassioned video plea for more marching, blood and death on the streets – a video that was later posted on the Facebook page of Senate Democrats as “words of inspiration.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/loretta-lynch-need-more-marching-blood-death-on-streets/
Excuse me, civil insurrection? Shouldn’t that be prioritized?
How about the enormous number of major criminal offenses committed by Obama administration workers? How about prosecuting dozens or hundreds of these criminals.
Add to that what are effectively traitors in the intelligence community. George Soros funding riots and anarchy. Illegal alien criminals and international gangsters running rampant.
Sessions should drop the old status quo problems and get to work on the real stuff, and to let everyone know he is doing so. As a nation we no longer have the grace to allow or even permit the endless “treading water” in government.
Any cabinet officer who behaves like George McClellan did in the Civil War needs to be replaced with a Ulysses Grant, Philip Sheridan or WT Sherman. There’s a war on, no time to waste.
Lay off Sessions. Do you not see what’s happening?
And as for marijuana—it’s chemical warfare against entire generations of Americans.
Turns normal people into couch slugs.
The topic of marijuana is a very easy one for the Fraud and Deception industry. Those who want to be fooled are quickly taken in.
I personally don’t care what the Dems say about Sessions. What I do care about is what *he* says and does.
If he wants to advance conservatism, put government criminals in prison, slash the use of excessive and unconstitutional power in the Justice Department, and be at the forefront of sending criminal illegals out, and keeping them out, I am all in favor of him.
If he wants to continue the failed drug policy of Richard Nixon, at the same time we have a real drug crisis ongoing; let government criminals take a pass, like so many RINOs did before; totally back the Patriot Act, though 99% of it is *not* used against terrorists and foreigners, but Americans not even accused of terrorism or complicity in it; and amnesty for dangerous illegal alien repeat offenders in the US, he offers America nothing.
The only reference to him doing anything good in this thread is one poster who says he had “a twinkle in his eye”. Oh, great, that is a big help. We need an Attorney General who kicks ass, not an eye twinkler.
Now instead of just saying I shouldn’t criticize him, you tell me, *why* we should support him at this point?
If he is a turkey, I want him out ASAP. As long as we get somebody better. I don’t care if the Dems dance in the street over some imaginary victory. Their glee changes nothing.
If Sessions didn’t state “I’m going to continue the failed drug policy of Richard Nixon,” then you have no basis to think he will.
Look at his record, then decide about supporting him or not.
Most important, stop falling for the leftist narrative. First though, you’ll need to see that you have in fact fallen for it. So far your comments indicate you don’t get this point.
Take note of those who are critical. Some are in with the NWO. FR has many "plants," not saying they are ordered by others, just that they have a certain world view.
Sessions is a good man. I have some disagreements him, but he is tough as nails where it matters.
You didn’t answer my question, “*why* should we support him at this point?”
Before you answer that, look for quotations from him about what I mentioned. As far as Richard M. Nixon’s failed “War on Drugs”, it failed for two reasons: an emphasis on marijuana instead of other drugs; and the expansion of unneeded and dangerous police powers, mostly against marijuana.
Since Nixon those mistakes have not been corrected, actually worsened. W. Bush used the WoD to substantially end the strong rules of the Posse Comitatus Act, so that the US military are now actively involved in carrying out police actions. Property seizures, warrantless searches and no-knock searches causing vast amounts of harm.
No appreciable good has come from this, in exchange for all this harm.
But make no mistake, I am *not* calling for an end to the War on Drugs: but focusing it on real threats of which there are plenty, not some moralist quest against marijuana.
It does nothing good and costs hundreds of billions of dollars. That is all the reason we need to end it.
So you don’t want to stop the war on drugs, you just want it to be done right.
The way to do that is to establish law and order. Law enforcement officials who are not corrupt. Not hard to understand.
More to the point, leave marijuana to the individual states and concentrate on opiates and their deadly analogs, pharmaceuticals and heroin; stopping the bumper crop of cocaine from reaching the US and educating the new generation as to its hazards; and to continue and even expand a crackdown on methamphetamine and synthetic drugs.
Accompany this by putting strong controls on confiscations without any arrest or prosecution (at one point totaling $600b a year, though they are no longer as forthcoming with the annual totals anymore); as well as the use of these funds to “paramilitarize” local police departments, moving them away from direct federal control to requiring that many federal interactions with them must go through their state governments.
In other words, pay attention to the deadly drugs, which is where the money and manpower need to go, and stop wasting a gigantic amount of money on a stupid fight. This is the same logic used in ending alcohol prohibition.
And while he is at it, he needs to divert vast resources to all the other things the Justice Department needs to do, a 50 year backlog. And 8 years of prosecutions of corrupt officials.
Jeff Sessions is the best man for Attorney General, that’s why he’s it.
The best general in a war is one who is focused on fighting the new battles, not one who is still focused on the last war.
You have no justification for claiming that he is the best man for Attorney General, in that his former service was as a senator, and the only way we have to judge him is by public comments he has made.
And so far, all he has talked about is “old news”, pursued in the status quo way, not the future. Only when he talks about his plans for the future can a judgment be made about his being the best man for the job.
You seem so accustomed to thinking you know all, you can’t comprehend the merits of secrecy.
Playing cards very close to the vest is a good strategy
So, do you think Hillary would have been a better president because she kept her secret conservatism secret?
So far, Sessions has not offered anything to impress conservatives that he is anything other than a status quo Republican. He has been confirmed, and his only action so far was to bend the knee and recuse himself from a non-existent investigation.
The clock is ticking, and he is in a particularly important role for fixing the government. Giving him “the benefit of the doubt” doesn’t work anymore. We want results ASAP. So far all we have gotten is the strategy of George McClellan.
Look at the other confirmed cabinet appointees. They are not letting moss grow on them, but getting to work in very positive and public ways. We must demand the same of Sessions. “Poop or get off the pot.”
patience...... The Judge must be seated first
What gives you away is how quickly after his confirmation you criticize Sessions.
Either you don’t understand that you’re falling for the leftist strategy, or you’re part of it.
Jumping into the frenzy. Just doesn’t make sense doing this before you even see what kind of job Sessions is going to do. Highly suspect of hidden motives. Either that or just not realizing you’re doing the left’s job for them.
Its pretty simple to me. If they didn’t fear him, they wouldn’t smear him.
Sorry, but paranoia is unbecoming.
As is status quo Republicanism. We have suffered under it for decades, and the rise of the Tea Party signaled enough of business as usual.
President Trump has confidence in Attorney General Sessions for the time being, and that is all well and good. But I will note the other cabinet secretaries are wasting no time in getting to work and draining the swamp; and that is exactly what I expect AG Sessions to do as well.
But that is not enough. His is a critical role in the administration, so he needs to start showing results ASAP.
There are 93 U.S. Attorneys located throughout the United States. They supervise district offices with as many as 350 Assistant U.S Attorneys (AUSAs) and as many as 350 support personnel. And I expect them to start convening grand juries with all due speed, and prosecute the hundreds, or thousands, of corrupt government officials within a few months.
And it is (one of) the jobs of the AG to insure they do this. So chop-chop, Mr. Sessions. No time to waste on old business.
You jumped in way too soon.
A sincere or well-reasoned critic would have waited to see how Sessions does his job.
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