Of course. Trump is the only rational choice for conservatives that want a wall.
Important “endorsement”....but always subject to change.
So, is Sessions a good guy now? Even though he was a liar about Cruz the other day?
Sessions was huge supporter for John Roberts SCOTUS.
Trump hates Sessions for giving us Obamacare
But I was told on FR that Donald Trump doesn’t pass Ted “Kenneth Copeland” Cruz’s purity test. In the Cruz test, it doesn’t matter that you once favored conferring LPR status on illegals, it just measures how many times a day you pander to evangelicals in their churches and alternately brag about your lawyer credentials.
Ted Cruz is winning that one by a mile.
“...Trump has answered to my satisfaction, but the others haven’t yet.”
Keyword is “yet.”
Sessions asked for responses to his questionnaire. He seems to suggest that he hasn’t “yet” received responses from the other candidates.
Article is written to mislead; it suggests responses were received and were unsatisfactory, then omits any elaboration as to why.
Regardless whether the publication is to the left or to the right, and irrespective of which candidate is being touted, I despise manipulative journalism.
Sessions said that he was similarly impressed with Trump's picks for the Supreme Court. During Saturday night's GOP debate, Trump was the only candidate to list his potential picks: Bill Pryor and Diane Sykes. Sessions, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said "Trump really hit a home run with me when he mentioned [Pryor]."
Despite all the grief Trump took here with the Pryor mention, Sessions was impressed. I side with Sessions over the one-note Pryor FR critics.
Some of the responses to this post will be very interesting!
Thanks for posting it.
I don’t listen to Mark anymore so I’m curious: Did his head explode our did he go on a tirade against Sessions?
Sessions and Gowdy both
“And I’ve asked them questions about trade and immigration and one question on crime. And Trump has answered to my satisfaction, but the others haven’t yet. So I think these candidates need to be specific about where they stand before Americans start giving them their vote.”
I respect Jeff Sessions greatly. It would be great to see his scorecard questions. As much as I like Sessions, I cannot guaranty that I would agree 100% on all questions. I’d also like to see who has answered, how they’ve answered, and who hasn’t answered yet.
Trump probably has extra latitude on this. He may not have a record, and can answer today however he pleases. This has plusses and minuses. As for the others, I can sometimes be convinced that a flip is genuine. Best would be if they have always had the “right” (as I grade it) positions. That is better than no record. Worst would be if they currently have the wrong positions. Give Trump credit for scoring 100% on the Sessions test today.
A lot of Americans are personally worried about facing international competition. Should an auto assembler in Michigan (unionized), or Georgia (right-to-work) have to face competition from a Mexican in a Mexican plant? I say Yes. Should an American construction worker on a project in the United States have to face on-site competition from a Mexican? I say No.
I think Jeff Sessions is likely to endorse Trump just before the SEC.
Now: In an interview with Bloomberg Politics in January, Trump said, "I'm pro-life and I have been pro-life." He said he believed there should be exceptions in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Now: At the 2015 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, Trump said if he became president, "the 2nd Amendment will be totally protected." He told the Web site Ammoland he does "not support expanding background checks" and said current background checks "don't work."
Now:Â On NBC on Wednesday, he called Clinton "the worst secretary of state in the history of our nation" and said she would be "a terrible president."
Now:Â Has been a registered Republican since 2009.
There are also some flips which haven't necessarily been from left to right.
Now:Â On Fox News's "On The Record" this week, he called Bush "pathetic" for his support of Common Core, said his immigration views were "baby stuff."
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More than 30 Immigrants Admitted to the U.S. Recently Implicated in Terrorism, reported 12/17/15
In advance of the release of Congress’ year-end spending package, the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is highlighting some terrorists who were recently granted access to the U.S. through the nation’s immigration system. In an email to reporters Tuesday, a Sessions aide listed more than 30 examples of immigrants admitted to the U.S. who were recently implicated in terrorist activities.
Sessions, chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, and other conservative lawmakers have warned against passing a spending bill that does not place limitations on admissions — in particular refugee admission — to the U.S.
“Congress must cancel Obama/s blank refugee check and put Congress back in charge of the program. We cannot allow the President to unilaterally decide how many refugees he wishes to admit, nor continue to force taxpayers to pick up the tab for the tens of billions of unpaid-for welfare and entitlement costs,†Sessions and
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) , chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations subcommittee, said in a joint statement last week.
The pair added that passing the spending deal without limiting language would put the U.S. on a path to approve admission for hundreds of thousands of migrants from a broad range of countries with jihadists movements over the next 12 months, on top of all the other autopilot annual immigration – absent language to reduce the numbers.
The Sessions aide noted that the 30 examples are listed represented just a partial inventory of recently implicated terrorist migrants.Read the list:
<><> A refugee from Uzbekistan was convicted of providing material support and money to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to the Department of Justice, he also procured bomb-making materials in the interest of perpetrating a terrorist attack on American soil. (August 2015)
<><>An immigrant from Albania, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for giving over $1,000 to terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, and for attempting to join a radical jihadist insurgent group in Pakistan. (August 2015)
<><> An immigrant from Egypt, who subsequently was granted U.S. citizenship, was charged with providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to ISIS, for aiding and abetting a New York college student in receiving terrorist training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive such training. (August 2015)
<><> An immigrant from India, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status by virtue of his marriage to an American citizen, was indicted in federal court on charges of conspiring to provide thousands of dollars to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in order to assist them in their global jihad, and on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. (November 2015)
Sessions has eclipsed Cruz as my absolute favorite Senator. He has in my head taken the slot that I had previously reserved for Senator Jim DeMint. That said Trump is the only one who I’m certain who gets the immigration issue and it is the most critical issue. Cruz I believe is at heart a “free trader” and not in a good way. Its really my only substantive worry with him. Economics is often compared to the ocean with the sentiment that a “rising tide lifts all ships” but that only works where you have a normalized basin. What we have been conducting is not free trade but allowing our economy to be leeched. Yes it improved China and the third world as we bled jobs and grew huge trade deficits but the returns came primarily at the top with the only benefit at the low end being lower priced consumer goods.
Cheaper widgets however does not make up for the difference in a service industry job versus a manufacturing job. China and Europe has grown their brain trust in electronics manufacturing and chip semiconductor fabrication while Americans are left with brain trust in flipping hamburgers and now these jokers want to further hurt us by opening up more IT jobs for replacement with foreign workers who pay nearly nothing for their education and have very little debt load compared to their America counterparts.
While a rising tide lifts all ships. If you have two vessels and one is fuller and at a much higher elevation (US economy) and one at a much lower elevation and less full even with a back channel upward you end up with a big imbalance. Economic growth like water flows in the path of least resistance water does not generally flow uphill and in order to raise the third world economies up enough to equalize the economic imbalance the first world would need to have an impossible growth rate or as we are seeing suffer multiple generations of economic imbalance as the first world is brought down to a more third world state.
I don’t know anyone outside of the profiteers at the top who have benefited from agreements like NAFTA. Perot was right when he predicted the big sucking sound. The US has lost more than half of its manufacturing jobs and even more alarming is the transformation of our STEM workforce.
” In 1994, there were 6.2 U.S.-born workers for every foreign-born worker in science and engineering occupations. By 2006, the ratio was 3.1 to 1. “ this is occurring even though there is a surplus of STEM graduates in the US. The problem is that foreign born STEM workers are more likely to accept lower wages because their education and debt load is far lower than US born graduates.
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2011/usforeignbornstem.aspx
http://cis.org/more-us-stem-grads-than-jobs
A History of Deception
The definitive timeline of what Ted Cruz said and did in the 2013 immigration debate.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/