At times, he appears totally cowed, as if he's acting under the threat of blackmail, or threats against his family.
Posted on 11/14/2017 10:58:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Jeff Sessions is a man in search of a banana peel. When he can’t find one to step on, he supplies his own.
Sessions is not a bad man, but he is a bad attorney general, as he demonstrated again Tuesday.
By writing to Republicans in Congress just hours before he was scheduled to testify that he was open to appointing a special prosecutor to examine former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail case and the notorious Uranium One deal, Sessions primed the pump for a really big show.
Democrats arrived furious and Republicans gleefully expected an ah-ha moment. Both came away unsatisfied and unhappy.
Unfortunately for Sessions, the old conceit in journalism — that if both sides are angry at your story, you’ve done something right — doesn’t apply to being attorney general. When nobody’s happy, including your boss, you’re failing.
While Democrats and Republicans are angry at Sessions for different reasons, there’s no rule saying both can’t be right.
The litany of things he couldn’t remember or couldn’t discuss seemed calculated to frustrate rather than enlighten. The fact that he thought non-answers to big questions would be good enough reflects how poorly he fits his job.
His faulty judgment has become a calling card, which is why I’ve argued that appointing Sessions was Trump’s biggest personnel mistake; yesterday’s performance did nothing to change my view.
There’s also a new bonus reason: had Sessions stayed as a senator from Alabama, Roy Moore’s dirty history would have remained a secret instead of a national scandal that could help flip Senate control.
Sessions’ decision to recuse himself, then tell Trump, from anything related to the 2016 campaign led to the enormous cloud over the White House that has distorted the first year of the new presidency.
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The other more important observance is just ask why, if he is so detrimental to the MAGA agenda, why does the boss keep him there?
I caught a little of his performance yesterday, and what shocked me was his comment about believing the accusers of Moore. I could not believe it.
Here was a man, under oath, circumspectly parsing every word he spoke, letting loose with that.
Characteristic of a deep swamp denizen.
“...why does the boss keep him there?”
I keep having to repeat: The Senate Republicans have dared him to fire Sessions; say they will not appoint a replacement.
disgusting incompetent idiot!
Mr. Goodwin fails to reveal that Sessions could not remember meetings (maybe just one), among hundreds, and trivial, where Papadopulous was also there. Sessions could not remember the nonexistent planning of Russian collusion according to Pap. and his Dem allies doing the badgering in the hearing. In fact Sessions stated clearly several times that there was no collusion of any sort that he was aware of.
Mr Goodwin is a Sessions-hater and not objective.
Sessions did the right thing and recused. Sessions is honorable to a fault. He probably won't get Hillary tried because Comey gave everyone around her immunity. Sessions won't undo the injustice, and Hillary will skate, at least for now.
As for Russia the Dems were going to get their special counsel no matter what, with RINO support.
At times, he appears totally cowed, as if he's acting under the threat of blackmail, or threats against his family.
If Sessions really was a plant, that might explain his attendance at so many Trump rallies, and ALWAYS having a cherubic smile on his face while in attendance. And could yesterday’s public hearing have been rope-a-dope, to beguile us lowbrows out here in flyover country? FIRE Sessions!
Because the boss, as you put it, has been threatened by several Republican senators with impeachment if he fires Sessions. President Trump is trying to get some things done despite obstruction by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. That is the truth.
The biggest criticism I have of him is his failure to prosecute Hillary. Blame Sessions all you want but the ultimate responsibility to prosecute this criminal lies with DJT and nobody else.
All in all while it's very early in his term, I expected more from him considering his campaign rhetoric.
Yes, please do that. Immediately or sooner.
Bump
I started to have doubts about Sessions when he stated continued support of asset forfeiture. Violation of 4A, 5A, 14A.
Well, OK. Guess I’ll play my part and continue criticizing him.
Exactly. FReepers really need to read Machiavelli and Sun Tzu. Most have fallen for the fake news and can’t yet see what’s happening. I believe Sessions is a real patriot. If I’m proven wrong, I’ll admit it, but it’s far to early for all the handwringing and accusations.
I am amazed that Trump continues to allow Sessions to skate around the duties he has sworn to uphold. Sessions has done everything possible to hold onto the job as AG WITHOUT doing the job. Make no bones about it, Sessions MUST GO if Trump plans to hold onto a slim silver thread of his presidency. Appointing Sessions as AG is indeed a major mistake Trump made and the sooner he is gone, the better.
“We have already learned that the Sessions’ apologists are talking nonsense.”
There is something else. Perhaps, and I am no Sessions apologist by any stretch of the imagination, is doing his job as an independent member of the justice department. He isn’t supposed to be the President’s pit bull. That’s a leftwing move designed to destroy the country from within. We are asking Sessions to be part of the “Just us” department. That isn’t his job.
Sessions problem is he is honest with principles, which Trump likes. But it is also something the a President doesn’t want, especially when the Barbarians are at the gate. Sessions has to pick his battles and recusing himself on day one was an unforgivable mistake.
Levin is on the junk pile of history. I tune him in, and turn him off when he gives the slightest move against Trump. Last week he lasted 22 minutes, a record. I used to listen to every podcast. Now Pandora smooth jazz.
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