Posted on 12/30/2017 10:04:23 AM PST by bitt
Several problems arise when considering how he may leave.
Whether he steps down or is fired, the President will not have a backing to appoint a replacement UNTIL Mueller is taken out. Once Mueller is gone and his ‘mission’ is terminated, then Sessions can quietly retire leaving the President with a clear choice to appoint an AG that will serve the Administration in a full capacity.
The President has remarked on several occasions that he finds this situation quite ‘frustrating’. But he is doing remarkably well given frittering away of time as you described.
Another problem is that McConnell is not giving the President an opportunity to make recess appointments presumably because McConnell did the same when Obama tried to recess appoint a Supreme Court Justice to fill Scalia’s seat. McConnell seems to be adhering to some notion of ‘fairness’ when in fact if he loses control of the Senate for the GOP, the democrats will waste no time with all manner of unfair procedures and tactics.
McConnell, and Ryan, have not understood that Americans will follow them if they show resoluteness and courage. But these qualities are not in their inventory.
Rosenstein
He could create problems as acting AG is Sessions leaves. And he could be there a long time. The President could fire Rosenstein after the Mueller witchhunt is shut down. He is an appointee and he could be fired for cause. No explanation needed.
There is an Associate AG named Rachel Brand who is #3 in DOJ and who seems quite conservative and formidable. But I don’t know for sure. She should certainly be considered for appointment to the top job in DOJ.
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/rachel-brand-doj-attorney-bio-trump-russia-probe
But all the above is predicated on Mueller being shut down. I feel more optimistic about that prospect now than earlier this year.
Donald Trump, as President and a business executive, always gave people a chance to prove themselves. Unfortunately, he is not allowed to fire non-appointees indiscriminately. And firing appointees may be shooting himself in the foot as Congress may not confirm his appointed replacements. Congress acts like a hostile Board of Directors. Trump as CEO is not unfamiliar with boardroom politics. So far he’s doing great given the circumstances.
What still gets me is that Sessions knew he would be going through confirmation proceedings and knew he would be recusing himself. He should have bowed out right then and there, retaining his Senate seat. The President could the have chosen a conflict-free AG and there would have been no Mueller wasting so much time. This was Sessions doing. I liked him pretty well as Senator. But he didn’t need to be AG, He knows that. His Senate seat was safe as he is very popular in AL. The AG position is not tailor-made for Jeff Sessions. It doesn’t seem to be divinely planned that he be AG. He was asked if he would take the job as a reward for his support of the President during the campaign. But he could have politely refused as it became clear that democrats were creating false allegations of his Russian ties. I understand why he recused himself. But he didn’t need to be there to begin with. I think the democrats were accusing him while he was going through confirmation. He could have bowed out. He didn’t need to be there and doesn’t need to there now.
Everything these damn libs touch, they’re bent on destroying.....everything; including the esteemed FBI.
There isn’t an ounce of decency in any of em....they’re all communist and evil.
They should NEVER, ever, be allowed near the levers of power in any government, including dog catcher.
Note that in the last of the following quotations on the subject, Jefferson noted, "But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood," he declared, "I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth."
"[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
“That’s Sessions and Wray’s job.”
I can’t decide if Sessions is inept, corrupt or both. Wray received a LOT of Rat votes to confirm, almost all of them. A very bad sign. At this point any nominee that gets more than a few Rat votes is completely suspect.
Add b**** Lynch and Bubba to the list.
As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the Committee's subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the Committee's investigation were brought to light.
In other words, the now infamous Clinton/Obama Stooges in the FBI were reassigned after it turned out that Nunes's committee was hot on their t[r]ail.
See my post 46 for an interesting tidbit that comes out of this.
Sessions had to be exposed to some of the “inter workings” as a senator. If he touches any of these topics in his role as AG, the investigation could be considered tainted. Trump and co know how bad things are. They could blow it up in bombastic Trump fashion. I believe DJT knows that is not the way to go........since you can play that card anytime. For now, slow and steady wins the race. Tough on those of us who have already connected most of the dots.
INCLUDE crickets-chirping CONgre$$,a.k.a. The Gang of 535, in that.
INCOMPREHENSIBLE. Zero “representation”. The amount of corruption throughout is INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
Hi.
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Three words, rope and trees.
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Slightly off topic here... but as I read this article, here in the airport, I also hear CNN reporters wetting their panties in glee that they think they finally habe some definitive PROOF of Trump/Russia collusion.
Sessions is WAY past doing any good for this country in his position. Bye bye, Jeff. Time to GO.
I am trying to have patience with Sessions even though as time goes by it gets harder and harder to do.
One thing that gives me some hope is there is allegedly thousands of sealed indictments out there waiting in the wings. There are citizen journalists who have claimed to have seen them so I am hoping they are correct. There may be many good things happening behind the scenes so I’ll try to remain cautiously patient.
CGato
Sessions is on of the few cabinet members who has never run/managed a large enterprise - it really does take a different skill set.
“Sessions is on of the few cabinet members who has never run/managed a large enterprise - it really does take a different skill set.”
Good point. Let’s see if he can “grow” into the job. Then the “Peter Principal” came to mind. Hehehehe
There can be no justice with a corrupt DOJ.
Will anything be done to correct the situation?
FRom the last: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120368/posts
yer killin me!
o I hate that man
“Sessions has been one of my biggest disappointments.
I don’t think corruption when I wonder why he has done absolutely nothing, but I do think someone must have the goods on him.”
The only reasonable explanation is that someone has pictures of him in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
With Sessions at DOJ, this will never come to anything.
Hundreds of crimes to be prosecuted, and he won’t touch a single one of them.
from this group: "Update to Sealed Indictments: 4,289 in all of U.S. from 10/30 - 11/22 How many are normal? 1,077 per 2009 report:"
https://twitter.com/damartin32
Yesterday, I heard 850 new sealed indictments from southern California that will be added to this list but hasn't been confirmed yet.
“Sessions had to be exposed to some of the “inter workings” as a senator. If he touches any of these topics in his role as AG, the investigation could be considered tainted.“
Yeah, I’ll buy that. The thousands of sealed criminal indictments against so many of these or related DC cretins will have to suffice to break the dam.
Tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic
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