Comments on: Jeff Sessions resigns: so long, it’s been not all that good to know you

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 21:52:58 +0000

“Rosenstein should also have recused himself too. ”
Indeed.
But we all know that only Republicans have to follow any rules.
(And don’t anybody tell me he’s registered with the GOP — that is not apparently a determining factor in the situation anymore.)

By: Doug Purdie

Doug Purdie — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:14:09 +0000

Sessions was correct to recuse himself. Can you imagine the outcry from both sides of the aisle if a campaign official who met with Russian officials was overseeing the Russia collusion investigation? Come on!
Rosenstein should also have recused himself too. This is the guy who signed off on every bogus FISA application put before him.

By: Kai Akker

Kai Akker — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:06:50 +0000

the Democrats are trying to pull their usual tricks to stymie the approval and/or effectiveness of his successor (and the person named so far—Matthew Whitaker—may not even be the permanent appointee)

Here is one route by which those “usual tricks” originated — with an assist from Hollywood via George Takei, political scientist extraordinaire. Matt Whitaker made the terrible decision to retweet another writer’s column, instead of passing it on in samizdat form: https://spectator.org/trekkies-and-other-anti-whitaker-treacheries/

A good column; the comments about Rosenstein make so plain how ludicrous this special prosecution has been from the start. Two years is long enough, Whitaker should order the final report and the budget should be reduced to a trickle.

Just imagine what would be transpiring if the GOP had lost the Senate. –Neo

No need to imagine, it should be a done deal in another month or so.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 05:42:12 +0000

PA Cat on November 7, 2018 at 9:18 pm at 9:18 pm said:
Meanwhile Trump has followed up by revoking Jim Acosta’s WH press pass:
* * *
I kinda wish Trump had invited Acosta to take the podium, and then just sat and waited for him to finish his rant, without speaking, and then asked the other journalists if they were ready for the President to come back up and Jim to sit down.
Then NEVER call on Acosta ever again (which is what should have been done long ago — let him come, never give him the mic) because he used up all his turns.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:24:48 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZfCar-Ks8

The Boston Irishman Fred Allen and the west coast Jews who ran Warner Brothers made sport of Southerners. Doesn’t mean they actually knew any.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:20:00 +0000

The most effective Senators in that era were usually from the South, like Richard Russell and Walter George, who also saw that segregation was maintained.

The state legislatures maintained segregation. What these characters saw to was that Congress would not exercise it’s options to disrupt the Southern legislatures’ schemes. Their tools were the Senate’s parliamentary rules. The northern majority could at any time have enacted a sensible set of parliamentary rules and then passed the necessary legislation. They couldn’t be bothered.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:16:09 +0000

The book and movie “Advise and Consent” provided a pretty good picture.

Unlike Fred Allen, Allen Drury actually worked the Capitol Hill beat; these were people he knew face-to-face. It’s been decades since I read the book, but I don’t recall it portraying Senators as useless drones. (Though one of the characters was a rutting animal a la Gary Hart and another a blackmailer).

I despise the Senate as an institution for a variety of reasons, but contending they just breathe in and out and collect fat salaries is a bum rap.

By: OriginalFrank

OriginalFrank — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:59:30 +0000

And to back up her claims, Sanders shared a video from InfoWars. Hopefully this is not where she goes to learn about 911. –manju

———————-

I have a suspicion that she and/or Trump chose InfoWars as the reference site BECAUSE they want to underscore – with MSM help – that all the web free speech controllers (Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and many more) have deplatformed InfoWars (as a proxy for deplatforming the rest of us deplorables).

If so, I approve!

By: Flying Dutchman

Flying Dutchman — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:55:00 +0000

As I really enjoy a lot of things Lincoln said, I especially grok his quip about Fightin’ Phil Sheridan’s height:
“I always thought military commanders should be 6’4″, but I look at Sheridan and realize 4’6″ will do just fine.”

Also don’t forget George Thomas, who really did ‘float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.’ Make that, ‘sting like a whole nest of hornets.’ He never got the recognition he deserved, because he was a Virginian; the Union command didn’t like him and the Confederates outright hated him. Thomas remained loyal to his nation and his West Point oath.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:25:59 +0000

> Sessions is a McClelland, not a Grant.

I’d prefer Sherman or Sheridan.