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  1. I do not believe Rosenstein’s “elation”. In fact, I strongly doubt it.
    I find him despicable, craven, tied to his desk and office as a classic bureaucrat.
    What Sessions thinks is no longer material, and his thoughts were not stated by the source.

    I admire Barr’s recent iterations, which indicate the LAW comes first. The country-club GOP softies’ views are irrelevant, since they believe in a Party or a Man, not the rule of Law.

  2. I got put in spam purgatory. Barr sounds fine to me, and it’s a chess move on Trump’s part.

  3. “whose presidency thus fast[sic] has been marked by attacks on the DOJ and the FBI for a perceived failure to target his former political rivals” for their lawlessness and corruption.

    Fixed it for you CNN.

  4. In the midst of the Bush-funeral-love-fest, be instructive to see if or how the media mangle and spin the Barr nomination.

    I find myself increasingly old and tired. Weary of the convoluted nonsense of Trump-hate. It strikes me as reminiscent of high school cliques and passions.

    How that’s not more obvious to people is what worries me. It’s not just the “crazies in charge of the asylum.” It’s something about the delusions of being “in the know” together. Very worrying.

  5. CNN (at the first link): “Barr, who worked his way from a night school law student and up through the ranks of the Department of Justice, is widely viewed by legal observers as a deeply experienced attorney with bipartisan respect.”

    So were Comey and Mueller.
    If Rosenstein is elated, I am going to be wary.
    We will see.
    Staying tuned to see what Andy McCarthy says.

  6. The man is 68 years old. One of the main problems with Sessions is that he was an old man with no stamina for a fight- physical or mental. Barr is hardly an improvement on that.

  7. One of the main problems with Sessions is that he was an old man with no stamina for a fight- physical or mental.

    I doubt that’s the problem. Sessions was a fairly rank-and-file lawyer who built relationships with Republican politicians. Nothing wrong with that, but in the course of his career he’s had limited executive experience and none with an agency whose employee census is in three digits. He didn’t have a loyal subordinate working on his behalf. He had Rod Rosenstein. I’ll wager Barr has more g and knows his way around the bureaucracy. Now, whether he’ll do anything…

  8. Heather Nauert has always been very poised during the many times I’ve seen her on air, first as a news reader for Fox News, and then as the State Department spokesman. I expect her to be at least as effective as Nikki Haley.

  9. in the course of his career he’s had limited executive experience and none with an agency whose employee census is in three digits

    This is a problem with Senators, especially since McCain Feingold. They spend time socializing and going to fund raisers. They have zero executive experience unless they had a career outside politics first and few have had one.

  10. Barr sounds like a good choice, although I generally prefer bringing in new people rather than recycling someone from a previous administration. I very much share Cornhead’s hope that he goes after Comey, McCabe and Hillary, but I’m not holding my breath. A good first move would be to replace Rosenstein.

  11. This is a problem with Senators, especially since McCain Feingold.

    The dysfunctions of campaign finance regulation have been with us since 1974, at least. Not sure why McCain-Feingold is so prominent in your thinking.

    I think Rudolph Giuliani said after you’ve had experience as an executive, service in a legislative body just doesn’t cut it. My guess would be people attracted to service on conciliar bodies and people attracted to executive positions are distinct types. In New York, you have state legislators who seek out higher office in Albany and you have state legislators who run for Congress. Congress is not typically in the career history of Albany bigwigs, Gov. Carey the exception. The last time an Albany bigwig was elected to Congress was in 1956.

  12. A good first move would be to replace Rosenstein.

    Supposedly, one of Barr’s hobbies is playing the bagpipes. Bet he knows how Longshanks disposed of Wm. Wallace.

  13. About 35% of the membership of the outgoing U.S. Senate held a public executive position before entering Congress. Surprisingly high.

  14. Mike K on December 8, 2018 at 10:15 am at 10:15 am said:
    in the course of his career he’s had limited executive experience and none with an agency whose employee census is in three digits

    This is a problem with Senators, especially since McCain Feingold. They spend time socializing and going to fund raisers. They have zero executive experience unless they had a career outside politics first and few have had one.
    * * *
    With a nod to Art Deco’s caveats, I could get behind a Constitutional Amendment stating that no person shall be elected or appointed to any government office or position who has not spent at least 5 years (and more as you go up the ladder) employed in some profession with no relation to public service in all its myriad aspects.
    In otherwords, get a real job — or employ someone else in a job — before you start telling the rest of us, under threat of law and force, how to live our lives.

    Who was the congressman who went back into the private sector to run a business, and admitted that he would never have supported the laws and regulations he helped enact if he had known then what he knew now.

  15. “…Amazingly, the Japanese ignored the fuel dump and ammo dump.”

    Amazingly, so did the Americans. The fuel farm and the ammo dump were completely undefended. So it was a wash. They forgot to attack it, we forgot to defend it.

    140 million gallons of bunker oil went unscathed because everybody, and I mean everybody, forgot about it.

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