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| Firing Sessions Is a Terrible Idea |
| 2017-07-26 |
| [American Thinker] Donald Trump is a naturally polarizing figure. His bread and butter is brazen attacks on those who challenge him. As a media figure and as a business promoter, that worked well. As president, however, Trump needs to pick his fights carefully and avoid needless political bloodletting. Changing people in his administration when he feels that things have gone wrong suggests that he picked the wrong people to begin with, especially in the first six months of his administration. In some cases, like Comey, a holdover from the Obama administration, Trump should have cleaned house right at the beginning of his term of office, when people naturally understand Trump's need to have his own people in key positions. When Trump gets rid of people who have been his supporters and who have interviewed for the job Trump gives them in his administration, it is a different matter. Jeff Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump in his run for the Republican nomination. Sessions is also a man who during his political career has stood up to the Establishment and done what he has believed to be the right thing even if it was not the most politically expedient. Sessions has a reputation among the Republican caucus in the Senate as a particularly honorable and decent man. He also gave up a safe Senate seat as a member of the majority party to serve on Trump's team. If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions or if Trump continues to harass Sessions with dumb tweets, then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives who are immune to threats from Trump but who can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine. Almost everything Trump does, except for executive orders, must go through the Senate ‐ legislation, appointments, and treaties. If Trump alienates conservative Republicans in the Senate, it is hard to see how he will be able to do anything during his term as president. Why should these senators trust Trump? Why should they believe he is really conservative, particularly if he taps Rudy Giuliani as the next attorney general, a decent man on the wrong side of nearly every social issue? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 I really dont need people speaking for us poeple from the South. And Trump does not need Sessions talking to the Russians continuing the scam investigation into Trump that came out just before Trump started going after Sessions last week. DUMP SESSIONS |
| Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-07-26 19:58 |
| #8 I will believe in Sessions when he fires his department's lawyers who went after the Sisters of the Poor. A case that is still in motion from his office. Or when he make delay murderers of the VA, not to forget the IRS and Comney,,, do the happy dance perp walks to the closest Federal prison. Raj Why should Trump ever apologize to Cruz? The first insult was fired at by the Texas lobbyist and Cruz operative Andrea McWilliams. Enter Liz Mair's super PAC "Make America Awesome". She was working out of Cruz supporter Carly Fionia's same PO box and started sending out fliers about Mrs. Trump to upcoming states. Did Teddy apologize for that? Hell no. Anyone remember weasel Ted's voter intimidation fliers he sent out in Iowa? I mean come on, talk about shades of Obammer's IRS. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-07-26 16:13 |
| #7 If Senate cons won't support him out of pique, them they're useless (or inimical) Absolutely no argument from me on that assessment. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-26 13:43 |
| #6 then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives Just wondering - when they had dinner a few months ago, did Trump ever apologize to Ted Cruz for massively insulting Heidi Cruz? By my count, Ted's probably one of the few friends Trump has in the Senate. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-07-26 12:38 |
| #5 Ima about done with Trump. I guess we have staff or cabinet meetings via dumbazz "tweets" now a days where the President of the USA berates his AG in front of all. He smears a good man like Sessions in the NYT no less just days after he gives the press exactly what they want by running off Spicer...and replacing him with a slicky boy wealthy liberal NY banker. Sessions and Spicer are both solid conservatives that were fighting Pelosi in the trenches in 2010-2011 and defeated her...while Scaramucci was raising funds for Obama and the dems. This type of behavior by Trump does not pay well in the South. I and most everyone I know voted for Trump and after this week most folks down here refer to him as an idiot. Trumo needs to STFU and build the wall. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2017-07-26 12:07 |
| #4 Sessions has a reputation among the Republican caucus in the Senate as a particularly honorable and decent man Talk about a low bar. If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions or if Trump continues to harass Sessions with dumb tweets, then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives who are immune to threats from Trump but who can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine. Trump has been trying to get more of the conservative agenda through than any President since Reagan. If Senate cons won't support him out of pique, them they're useless (or inimical) and should be replaced. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-07-26 12:03 |
| #3 Not a single word about Sessions' performance as an AG. Curious. Prior to Trump, I don't recall 'performance' being an issue with these people. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-26 06:44 |
| #2 I went through the article at the link and it's all about what Sessions did for trump and that Sessions' friends can do to Trump. Not a single word about Sessions' performance as an AG. Curious. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-26 06:11 |
| #1 I'm not entirely sure it's a 'terrible idea.' Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke just hours after Trump tweeted out his latest attack on Sessions, faulting the attorney general for "a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes...& Intel leakers!" Link to the above. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-26 06:02 |