Sen. Cornyn warns the rump: Firing AG Sessions could halt GOP cooperation on agenda

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By Tribune News Service

[FONT=&quot]WASHINGTON — The Senate majority's No. 2 leader has given President Donald Trump one of the strongest pushbacks from any Republican in Congress this year: Firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions could bring to a halt GOP cooperation with the administration's legislative agenda.
"Well, it's the president prerogative, but he is then going to jeopardize, potentially, his ability to get anything else done here," Majority Whip John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday. "And I don't think that should be his desire or preference."
Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and justice on the state Supreme Court, said he continues to view Sessions as "doing just a fine job" running he Justice Department and someone who "did the right thing" _ for that sake of his own credibility and that of the department—by recusing himself from the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling.
Sessions did so after conceding he had contacts with Russia during the 2016 campaign, when he was a senator from Alabama and one of Trump's most prominent surrogates and political counselors.
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/07/trump_asks_about_firing_jeff_s.html

[FONT=&quot]Trump asks about firing Jeff Sessions, calls his position 'weak'
President Donald Trump has spoken with advisers about firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and launched a fresh Twitter tirade Tuesday against the man who was the first U.S. senator to endorse his candidacy.

The Senate leader's warning to the White House marked one of the very few times, since Trump became president six months ago, that a GOP lawmaker of any consequence has suggested inflicting any sort of political punishment for the president's out-of-bounds behavior.
And Trump's treatment of Sessions is unprecedented by almost any measure. Not only do presidents customarily dismiss Cabinet secretaries who displease them rather than demean them almost daily, but also Sessions was the first senator to endorse his candidacy.
He therefore represents one of the most influential links between the White House and Capitol Hill, at a time when Trump's entire legislative program seems to be just a couple of votes away from near oblivion, as well as an important link between the president and several of the influential conservative groups who boosted Trump's improbable candidacy.
Trump's steady stream of social media taunts of Sessions continued into a second week on Wednesday. Within an hour of the attorney general's arrival at the West Wing for some routine meetings, Trump once again took to Twitter to make clear his anger has not abated.
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/07/hillary_clintons_book_about_ru.html

[FONT=&quot]Hillary Clinton book about 2016 campaign will be 'bombshell'
Clinton, who led in almost every poll before Election Day, chiefly blames Russian hackers and fake-news purveyors for pushing Trump over the finish line ahead of her.
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"Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives," he tweeted. "Drain the Swamp!"
Trump was not supposed to be present at the meeting Sessions was at, and the two have not been face-to-face or even spoken in more than a week.
"I would fire somebody that I did not believe could serve me well rather than trying to humiliate him in public, which is a sign of weakness," GOP Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina told reporters.
Graham and several other Republican senators encouraged Sessions to remain on the job, sustaining the wall of support he's enjoyed from former colleagues in recent days. Not one of them has publicly taken Trump's side.
Senate Democrats, too—including several who are Sessions' ideological opposites—are urging him to stay in his position unless Trump explicitly orders him to leave.
Their political calculation is that the president firing his attorney general could provide the spark that starts focusing more public attention on Trump's legal and ethical challenges in the Russia matter, especially if the president then moves to name a new attorney general seen as willing to dismiss independent counsel Robert Mueller.
—By David Hawkings, CQ-Roll Call
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Who should they support?? Mommy or daddy?? There might be a divorce, oh my, what did I do wrong, it's all my fault:cry:
 
Bill said:
By Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — The Senate majority's No. 2 leader has given President Donald Trump one of the strongest pushbacks from any Republican in Congress this year: Firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions could bring to a halt GOP cooperation with the administration's legislative agenda.
"Well, it's the president prerogative, but he is then going to jeopardize, potentially, his ability to get anything else done here," Majority Whip John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday. "And I don't think that should be his desire or preference."
Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and justice on the state Supreme Court, said he continues to view Sessions as "doing just a fine job" running he Justice Department and someone who "did the right thing" _ for that sake of his own credibility and that of the department—by recusing himself from the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling.
Sessions did so after conceding he had contacts with Russia during the 2016 campaign, when he was a senator from Alabama and one of Trump's most prominent surrogates and political counselors.


Trump asks about firing Jeff Sessions, calls his position 'weak'
President Donald Trump has spoken with advisers about firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and launched a fresh Twitter tirade Tuesday against the man who was the first U.S. senator to endorse his candidacy.

The Senate leader's warning to the White House marked one of the very few times, since Trump became president six months ago, that a GOP lawmaker of any consequence has suggested inflicting any sort of political punishment for the president's out-of-bounds behavior.
And Trump's treatment of Sessions is unprecedented by almost any measure. Not only do presidents customarily dismiss Cabinet secretaries who displease them rather than demean them almost daily, but also Sessions was the first senator to endorse his candidacy.
He therefore represents one of the most influential links between the White House and Capitol Hill, at a time when Trump's entire legislative program seems to be just a couple of votes away from near oblivion, as well as an important link between the president and several of the influential conservative groups who boosted Trump's improbable candidacy.
Trump's steady stream of social media taunts of Sessions continued into a second week on Wednesday. Within an hour of the attorney general's arrival at the West Wing for some routine meetings, Trump once again took to Twitter to make clear his anger has not abated.


Hillary Clinton book about 2016 campaign will be 'bombshell'
Clinton, who led in almost every poll before Election Day, chiefly blames Russian hackers and fake-news purveyors for pushing Trump over the finish line ahead of her.

"Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives," he tweeted. "Drain the Swamp!"
Trump was not supposed to be present at the meeting Sessions was at, and the two have not been face-to-face or even spoken in more than a week.
"I would fire somebody that I did not believe could serve me well rather than trying to humiliate him in public, which is a sign of weakness," GOP Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina told reporters.
Graham and several other Republican senators encouraged Sessions to remain on the job, sustaining the wall of support he's enjoyed from former colleagues in recent days. Not one of them has publicly taken Trump's side.
Senate Democrats, too—including several who are Sessions' ideological opposites—are urging him to stay in his position unless Trump explicitly orders him to leave.
Their political calculation is that the president firing his attorney general could provide the spark that starts focusing more public attention on Trump's legal and ethical challenges in the Russia matter, especially if the president then moves to name a new attorney general seen as willing to dismiss independent counsel Robert Mueller.
—By David Hawkings, CQ-Roll Call
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All these threats flying around in public today, I thought this was only back room stuff!
 
Ever notice how the President almost completely disassociates himself from the Republican Party? His references are like "the Republicans in Congress," "the Republican Health Care effort," almost like he really doesn't want to be grouped with the Party that got him elected, or connected to anything they fail to accomplish. Amazing some of the GOP leadership hasn't reacted before this Session episode
 
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Ever notice how the President almost completely disassociates himself from the Republican Party? His references are like "the Republicans in Congress," "the Republican Health Care effort," almost like he really doesn't want to be grouped with the Party that got him elected, or connected to anything they fail to accomplish. Amazing some of the GOP leadership hasn't reacted before this Session episode
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They needed him to sign the bills and for Supreme Court picks
 
archives said:
Ever notice how the President almost completely disassociates himself from the Republican Party? His references are like "the Republicans in Congress," "the Republican Health Care effort," almost like he really doesn't want to be grouped with the Party that got him elected, or connected to anything they fail to accomplish. Amazing some of the GOP leadership hasn't reacted before this Session episode
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Ever heard the Trumpy talk about "the swamp"? Who do you think he meant with that, and is there a stronger way of disassociating himself from "that"?

Of course, the Trumpy still operates under the assumption that the U.S. of A. is his family business, and should be operated that way. That's why he isn't hiring a lot of people, saving the U.S. a lot of bucks for folks otherwise tasked with, say, formulating a proper foreign policy. If those he actually hired serve him - him! - well, he might not fire them, at least if they stay out of his, the trumpy's, lime light. And that's why Sessions, despite the early support for the Trumpy, is such a disappointment. Sessions is by all accounts a mouth-breathing reactionary who thinks that the law should bend to his reactionary agenda. It's still an ideology that the law should serve, and the right one at that, and Cornyn whole-heartedly agrees. That's why he is fine with Sessions, the disaster, for the law openly to serve the Dear Leader is taking things a notch too far.

So yes, the Trumpy probably agonizes a lot over Sessions, and folks in his entourage probably tell him that firing Sessions after having fired Comey looks bad on TV. Just imagine, he can't fire his lackeys and underlings because it looks bad. Naturally, somehow he is "associated" with his underlings, but admitting in public statements that he has something to do with them - other than to denigrate or fire them in case they fail to be properly docile and subservient - isn't part of the Trumpy's playbook. So, that's a veritable tightrope to walk. Nobody told him beforehand that Presidencing could be that complicated!
 
Owl'd You're Up! said:
Ever heard the Trumpy talk about "the swamp"? Who do you think he meant with that, and is there a stronger way of disassociating himself from "that"?

Of course, the Trumpy still operates under the assumption that the U.S. of A. is his family business, and should be operated that way. That's why he isn't hiring a lot of people, saving the U.S. a lot of bucks for folks otherwise tasked with, say, formulating a proper foreign policy. If those he actually hired serve him - him! - well, he might not fire them, at least if they stay out of his, the trumpy's, lime light. And that's why Sessions, despite the early support for the Trumpy, is such a disappointment. Sessions is by all accounts a mouth-breathing reactionary who thinks that the law should bend to his reactionary agenda. It's still an ideology that the law should serve, and the right one at that, and Cornyn whole-heartedly agrees. That's why he is fine with Sessions, the disaster, for the law openly to serve the Dear Leader is taking things a notch too far.

So yes, the Trumpy probably agonizes a lot over Sessions, and folks in his entourage probably tell him that firing Sessions after having fired Comey looks bad on TV. Just imagine, he can't fire his lackeys and underlings because it looks bad. Naturally, somehow he is "associated" with his underlings, but admitting in public statements that he has something to do with them - other than to denigrate or fire them in case they fail to be properly docile and subservient - isn't part of the Trumpy's playbook. So, that's a veritable tightrope to walk. Nobody told him beforehand that Presidencing could be that complicated!
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your lack of insight is incredible.......
 
archives said:
Ever notice how the President almost completely disassociates himself from the Republican Party? His references are like "the Republicans in Congress," "the Republican Health Care effort," almost like he really doesn't want to be grouped with the Party that got him elected, or connected to anything they fail to accomplish. Amazing some of the GOP leadership hasn't reacted before this Session episode
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The Republican Party as it is constituted in Congress did not get Trump elected

In fact they worked against him

The struggle is real. Us real Americans now know who are real enemies are and they will be dealt with politically. God is dealing with McShamnesty. My guess is that when McShamnesty croaks Grahamnesty will probably jump in the grave with him.

The cunt Murkowski is just bitter because she was primaried

Cunt Collins is somewhat consistent as she never supported repeal.

My guess this was plotted by McCuntell. He thinks he is being cute and giving his members cover using a cunt no up for reelection and a dipshit with one foot in the grave.
 
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