I wonder what would be the main characteristic of the people who voted for him the last 20 years would be? And will vote for him again?
” Jeff Sessions Is Back to Take Trump’s Abuse and Cement His Rancid Legacy
In an embarrassing new campaign ad, the former attorney general announces his desire to return to the U.S. Senate.
Apparently, the president warned Sessions against running because he still hates him for not corrupting the Justice Department on his behalf. Hence the hostage video above, where Sessions announces his run for U.S. Senate not by articulating his values or a policy platform, but by slavishly praising Dear Leader. This is what half our politics have been reduced to now: Aging Caucasians expressing breathless devotion to a spray-tanned raccoon whom they all fear like the Babadook. There is no Republican platform on healthcare, inequality, foreign policy, or—don’t laugh—the climate crisis. There is only whatever the president said five minutes ago. Subject to change.
And anyway, Sessions doesn’t deserve a net-positive legacy, assuming that was ever on the table. This was a guy who said the NAACP and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference were “un-American organizations teaching anti-American values.” American values, then, include white supremacy. He also once said, “I thought those guys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.” Sessions claimed this was a joke, though it presaged his genuinely insane assaults on legal weed as attorney general. Apparently, “states’ rights” applies only to certain things.
As a senator, he opposed strengthening hate-crime legislation and helped sabotage the bipartisan immigration-reform bill in 2013. Three black members of Congress—John Lewis, Cedric Richmond, and Cory Booker—took the exceedingly rare step of testifying against a congressional colleague’s candidacy for a Cabinet post during his AG confirmation hearings. In that position, he tried to help rig the 2020 Census with a citizenship question, and his DoJ claimed as a defense that it was trying to stop voter suppression in communities of color. Then it urged the Supreme Court to back voter purges. His Justice Department scaled back efforts to counter white-nationalist terrorism at a time when it is spiking. He ordered prosecutors to pursue the harshest possible penalties in narcotics cases, including the death penalty for some non-violent offenses. He sought to expand federal use of private prisons. He took a machete to the Department’s police-reform initiatives, much of which centered on misuse of force and racial discrimination.
Now he’s back, eager to accept more abuse from The Leader if it means a few more years where he feels the power rushing through his veins. 72-years-old and he can’t get enough. One of his opponents is Roy Moore. Come on, Alabama.”
Like everything Nunes is involved with, this will be a circus.
“On Saturday, Republicans released a wish list of witnesses they would like to call to testify during the public stage of the House impeachment inquiry. The list, which was sent in a letter to Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, included the anonymous whistleblower and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
The letter, written by House Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes, called the inquiry a “sham impeachment process.” Some of the requested witnesses have no involvement in the issue of whether or not President Trump withheld aide to Ukraine to press the country to investigate his rivals—which is what the impeachment inquiry is supposed to be about. Among the people listed is Nellie Ohr, a Russia expert who worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the Steele Dossier during the 2016 election. Her husband, Bruce Ohr, is a Justice Department official who gave the FBI information he learned from Steele alleging that Trump’s close associates had ties to Russian agents. The Ohrs are key figures in Trump’s pet conspiracy theories that the Ukraine and the DOJ attempted to prevent his election and undermine his presidency.
Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer also appear on the list, despite the fact that the inquiry isn’t about their work in the Ukraine (and that there’s no evidence Joe Biden made any effort to protect his son’s interests as Vice President). The witness list makes it pretty clear that Republicans are sticking with the strategy of trying to distract from the mountainous piles of evidence of quid pro quo by pushing conspiracy theories.
Televised impeachment hearings are scheduled to begin next week. Some of the Republicans’ requested witnesses, including Kurt Volker, the former US special envoy for Ukraine, and National Security Council aide Timothy Morrisson, have already testified during the private proceedings.
But as Democrats must approve the minority party’s witness requests, it seems likely that many of these requests will be rejected. Citing concerns for the person’s safety should their identity be be revealed, Schiff has said that the whistleblower may not testify.”
I wonder what would be the main characteristic of the people who voted for him the last 20 years would be? And will vote for him again?
” Jeff Sessions Is Back to Take Trump’s Abuse and Cement His Rancid Legacy
In an embarrassing new campaign ad, the former attorney general announces his desire to return to the U.S. Senate.
Apparently, the president warned Sessions against running because he still hates him for not corrupting the Justice Department on his behalf. Hence the hostage video above, where Sessions announces his run for U.S. Senate not by articulating his values or a policy platform, but by slavishly praising Dear Leader. This is what half our politics have been reduced to now: Aging Caucasians expressing breathless devotion to a spray-tanned raccoon whom they all fear like the Babadook. There is no Republican platform on healthcare, inequality, foreign policy, or—don’t laugh—the climate crisis. There is only whatever the president said five minutes ago. Subject to change.
And anyway, Sessions doesn’t deserve a net-positive legacy, assuming that was ever on the table. This was a guy who said the NAACP and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference were “un-American organizations teaching anti-American values.” American values, then, include white supremacy. He also once said, “I thought those guys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.” Sessions claimed this was a joke, though it presaged his genuinely insane assaults on legal weed as attorney general. Apparently, “states’ rights” applies only to certain things.
As a senator, he opposed strengthening hate-crime legislation and helped sabotage the bipartisan immigration-reform bill in 2013. Three black members of Congress—John Lewis, Cedric Richmond, and Cory Booker—took the exceedingly rare step of testifying against a congressional colleague’s candidacy for a Cabinet post during his AG confirmation hearings. In that position, he tried to help rig the 2020 Census with a citizenship question, and his DoJ claimed as a defense that it was trying to stop voter suppression in communities of color. Then it urged the Supreme Court to back voter purges. His Justice Department scaled back efforts to counter white-nationalist terrorism at a time when it is spiking. He ordered prosecutors to pursue the harshest possible penalties in narcotics cases, including the death penalty for some non-violent offenses. He sought to expand federal use of private prisons. He took a machete to the Department’s police-reform initiatives, much of which centered on misuse of force and racial discrimination.
Now he’s back, eager to accept more abuse from The Leader if it means a few more years where he feels the power rushing through his veins. 72-years-old and he can’t get enough. One of his opponents is Roy Moore. Come on, Alabama.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29736831/jeff-sessions-alabama-senate-announcement-video/
Like everything Nunes is involved with, this will be a circus.
“On Saturday, Republicans released a wish list of witnesses they would like to call to testify during the public stage of the House impeachment inquiry. The list, which was sent in a letter to Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, included the anonymous whistleblower and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
The letter, written by House Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes, called the inquiry a “sham impeachment process.” Some of the requested witnesses have no involvement in the issue of whether or not President Trump withheld aide to Ukraine to press the country to investigate his rivals—which is what the impeachment inquiry is supposed to be about. Among the people listed is Nellie Ohr, a Russia expert who worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the Steele Dossier during the 2016 election. Her husband, Bruce Ohr, is a Justice Department official who gave the FBI information he learned from Steele alleging that Trump’s close associates had ties to Russian agents. The Ohrs are key figures in Trump’s pet conspiracy theories that the Ukraine and the DOJ attempted to prevent his election and undermine his presidency.
Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer also appear on the list, despite the fact that the inquiry isn’t about their work in the Ukraine (and that there’s no evidence Joe Biden made any effort to protect his son’s interests as Vice President). The witness list makes it pretty clear that Republicans are sticking with the strategy of trying to distract from the mountainous piles of evidence of quid pro quo by pushing conspiracy theories.
Televised impeachment hearings are scheduled to begin next week. Some of the Republicans’ requested witnesses, including Kurt Volker, the former US special envoy for Ukraine, and National Security Council aide Timothy Morrisson, have already testified during the private proceedings.
But as Democrats must approve the minority party’s witness requests, it seems likely that many of these requests will be rejected. Citing concerns for the person’s safety should their identity be be revealed, Schiff has said that the whistleblower may not testify.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29746689/house-republicans-impeachment-testimony-hunter-biden-whistleblower/
Schiff is going to have to reel them in tightly.