What’s the right proportion of butter, flour and egg when you make a chocolate cookie, using baking chocolate?
…Mueller will likely want to question Sessions about a number of matters, ranging from his decision to conceal his meetings with Kislyak to the terms of his recusal from the Russia investigation to his participation in Comey’s ouster.
I hope one of those “matters” is the actual purpose of Sessions’ meetings with Kislyak. The “Senate business” explanation makes almost no sense. What Senate business, precisely? And were these meetings attended by other Senators and aides? Were extensive meeting minutes created? That’s the normal practice when a Senator meets with officials of a foreign government, to avoid potentially disastrous misunderstandings.
Speaking of which, you’d think that the relevant committees would have records, if Sessions spoke to Kislyak on official business.
Precisely. That’s the longstanding, normal practice. Having a legislator conducting secret diplomacy is just not on.
So AG Sessions: “What are the proper protocols between meetings with the WH and the FBI?” Have you or your staff explained these to President Trump, WH Counsel, WH Chief of Staff, and any other WH advisors? Do you normally rebuff an underling when they ask for help in keeping protocols in place? And finally AG Sessions do you have enough stature to follow the law and protocols against friends and especially the President?"
I was actually just about to learn how to make chocolate chip cookies, so would like to know too: any comments welcome.
On Sessions, after his career in Alabama there is nothing that is too bad to happen to him, and his reckoning will come. Meanwhile, as has been pointed out elsewhere, they have all learned from Trump that almost all of the assumptions about limits on bad behavior are no more than conventions. He simply ignores the rules, it has worked for him all his life, and now the entire Republican party is doing the same without even a pretense of justification.
But this is government, not business, and you can’t just declare bankruptcy and move on to the next scam: this will go on for a while, perhaps far too long a while, but cognitive dissonance will take you only so far before the elastic snaps. It’s started happening here in the UK, and when it goes in the US all hell will break loose.
I only hope that when they get their next chance to pick up the pieces and fix the mess, the Democrats can stop obsessing about the motes in their own eyes and keep right on yelling about the beams in their opponents’
I’m pretty confident that Democrats will find a way to crash and burn like never before, should Trump be removed from office.
The hard left will demand full control of the party, be refused, and then all hell will break loose.
Except that the Republicans will only ask:
What is your office doing to find & prosecute leakers?
What is your offfice doing with regards to unmasking?
Republican query: “why does Trump love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?”
Even with softballs, he will either cite executive obstruction or reveal that his original baptism was under the name Jefferson Buchanan Sessions.
My mother’s chocolate refrigerator cookie recipe uses 3 squares of unsweetened chocolate, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 3/4 tsp salt, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla. Mix dry ingredients together. Cream butter with the sugar then add egg and vanilla. Melt the chocolate and add to the wet ingredients and mix well. Gradually add the flour mix to the wet mix and combine well. Turn onto a large piece of waxed paper and shape into a roll 2 inches in diameter. Chill several hours. Slice dough 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick. Place on an increased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes.
Did you enjoy the Cabinet “meeting” strokefest yesterday? And was your praise of the president sincere?
Also: “The struggle of class against class is a what struggle? A what struggle?”
To quote SNL Sessions: “so we all know there are two types of crime: regular, and black.”
On the matter of AG Sessions’ recusal, Rachel Maddow made a really good point last night–even if Sessions throws credulity to the wind and claims that as far as he was concerned Dir. Comey’s firing was all about his extraordinary announcement of the Clinton emails, that too would violate his recusal, which specifies he would recuse from anything having to do with the election.
Why should we expect Sessions to be truthful under oath this time? Isn’t one of the problems here that he lied under oath before, and also on his form, which he swore was truthful?
His defense last time was that he didn’t intentionally mislead the committee but rather simply forgot some minor details. If he lies again it establishes a pattern of behavior and calls into doubt his previous excuses.
(Also, don’t forget that Sessions was an obnoxious backbencher who made life miserable for people like Grassley, Thune, and others. Patience is wearing thin.)
I can’t get too excited about Sessions’ testimony because there’s just no reason to believe he’ll be truthful about anything that can’t be corroborated by evidence or a third (or fourth) party who is not under investigation. He can lie about whether he lingered after PP kicked him out of the Oval so that he could chat with Comey. He can also lie about what he said, or didn’t say, to Comey when confronted about it afterwards. This is a man who was most likely involved in some capacity in helping the Russians undermine his country’s election process, or at the very least was working with the Russians to undermine the sitting president and administration. What’s a little perjury to him? Once you’ve engaged in traitorous activities and perjured yourself once, what’s a little more perjury?
Speaking of Maddow, she also suggested a key question for Sessions (an 8th burning one): Why were the US attorneys fired so abruptly after the Trumpists had explicitly agreed not to do that? And what was Sessions’ role in that firing?
And about that headline: Given that its Sessions, should these be 7 Cross Burning Questions?
If you are using a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe (like from the back of a bag of chips) I like to use mini chocolate chips. I also like to use a cookie dough scoop for uniformity - it looks like a melon baller but when you squeeze the spring-loaded handle the dough is swept out in a neat mound. And use parchment paper lined baking sheets.