I haven’t seen a good Southerner on Southerner fight since Designing Women was on TV. With McConnell in Session’s corner and Graham in tRump’s corner, I guess this will have to do.
Graham keeps needling this issue to curry favor with Trump. Lindsay foolishly thinks that Trump has little to fear from a Sessions flip. Trump actually knows what he has to fear from Sessions.
What’s McConnell’s angle? There’s more to his statement of apparent support than meets the eye. Remember, the man can play - and win - “the long game” better than any pol in the last century.
“I have total confidence in the attorney general. He ought to stay exactly where he is,” McConnell told a cluster of reporters on Capitol Hill.
poor Lindsey
I never believed McConnell and Sessions liked Trump but they needed him for their beliefs.
Now that they have used him they are willing to destroy him if he gets in their way.
Not if Lindsey has his way with Donald, so to speak! Might last longer than 2 minutes…yikes!
I think this is about at the level of a double dog dare.
McConnell knows the trouble little Jeffy Sessions will make and isn’t willing to take the chance.
Noipe
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The modern day Republican Party belongs to Trump. Even if ‘Cecil’ considered going to war, he’d be going up against a guy who’s still popular with McConnell’s caucus.
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he’s likely irritated that Graham and Grassley talked ‘out of turn’.
McConnell is party to all this b.s.
He threatened to go the press, if IC officials told what they knew in '16 and he was against Mueller’s appointment and is against any bill protection.
Let’s see what he says in '19.
This was exactly my question. McConnell serves only McConnell. So what’s in this for McConnell?
Well look who woke up!
As underhanded as McConnell is I believe there is an ulterior motive for his statement like the backstabbing, suckup Graham. Is Sessions feeling Grahams knife in his back?
Julia Sugarbaker is my spirit animal.
“Us good ole Southern racists gotta stick together,” he added.
I don’t buy this for a minute. Not for one.
When the heat in the kitchen gets hot enough, McConnell will fall in line.
Nixon’s AG ended up going to prison.
Hmmm. Maybe someone else is getting ducks in a row.
Someone who could save the country and what’s left of the Republican Party.
I think that Graham wants to be AG. I think that McConnell wants Sessions to remain AG because 1. His policy goals align with Sessions’ more than with Graham’s 2. He can pull a power play against Dump without whipping up the deplorables with overt opposition and 3. He doesn’t care for Lindsey all that much and he’s not above spite.
Secessions was the third Congressthing to endorse Trump.
The first two are in bad legal trouble.
If he’s no longer AG, Secessions might be third in a row in the dock.
But he has as much loyalty as any other Trump thug.
What does he have on Turtle?