Everything for McConnell currently boils down to does this help or hurt my chances of retaining the majority in the Senate? And stirring up a shitstorm around firing (and then attempting to confirm a replacement for) the AG would definitely not help.
That’s because Sessions has a higher rank in the super secret republican dolphin sex ring (I could be getting the name wrong, but I think it is scrutantem delphina uident sexus clava) so McConnell has to protect him from exposure because Sessions could spill the beans about all the crazy dolphin sex republicans have been having if he gets angry. Agent Z told me! It has to be true!
Well I think there are some people who can see.the hand writing on the wall. They have held out as long as they can, but now their jobs are on the line. Ms McCain is out of her mind along with the rest of NC state government; the jig is up.
Pass the brain bleach, puh leeze!
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Toobin is on too.
The trump whisperer.
The Tortoise and the Snare.
McConnell is putting up a good fight with the dementia setting in, and it is. By 2020 he’ll be pretty spaced out. Good, we need to toss him into the dumpster fire of Republican history, with votes. In 2020. And please, oh please, oh please…have the Dems win the Senate this November! Pretty please, with sugar on top!
McConnell says this now so he can concoct some excuse later as to why it’s ok to replace Sessions. Show he’s ‘reasonable’ today so later he can lean on it. Disingenuous liar.
My take is McConnell can’t confirm a replacement anytime soon and would then incur the wrath of the orangeone immediately.
McConnell isn’t worried about doing the right thing, he’s worried about the midterms, and his own job. He wants them to STFU for now and quit rocking the boat.
The wily McConnell is no fool, unlike, say, Nunez or, to a lesser extent, Lindsey Graham. McConnell does not want much in an AG; Session is sufficiently evil and useless and unprincipled – but not too unprincipled – that McConnell is OK with him.
Regarding Nunez, he’s a dairy farmer (nothing wrong with that), but I feel sorry for his cows.
Wouldn’t you prefer to see the all-out authoritarianism of the mofo president and his entourage? It would be more exciting…
ICE could easily be fully converted into Donald’s Sturmabteilung – a thuggish police force just like AH had in the early days. But of course he could skip that step: he’s already Der Führer!
Turtle knows that Sessions’ real value to the GOP is instilling terror and angst in blacks and other minorities across the country. That is such valuable currency within the GOP cesspool that there is virtually nothing Drumpf could ever do/say that would dislodge Sessions from his racist power position. This entire administration is about hurting blacks and minorities. McConnell knows that the real work/goal of the GOP is turning the US back to the Jim Crow Utopia that conservatives masturbate about. Sick bastards with heinous motives.
These c—suckers know the final bell is approaching, and they’re trying to get into position to have the least amount of orange shit on them as possible. McConnell wants Sessions to stay in there and draw as much fire as possible. Graham is playing both sides more than anyone else at this point. He’s trying to help Sessions escape while making dotard think he’s an ally. I think the little stink elf wants to be fired. He didn’t mind doing some fellatio in order to check off some Klan boxes, but felonies are a different matter.
All these scumbags underestimated the degree of psychopathy they would be facing when this started. The only thing they know now is that they don’t know how vast this catastrophe will end up being.
I guess that means he’s prepared to steam Trump’s pants while “the boss” is wearing them. Didn’t they call Hope Hicks the Trump Whisperer when that was her job?
McConnell knows how to count votes better than anyone else in the GOP. He knows that Schumer will unify his caucus to block anybody Trump would nominate to replace AG Sessions, and potentially fire or kneecap Mueller/Rosenstein. McConnell likely keeps the Senate in GOP hands in November, but it will only be by a SLIM margin (1-3 votes). That means if he loses Ben Sasse and one or two others (Mitt Romney ?) on a Trump-selected hack, NOBODY will be AG until President Warren or Warner or Booker appoints one in 2021. I think he is right. Trump cannot fire McConnell, but McConnell can lose the Senate in 2020 EASILY and he plays a long game. The only thing that wills save the GOP in 2021 is to retain control of the Senate. Better to have a bird in the hand - Sessions - than two in the bush.
McConnell also doesn’t want to deal with a special election for Graham’s seat, which is otherwise safe until 2020.
Keep in mind, Trump could replace Sessions with anyone currently confirmed to their Executive Branch position by the Senate. Like… DeVos. No confirmation needed.
Talk is cheap, Mitch. Abdicating your constitutionally mandated oversight role … priceless!