This is why I fully expect McConnell and Ryan to FULLY recess the Senate and House to go out for the Mid-Terms.
This will allow Trump to fire Sessions and do a Recess-Appointment of someone he totally controls for AG (Devine Nunes?). He will also fire Wray over at the FBI and recess-appoint Rudy Guilliani as the new Director of the FBI.
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Uncle Ped Nugent and David Clarke want a shot at it too…
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Oh, he’ll do it.
The confirmation will fail, but he’ll do it.
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So true… it also includes a week long anal probing with a rusty rod during confirmation and a jail term after leaving office. On the sadist side it includes harassing minorities, separating families, running concentration camps and more. There should be thousands of sado-masochist lining up for the job.
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Rudy 9/11 Giuliani is not 9/11 chicken. He 9/11 is the greatest 9/11 mayor New 9/11 York 9/11 City ever 9/11 had…
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Oh, Dog, that’s the most horrifying scenario imaginable. 
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This is a strange piece of reporting. Its premise is that Republican bad faith has kind of bottomed out in the matter of replacing Sessions. If that were true, it would be a huge story. But it’s not true. It’s just an illustration of the persistent illusion that the GOP is a normal if extremist party. If Trump nominates an unqualified henchman, Senate Republicans will confirm him. That has been the infallible dynamic:Trump smashes a norm, GOP goes along with it,
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I wonder if any if them will “vacation” in Brazil?
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Only Trump would be disappointed his defense secretary wouldn’t live up to the nickname “Mad dog” with all that word implies. Instead, he has a thoughtful, judicious Secretary which he apparently can’t abide. And “Moderate Mattis” as a jibe is incredibly weak tea. Even his insults don’t zing anymore.
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And their voters will nod and murmur and “forgive” them and vote them right back in to office without a qualm. 
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Mr. Trump, a J. Pirro from Fox News is on the line. She says she is ready and willing to go at a moment’s notice.
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I don’t think you can give credence to current denials of interest by Graham, Lee or Cornyn. However, I do agree that none of them would want to take the AG job, nor would any other qualified, respectable person. Trump has made it crystal clear that he wants the AG to kill the Mueller investigation and to act in a highly partisan manner. Certainly no Senator wants to leave a cushy job for that nightmare, and it’s hard to imagine anyone–other than Devin Nunes perhaps–wanting the job.
As to Secretary of Defense, if the Democrats gain a majority in the Senate, I would doubt that they would allow Cotton to get the job, but they may be ok with Graham. They aren’t going to want to be seen as obstructing on this position. If the Republicans retain control of the Senate, then Cotton might be a possibility, although I question whether Trump would want to put a guy in his cabinet who is likely to be seeking the spotlight.
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Attention, please, from the headline writer.
The word none is a singular noun and takes the singular verb.
“None of them wants the job.”
And now this:
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Actually, you don’t have to be a lawyer to be attorney general. You don’t have to have a law degree, or be admitted to practice, to be a justice on the Supreme Court.
(Historical note: A number of justices on the Supreme Court did not have law degrees. Some of them, like John Marshal, became lawyers before there were law schools. But Justice Robert Jackson “read law” in upstate New York and never went to law school. He said that he would be the last justice not to attend a law school. Today, we need to hope he was right.)
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Perfect excuse for Trump to oversee the investigation himself.
Not if Cardi B has anything to say about it
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Agree. The Republicans have had two years to show us how they will react to an outrageously amoral and alarmingly ignorant president. Party over everything - country, family, principles, constituents.
The pattern is clear. Mumble meaningless comments about “concern” but do nothing. In fact, continue to toady and grovel and sink to the lowest imaginable point in the moral universe, then sink some more. They’ve had time to invent a million excuses and by now we’ve heard them all.
They are completely in thrall to the worst president in our history and apparently incapable of resolving their dilemma. It’s an astounding thing to watch.
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"The plural use, however, is not wrong, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996, p.1230):
Either a singular or a plural verb is acceptably used in a sentence such as “None of the conspirators has (or have) been brought to trial.”
So the headline is fine.
And take it up with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, not me.
You left out Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.
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The job costs more in personal attorney fees than it pays.
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