Li’l Jeffy will do anything, say anything, and put up with anything to hold on to the power he has finally gotten his greasy little fingers on.
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And now I get who Scaramucci was talking about when he talked about paring back the staff. I agree that Sarah Huckabee is a tragedy in motion, but it will take more than a paring to get her off the stage.
“If people are very, very thin-skinned, I think it’s going to be super tough to work for this President,” he added.
“And there’s only enough room at 1600 for one such person.”
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Bingo!
Typical Senate collegial greeting and opening to hearing, wordy and effusive praise, glad to see you yada yada.
Translation: “Hey Jeff, so you got shitcanned. Also, about that lie you told us during confirmation? Anyway, this will hurt us more than it hurts you - strap in.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
The “not understanding” which the salaries depend on is not necessarily static.
I personally am not holding my breath.
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Bears repeating.
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Sessions has as much dirt on Trump as Trump has on him?
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For a moment, I read that as “chum” …
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There is a risk, though, and it may or may not be slight.
Will Senate confirm another AG nominee?
In this environment?
If not, Rosenstein - who appointed Mueller - will be Acting AG.
I’ve no idea how the rest of the chain of command in DOJ goes, but it’s unlikely that Trump can quickly get a supporter into either AG or Deputy AG. He might be able to bump someone up as Acting AG without needing Senate confirmation.
Would anyone in the White House understand that risk? Dunno. Crazy or stupid?
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“Most people don’t know what a ‘mulligan’ is - it’s a golf term, it means fixing a mistake.”
“Full confidence of the President”?
A struggling big time coach, upon receiving dreaded "Vote of Confidence from team owners
(aka “The kiss of death”), starts looking for a new job.
Start looking, Lil’Jeffy.
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The third slot at DoJ is Associate Attorney General. That would be Rachel Brand. As best I can surmise, Rosenstein would automatically become acting AG if Sessions goes, and the only way Brand becomes acting AG without Senate confirmation is if Rosenstein also goes. (Or Rosenstein could stay but recuse himself on Russia.)
I know nothing about her.
Thanks - forgot about having previously heard her name.
Some interesting things in her past, but whether she’d be a pliable as Trump wants remains to be seen.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is as ruthlessly dishonest as her father, who once sold “miracle health cures” directly from his presidential candidate website.
How would it be possible for any healthy news site to accurately report anything she said? Why, by simply reporting her words, reporting on her favorable “hits,” and providing zero follow-on analysis.
What’s “fake” about the news is that it rarely goes far enough to challenge the lies and get to the truth. No one is served by reporters tempering their viewpoints to accommodate transparent lies. A lie is a lie, and it demands to be called out. Report that.
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I think that fear of a replacement for sessions is one of the things making everyone tiptoe around the issue for the short term. The white house doesn’t want another complete effing mess, and there’s a possibility that Rosenstein as acting AG might undo some of Sessions work on civil rights and voting rights rollback. Democrats and sane republicans don’t want whoever trump would nominate (or appoint out of the blue as acting AG), because they’d be sure to can Mueller and ratchet the crazy up to 13.
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No mulligans involved here … Trump just wants Beauregard to “repent”.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Scaramucci said that Trump’s criticism was “not really that big of a deal.”
This is a losing battle, I’m sure. I constantly hear – and am annoyed by – people expressing reservations about something with phrases like “It’s not that big of a deal,” or “It’s not that good of a movie” etc. As far as I know, the “of” is superfluous; you just say “not that big a deal” or “not that good a movie.” Adding the “of” seems unnecessary and grating to me. I’d be interested in your thoughts on this point.
The reader is correct in feeling that the “of” in “not that big of a deal” is superfluous. As one of the writers at The Grammarphobia blog points out, “An extra word can be justified if it serves an emphatic or supportive purpose, as in “first time ever” or “three different times.”
Adding of to “not that big a deal” and “not that good a movie” serves no emphatic or supportive purpose.
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Hucakbee-Sanders has a misshapen head and looks like an uneven-eyed Ms. Potatohead with a wig on. WTH?
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Asked if Trump is still frustrated months later, Sanders said, “Certainly, but I think again he’s mostly frustrated with the overall process.”
He’s mostly frustrated to find that the wheels are coming off his clown car
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