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i say they fire sessions and replace him with the mooch. that man seems like he's got ideas.

sessions isn't going to quit. he believes in what he's doing at justice too much.

trump will fire him tomorrow to distract from healthcare.

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

Thousand percent in favour of firing--the more chaos, the better. I have a tiny bit of sympathy for Sessions--just the ugliness of such a public humiliation of Trump's most loyal guy--that I know will be laughed at, but it's like Tony Bennett so sagely observed in The Oscar: you lie down with pigs, you come up smelling like garbage.

Imagining the quality of people who will fill cabinet vacancies and other appointments under this administration has somehow become even more thrilling and exciting than it was six months ago.

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

yes imo

Trump will soon start tweeting about how unfair it is that he can't appoint currently incarcerated people to run the justice department

xxxp a real turnaround from the hourly doom of thinking they might intentionally amount to anything

xp He can pardon them, can't he?

Trump will soon start tweeting about how unfair it is that he can't appoint currently incarcerated people to run the justice department

Or a certain individual highly placed in the government of the Russian Federation, whose name rhymes with Pladimir Vutin.

Sessions: he mad (allegedly, second hand, etc.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-sessions-is-growing-pissed-at-trump-his-allies-say-and-he-doesnt-plan-to-quit

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has no plans to leave office as friends say he's grown angry with President Donald Trump following a series of attacks meant to marginalize his power and, potentially, encourage his resignation.
“Sessions is totally pissed off about it,” said a Sessions ally familiar with his thinking. “It’s beyond insane. It’s cruel and it’s insane and it’s stupid.”

Buried deeper:

Sessions’ allies also point out that if the president wanted to get rid of Mueller, he could just get rid of Rosenstein. The fact that he hasn’t done so and is, instead, fixated on his attorney general, is treated as evidence that he’s behaving irrationally.
As Trump continues to torment Sessions, some of the AG’s allies have begun advocating steps to re-establish his position inside the administration. In particular, leading conservative voices have begun encouraging Sessions to undo his recusal, arguing that Mueller’s probe has extended beyond activities that happened during the campaign.

Breitbart is none too happy

this Breitbart lede 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/oDy8RyWbUY

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 25, 2017

too bad they can't have a sunny relationship like Clinton and Reno

So @burgessev's latest piece already has @LindseyGrahamSC against skinny repeal pic.twitter.com/gf2SwX1yMr

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) July 25, 2017

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

yes imo

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:59 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why? Would that cause the Republicans to impeach him or would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

More Collins fun

Here's Collins ragging on Farenthold, start at 36:30. "Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas?": https://t.co/BDZBOFRk6a

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 25, 2017

we have to hit rock bottom at max velocity

So annoying that so little leaks about McConnell. At some point I would love to read what on earth he has been doing for the last months.

would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

there is no "putting this matter effectively to rest" at this point. Firing Sessions would sow chaos and drag things out even further, there would be a fight over his replacement, a number of GOP Senators would be super-pissed to see one of their own treated like dogshit, Congress could just re-appoint Mueller, Trump would be getting himself even further into legal hot water (recall that the only reason Mueller's involved in the first place is cuz Trump fired Comey), on and on

there is no upside to it for the GOP, ergo I encourage Trump to do it

Trump only thinks firing Sessions and then Mueller is a solution because he is an idiot

Why? Would that cause the Republicans to impeach him or would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

http://phildellio.tripod.com/scout.jpg

"I want you to get out there and hit back on this death-panel crap, okay? It's completely bogus."

Paul Ryan I understand. He thinks he's smart, and wanted to write a smart bill. But McConnell?

McConnell actually *is* smart and wants nothing but power and to ably serve his paymasters, what's the mystery

Adam Schiff intimated that Congress would just re-appoint Mueller if Trump fired him.

I think it's equally likely that they don't but, I'm not the ranking dem on the intel committee

wait how is paul ryan smart

whoah don't go there
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsylg1.files.wordpress.com%2F2016%2F05%2Fpaul-ryan-epic-douchebag.jpg&f=1

he read a book once!

meanwhile, it looks like some calls were made

Dems insist their anti-BDS bill doesn't criminalize boycotts but willing to change it to not criminalize boycotts https://t.co/HYgBfivY9b

— Ali Gharib (@Ali_Gharib) July 25, 2017

xposts Uh, he swooped in and snagged a much-coveted speakership when no one was looking, oh wait

xp lol!

xxxxpost
Giving Trump hollow victory after hollow victory isn't working well for America, constitutional government, etc. He needs to be defeated. Yes, if Mueller is fired, this gets closer and closer to the new normal and it doesn't bring about the revolution, or any return to constitutional government. We just devolve into a shitpile dictatorship while Republicans snicker.

Colbert otm, the Mooch is totally Scrappy Doo to Trump's Scooby:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Scrappy-doo.png

Everyone else is pretty much a mix of everyone but Velma.

For what it's worth, the "hot take" the Intercept mocks from the Daily Beast is totally correct, and the bill as written is little different from existing law which has made it illegal for businesses to cooperate with Arab League boycott of Israel for 40 years. There are definitely reasons for the ACLU to take issue that that old law, but it has already survived a 1st amendment court challenge, for what it's worth. Yes, as the Intercept says

the text of the bill bans actions “which have the effect of furthering or supporting restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered or imposed by any international governmental organization against Israel or requests to impose restrictive trade practices or boycotts by any international governmental organization against Israel.”

But it doesn't ban all actions with that effect, it bans six specific actions listed below that paragraph, which most definitely do not include "being an advocate for BDS." It's annoying to me that the Intercept would try to make it sound like it bans any action which might have the effect of "furthering" a boycott, though I think this is probably because they're not reading carefully, not because they're intentionally trying to mislead.

I mean, I don't think this is a good law, and I don't really think the old law was a good law, but don't make it say something it doesn't say.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/senate-democrats-drop-nomination-blockage-after-health-care-bill-240939

Now the idea is to pass a meaningless shell to get it to conference, at which point the so-called moderates will have no input at all

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 25, 2017

Mitch's next promise on this will be to put 1 representative of the so-called moderates on the conference cmte. So they can get outvoted.

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 25, 2017

politico story above mentions confirming wray as fbi director if the healthcare bill dies this summer.. I dunno man. the same kinds of people were riding rosenstein's dick before he came on and aside from appointing mueller has been pretty much a bootlicker.

are we down to the nut-cutting yet

aside from appointing mueller has been pretty much a bootlicker

well, you know how people from baltimore are

also, that's a fairly large "aside"

Whoops!

Ivanka Trump retains criminal defense lawyer for Russia probe https://t.co/Ah30Se0EQB pic.twitter.com/O5WwUlPqHw

— The Hill (@thehill) July 25, 2017

Trump should marry her so she can't be compelled to testify against him.

Oh no, not Ivanka! Wither innocence.

I'm pretty much at the point where I can't give the mental energy to upholding the status quo or whatever anymore.. let trump destroy healthcare, let trump fire sessions and mueller. let trump be trump and watch the world burn. the sooner it happens the sooner we can start picking up this fucking mess.

and this is an awful thing to say and probably isnt necessarily true. =(

You've entered accelerationist mode, now you have to start reading Zizek.

Dean Heller is yes on mtp

Ralston's having fun with that one.

another mouthpiece forced out

President Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks....

Scaramucci confirmed to POLITICO early Tuesday that he planned to start by dismissing assistant press secretary Michael Short at a morning meeting, but that move was apparently delayed. Short, who initially said Tuesday that he hadn’t yet been informed of any decision, resigned Tuesday afternoon.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/anthony-scaramucci-changes-white-house-communications-office-240928

Yeah, either posted here or elsewhere Mooch complained that the press was reporting on something he told the press.