Some are saying that Trump's Hamilton tweetstorm was meant to be a calculated distraction from his Trump University lawsuit settlement, handing $25,000,000 to people he had defrauded.
And for his legion of delusional racists, it's working:
Mr.B wrote:Booing is mild. Look at how Hillary's supporters rampaged in the streets...and are still whining.
rstrong wrote:Some are saying that Trump's Hamilton tweetstorm was meant to be a calculated distraction from his Trump University lawsuit settlement, handing $25,000,000 to people he had defrauded.
And for his legion of delusional racists, it's working:
Mr.B wrote:Booing is mild. Look at how Hillary's supporters rampaged in the streets...and are still whining.
Stop lying, president trump never settles. He is always right and doesn't have to settle and he always tells the truth.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
rstrong wrote:Some are saying that Trump's Hamilton tweetstorm was meant to be a calculated distraction from his Trump University lawsuit settlement, handing $25,000,000 to people he had defrauded.
And for his legion of delusional racists, it's working:
Mr.B wrote:Booing is mild. Look at how Hillary's supporters rampaged in the streets...and are still whining.
I don't agree with the "block everything no matter what" approach. I didn't like it when the Republicans did it, I wouldn't like it if the Dems did it. But I think they're going to have to stand up to the bully early on or risk getting run over, and trying to knock Sessions out of the box is certainly a reasonable place to start. And no matter who, shouldn't you have to have a law license to be Attorney General? Sessions hasn't practiced law in 20 years. All else being on the up and up, you'd think somebody else would be a better choice. Or maybe to Trump, Sessions not keeping up with the law is a good thing.
I don't know, it's primarily a political and managerial job. In theory, an AG has tons of smart lawyers to research and explain the law to her/him. This is why racist, misogynistic Sessions is so awful - his policies, not his legal credentials.
Subject: Response from Senator Tillis
From: "Senator Thom Tillis" <donotreply@tillis.senate.gov>
Date: Tue, November 22, 2016 3:18 pm
Thank you for contacting me about President-Elect Trump’s decision to appoint Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President in the Executive Office of the President (EOP). I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.
The Appointments Clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority through statute to allow the president to appoint certain government officials of the executive branch without Senate confirmation. Congress exercised this Constitutional power by enacting the Reorganization Act of 1939, which led to the exclusion of most staff members of the newly-created EOP from Senate confirmation. All employees of the Office of the White House, of which Mr. Bannon will form a part, serve at the pleasure of the president, and the Senate has no say in their selection. However, it is a Constitutional requirement that ambassadors, Supreme Court justices, and other principal officers of the United States receive Senate confirmation.
I do appreciate your passion about Steve Bannon’s political past, but it is not the role of the Congress to prevent his employment for President-Elect Donald Trump in the Office of the White House without further legislative action. If it were, a Congress controlled by the opposition party could handicap a newly elected president by objecting to his entire inner circle of advisors. This would effectively serve to thwart the will of the people in their choice of president. Should a bill come up in the Senate that addresses this issue, be assured I will keep your views in mind....
Sincerely,
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
U.S. Senator
Coward. As a Republican and Trump supporter you certainly can speak up privately and publicly in opposition to installing a racist and misogynist serial liar in the White House, regardless of the lack of a confirmation vote, Pontius Pilate.
Vrede too wrote:I don't know, it's primarily a political and managerial job. In theory, an AG has tons of smart lawyers to research and explain the law to her/him. This is why racist, misogynistic Sessions is so awful - his policies, not his legal credentials.
Sure it's his policies and former (and apparently still) racist attitude, but if you're in a position of being chief law enforcement official, shouldn't your policies be based on sound legal principles? A lot has changed in the last 20 years that Sessions has been cloistered in the Senate.
Not much, but there's the possibility that some in the GOP share our disgust for racist and misogynist serial liars like Bannon, or at least think that they harm the GOP's image.
Vrede too wrote:I don't know, it's primarily a political and managerial job. In theory, an AG has tons of smart lawyers to research and explain the law to her/him. This is why racist, misogynistic Sessions is so awful - his policies, not his legal credentials.
Sure it's his policies and former (and apparently still) racist attitude, but if you're in a position of being chief law enforcement official, shouldn't your policies be based on sound legal principles? A lot has changed in the last 20 years that Sessions has been cloistered in the Senate.
He was in private practice, then he was awful as a U.S. Attorney and as Attorney General of Alabama. I have no reason to think that he would be any less awful than he is now if he'd kept his lawyer credentials more current.
True that. I'd rather give more credit to a lawyer from some South American banana republic than Alabama. The only difference is that Alabama doesn't have bananas.
O Really wrote:True that. I'd rather give more credit to a lawyer from some South American banana republic than Alabama. The only difference is that Alabama doesn't have bananas.
Hey, Boat and I take exception to that,
but only a little
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
O Really wrote:True that. I'd rather give more credit to a lawyer from some South American banana republic than Alabama. The only difference is that Alabama doesn't have bananas.
Hey, Boat and I take exception to that,
but only a little
Says they about a state where something like 4 out of the last 5 governors got indicted or run out on a rail. Where the Chief Justice of the AL Supreme Court gets disbarred for refusing to abide by SCOTUS decisions. That re-elected that same Chief Justice after he had already been run off and disbarred once before. I would think the "exception" would be very little. Besides, I figure there's a good reason you guys don't live in Alabama anymore. As if you needed one.
