@layman,
layman wrote:
To me the claim that Sessions lied is just ridiculous. He explained his statement in a completely rational and convincing way. You always have to look at the context of a question and answer.
The same is true about the context of answers by anyone in this administration about denying any "collusion" with the russians. What was intended, at the time, by the charges of collusion was essentially the false charges in the Steele dossier--that Trump was a russian agent, successfully recruited over a five year period. That he had conspired with russia to hack the DNC, and was paying for the operation; that he was being blackmailed to do russia's bidding; and, as further incentive, was being paid billions of dollars in bribes.
These are serious criminal charges involving theft, corruption, and sedition. When Trump adamantly denies "collusion," that's the context. But the cheese-eaters keep moving the goal-posts, ex post facto, so now all they really ever meant by "collusion" was being willing (even eager) to hear what a russian national claimed to know about Clinton.
The cheese-eaters are acting like an extremely jealous wife, a thought I'll pursue in my next post.
As sure as I am that they would love to see it revealed that Trump was and still is an agent of the Russian government either because of hundreds of millions of dollars in direct payments and/or favorable deals, or because they are blackmailing him with
Golden Shower Call Girl videos, at this point anything they can get to loosely stick will be fine with them. Since they are having so much fun and some success with disinformation and innuendo, a
real, provable transgression of any scope will be orgasmic for them.
Just look how far they are trying to go with the idiotic meeting Trump Jr took with the Russian lawyer. There are prominent liberal pundits and politicians tossing around the word "treason," and braying that an e-mail in which the idiot son wrote "I love it!" is, at last, the "smoking gun" for which they've all been questing.
There are a number of voices on the Left (the latest being Gavin Newsom, who longs to be the next governor of California -
if it doesn't secede first...in which case he could shoot for the fledgling nation's first Dear Leader, Chairman, Premier, or Grand Poobah) urging the Democrats and the MSM to break free of their obsession with
Russian Collusion and develop an actual agenda for at least being seen to do something favorable for average Americans. Their common attribute? They can't all rely on Anti-Fa sympathizers to get them elected. However, the Opposition will not be deterred!
They've found what so many patriots long for, a sacred mission to save their beloved America from the clutches of a tyrant! Don't believe they are motivated by love of country? Me neither, but at this point they are like the Bürgermeister and his counsel who, having finally whipped up their townspeople into a frenzy sufficient to see them follow their lead in an assault on Castle Frankenstein, can't put a stop to their march and deny the people their blood and destruction, for fear that the torches and pitchforks will be turned on them.
The Sessions hearing played out just the way anyone with an ounce of awareness of the political climate should have expected. The Democrats threw to the gutter Senate tradition and any pretense of having forged a cordial and cooperative relationship with their Republican colleague from Alabama. In an unprecedented stunt designed to further his transparent desire to be the next president of the US, Corey Booker suddenly found that there were all sorts of "conscience" and "country" reasons to speak out against his fellow senator, despite his acknowledgment that he has enjoyed "collegiality" with Senator Sessions, and especially when they worked together on a bill to give the Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights marchers. (
Imagine that. Booker is willing to be collegial with a racist whose values make him unfit to serve his country, if that's what it takes to pass an important bill awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to people whose courage and influence this nation has completely ignored for decades! He would be the perfect president to take on that villain Vladimir Putin!)
The Senators from the opposition party carefully laid out interlocutory traps for Sessions and the Alabama Senator carefully avoided stepping in them with answers that were very specific to the questions asked. Can you imagine
that?! No Democrat nominee has ever tried to skillfully avoid traps set for them by Republicans! The thought of doing so would never have even crossed their minds!
The only mistake Sessions made was to cave in to the Left's hypocritical attacks (Senator McCasskill's (D-MO) being the most ludicrous) and try and fend them off with a promise of recusal. I don't know if he just cracked under the pressure or if he thought he was offering a gesture that might restore the Senatorial collegiality he had previously enjoyed, but it was the same apocryphal mistake made by Russian families who, one by one, threw their children to the pack of starving wolves running down their sleds, only to be ultimately torn to shreds and eaten themselves.
) such as you and your new buddy, would refrain from posting your usual tripe, I would have mentioned it was annoying and boring a long, long time ago. 