He should’ve fired Sessions when he had the chance and I wish the Dems would have encouraged the move when he was considering it instead of freaking out about the plot to fire Mueller. There would’ve been time to block that move AFTER Sessions was out the door.
Because Sessions and Trump are NOT on the same page with DACA. Session wants it repealed, he wants those kids deported and he will stop at nothing. These 10 AGs that are suing the government over DACA were put up to it by Sessions and he’s coaching them and leading their efforts.
**Smapti **, you made pretty much the same point as Septimus did in the Clusterfuck thread and as I noted there, within the past hour I received these two alerts:
CNN: Trump Denies DACA Deal, disputes claims by Pelosi and Schumer
Business Insider: Trump says he’s ‘fairly close’ to deal on ‘Dreamers’ says ‘the wall will come later’.
For the Democrats - what’s the downside to having Donald and Sessions at war with each other? Why would we want Donald and some mystery AG cooperating (at least temporarily, when Donald’s mental condition makes him forget what position he was promoting at the start of his tweets?)
What on earth makes you think that the next AG would be less of a racist than all the other people Donald surrounds himself with?
Donald’s really only flirting with Chuck & Nancy because he’s mad at Mitch McConnell. How would it benefit the Democrats to help smooth out the Republican machine?
Meanwhile, back at the legislative dealmaking ranch: I’m sure Schumer and Pelosi are just frikkin delighted at being led along by the Twit In Chief to believe in a deal strongly enough to go public with it, only to have our god emperor make fools of them the very next day; sure is a great way for 45* to encourage getting Dem votes on anything in the future, eh?
They just made a deal with Trump last week, so they have all the credibility in their claims. (I figure he said something positive but noncommittal.) Plus the announcement angered Trump’s base and forces him to flail around taking both sides of the issue simultaneously; if anyone was made a fool of here it wasn’t Nancy Pelosi.
Yeh, I’d believe them over him in a New York minute. And I still think they’re pretty pissed at him this morning – not that they harbor any illusions about his integrity, but still…
Funny, but during the Republican primary he boasted about his ability to work with the Democratic leadership. The other Republicans criticized him for that.
From Chuck & Nancy’s perspective, it doesn’t really matter if there’s a private deal or not. They can’t trust Donald’s words on anything. In fact, I suspect they didn’t believe Donald’s promises at dinner, which is why they both rushed out and announced that they totally have a deal. They clearly coordinated that.
Making that public announcement puts Donald on the spot. Now he either has to piss off his racist fans or bear the brunt of blowing up his own deals. All Donald wants to do is make deals. Now someone is offering him a deal and he has to blow it up himself! Tragic.
Plus - now the Democrats have cover with Donald! They can say “Hey, Donald, we tried to do a deal with you and you backed out. Call us if you want to get serious”.
It’s just one more thing that’s going to drive a wedge between Donald and the Republicans in Congress when they try to make him live up to his campaign promises. Meanwhile - Breitbart is calling him “Amnesty Don” and Ann Coulter is rooting for him to be impeached.
In then end, putting public pressure on Donald to make a deal - any deal - is more likely to get results for Nancy & Chuck than trying to play discreet.
His tweets are just so weird, given what he can do. If he wants to enact a different, harsher “travel ban”, he can do that (he’ll have to defend it in court, but that’s a given anyway). Did he just forget that he’s the President?
If he wants to whine about ESPN, okay I guess, he can’t do anything about that directly.
Exactly; also, this is why his Policy-by-Tweet tactic is so stupid. He’s apparently reacting to the fizzled bombing attempt on the London Underground a few hours ago. We don’t have any info on who might have carried out the attack, so who, exactly, does Mr. Trump want to ban from traveling to the US now? Muslims (again)? Anyone traveling from the UK? Persons suspected of riding the Underground?
Well, clearly he’d like to. I have to be impressed, however, if large numbers of his base are really so upset that they are willing to give up their daily Sportcenter fix. Somehow I don’t see that happening.
Riding the underground does sound pretty nefarious. I don’t know that I would want anyone like that entering into the country. Why, they may go so far as to advocate for mass transit!
This sort of thing is the upside of having Donald instead Pence. Pence wouldn’t even have dinner with Chuck & Nancy. He wouldn’t even flirt with the enemy or pretend to have a deal. He would continue the gridlock of the past decade.
Donald doesn’t have any principles, Republican or otherwise. He just wants people to LIKE him and vote for him. He wants his name to be on the front page and on everyone’s lips. He doesn’t care how it happens.
I read a report that after Trump berated, excoriated, belittled, insulted, and humiliated him in front of the rest of the WH staff, Sessions wrote a resignation letter - and Trump rejected his resignation.
Call me confused. Why didn’t Sessions then simply write another letter - with copies to the media, along the lines of …
*Dear Resident Chump,
I fucking QUIT. Fuck you and anyone that looks like you. I fucking quit and you can fucking reject THAT, you cheeto looking rat bastard. Now take this letter and fucking choke on it.
Respectfully
The Gollum Looking Guy What Just Fucking Quit Your Sorry Ass.*
