Jeff Sessions and the Democrats' Politburo Politics
Everyone and everything else seems to be as our government has descended into the ugliest game of finger pointing and character assassination we have seen in years, focusing on -- in an epic role reversal, Democrats miraculously morphing into born-again hawks -- relations with Russia.
And, inadvertently, but perhaps inevitably, just as life imitates art, America is now imitating Russia. Our political life is beginning to resemble the Soviet Politburo, where out of favor politicians were suddenly disappeared or, at the height of the Stalin era, simply murdered. We're not murdering anybody yet, but we're certainly disappearing them.
First to go was now-former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for reasons as yet indeterminate. He evidently talked to the Russians about something, but who knows what? That he was doing his job might even have been among the strongest of possibilities, not that that matters.
Now it's Attorney General Jeff Sessions' turn. He too is evidently guilty of speaking with the Russians, in this case their ambassador, when he was still a senator, once completely en passant at a public event and once, oh-cardinal-sin, in the senator's own office (what a clandestine venue!). What he said, as with Flynn, is as yet indeterminate, but if one is to believe Sessions, it doesn't add up to much. And since two retired U.S. military colonels were present at the meeting, it's hard to imagine Sessions -- even in the extremely remote chance he would consider such a thing -- would collude with the Russian ambassador about the election under those circumstances.
Everyone and everything else seems to be as our government has descended into the ugliest game of finger pointing and character assassination we have seen in years, focusing on -- in an epic role reversal, Democrats miraculously morphing into born-again hawks -- relations with Russia.
And, inadvertently, but perhaps inevitably, just as life imitates art, America is now imitating Russia. Our political life is beginning to resemble the Soviet Politburo, where out of favor politicians were suddenly disappeared or, at the height of the Stalin era, simply murdered. We're not murdering anybody yet, but we're certainly disappearing them.
First to go was now-former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for reasons as yet indeterminate. He evidently talked to the Russians about something, but who knows what? That he was doing his job might even have been among the strongest of possibilities, not that that matters.
Now it's Attorney General Jeff Sessions' turn. He too is evidently guilty of speaking with the Russians, in this case their ambassador, when he was still a senator, once completely en passant at a public event and once, oh-cardinal-sin, in the senator's own office (what a clandestine venue!). What he said, as with Flynn, is as yet indeterminate, but if one is to believe Sessions, it doesn't add up to much. And since two retired U.S. military colonels were present at the meeting, it's hard to imagine Sessions -- even in the extremely remote chance he would consider such a thing -- would collude with the Russian ambassador about the election under those circumstances.
