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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Fires Andrew McCabe
From the Washington Post:
Published in PoliticsAttorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.
Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., noting that both the Justice Department Inspector General and the FBI office that handles discipline had found “that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
I thought this post was about Andrew McCabe getting fired for being less than truthful.
What in the world does Gary’s, or Fred’s, or anyone else’s campaign contributions, or various political positions, have to do with the subject at hand?
Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue. Most of the later posts have nothing to do with the issue.
Here are a couple of updates:
McCabe just made life tough for Comey and the special counsel
The FBI’s Blood Feud: “This Is Going To Get A Lot Uglier Before It’s Over”
Not a bad percentage for Ricochet.
On the other hand, HRC’s campaign slogan was “I’m with her,” while Trump’s was “Make America Great Again.” Why Hillary thought it might work to be using a slogan even a modern day homecoming queen wouldn’t use, I don’t know.
And if Trump the non-idealogue continues to keep the stock market skyrocketing, continues to end weird “Paris Accord” agreements, gets some reputation points for the tax cuts, and puts an infra structure deal in place, I won’t mind his being that way at all. (With added points for the active role he has taken with regards to eliminating sex trafficking.)
Exactly. What I mean is, where he comes from intellectually –where he literally has to come from—isn’t a big asset for having a conservative point of view at all. “Debt guy” “Low interest rate guy.” He’s not some productivity genius outside of constructing buildings. He’s not a genius manager or entrepreneur. He knows jack about civics. He obviously lacks civic experience. He’s good at other stuff, though.
Many posts lose their way to post Gary drift.
Maybe, but usually the digressions are more interesting than playing “Gary is a Democrat” as an ad hominem to dismiss the relevant parts of criticism of McCabe’s firing.
Plus, every “Gary is a Democrat” comment give both him and Fred ample opportunity to ignore actual responses to their actual arguments about the actual topic. Specifically that their argument is absurd because it presumes either that
A. McCabe didn’t really do anything wrong, OR
B. There is some point in time before McCabe is entitled to full retirement that he becomes entitled to full retirement.
I am tired of addressing the “Gary is a Democrat” meme. I filed an OP on Marital Advice from a Divorce Lawyer.
And yet you donate to Hillary Clinton, who is the worst person to get close to the presidency since Aaron Burr.
I suppose Bill Kristol could recite a similar litany.
I would encourage you to read two books. One is Pat Buchanan’s “Nixon’s White House Wars” in which he mentions Trump. If only Nixon had had Trump’s sense of humor and his self confidence.
The other is Jim Webb’s “Born Fighting,” which almost predicts the Trump presidency although it was published in 2004.