Senate Confirmation of Sessions

It’s been a predictably disgraceful process in the U.S. senate today. Watching every, single republican roll over and give immense praise to senator sessions (the PE’s pick for attorney general). Listening to Ted Cruz (a man who had nothing but abhorrence for the PE during his campaign for president) – listening to this, apparent, two-faced hypocrite give his praise to the PE’s pick for attorney general while listing a slew of things that happened under our former attorney general’s office.

The item on Ted’s list that stuck out to me as particularly hypocritical was when operation “Fast and Furious” failed. He was quick to blame the U.S. Attorney General (at the time) Eric Holder as was the case with the entire GOP during the hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. What he didn't mention was that the operation failed due to debacles at the state level in Arizona within the DOJ and ATF. He mentioned the ramifications that happened with this operation, but failed to mention how guns are sold to the Mexican drug cartels and how guns sold in the U.S. to drug cartels (or other criminals) wind up killing many other law enforcement agents and many more, average, everyday U.S. citizens.

It’s because of republican legislators (particularly Ted Cruz as he’s promoted himself making “Texas Bacon” with an automatic rifle) refusal to work with the Democrats -especially President Obama - enforce the law. "The law," as in, a law that already exists. A law that requires all sellers of firearms to conduct and obtain criminal background check information prior to the release/sale of any firearm. Senator Cruz, also, failed to mention that he and his fellow republicans in the U.S. senate and congress refuse to do any commonsense reform with gun laws. Commonsense reforms like requiring mental health diagnoses to be part of the background check information that is obtained. Democrats have proposed other measures like prohibiting sales of automatic weapons to the general public. 

The confirmation hearings are, essentially, bull shit in that a committee made up of democratic and republican senators asking questions to be answered by whichever nominee has come before that committee. Wait, hear me out. The reason it is bull shit is a two-sided coin. On one side, the nominee might be an honest individual with a lot of integrity. In that case any “gotcha” questions asked in the hope of catching the nominee telling a lie will make whomever asked the question look foolish; thus, “getting” themself. The “liar-liar-pants-on-fire” nominee may get “got” by the opposition, but the committee members who share a party with the nominee (such as the case now) will praise even the biggest liar. It’s quite, literally, nauseating to watch the senate republicans all but offer fellatio to former senator Sessions with hopes of the PE’s having climaxed knowing that he has his harshest critics within “the party” offering up their “lip service” in any way that’s possible.

Yoo-hoo, GOP of Washington D.C. You’re disgusting and despicable. I am not, merely, disturbed by your blatant, repetitive hypocrisy at this point. I’m sickened by the fact that a couple of you (Lindsey Graham and John McCain) had me fooled into believing you may do the right thing with the president defect – I mean, elect. I don’t have to ask how you can move your mouths to tell those lies, no. My question is to me. It is, how could you fall for that shit?