Resign, Sessions

I couldn't have said it better myself:

Today the Washington Post revealed that racist Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III perjured himself during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General.  This is a fairly open and shut case.  Session admits that the meetings took place, yet when my favorite candidate for president for 2020, Al Franken, asked him about meetings between Trump campaign surrogates and Russian officials, Sessions replied:

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”

Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer for the George W. Bush administration (not an administration known for its ethics) believes that this perjury should cost Sessions his job, and I agree.  Painter points out that a similar situation occurred in the Nixon administration, when a man named Richard Kleindienst perjured himself during his confirmation testimony, and later had to step down.  Of course, Kleindienst lied about his communications with the White House involving a case against I.T.T.  Sessions lied about his involvement in Russian efforts to subvert the democratic process and effect the outcome of an election, which any sane person would argue is a much bigger deal.

This is where we are.  The Stain is struggling to meet the ethical standards set by Richard Nixon.

But hey, don't take my word for it, or even Richard Painter's.  Sessions himself said that perjury was a sufficient crime to cost a person his office.  He is on record stating that Bill Clinton's lies about his sex life were the reason he voted to have Clinton removed from the presidency.

As of this writing, Sessions has now agreed to recuse himself from any investigation into Russian tampering in the election, but this isn't close to good enough.  He wasn't qualified to be Attorney General in the first place, and he proved it before even taking the oath of office.  The Stain has no moral center, and is unlikely to fire him.  He needs to resign.