Re: U.S. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions - and progressively-louder and more vehement calls/ demands - chiefly from Trump do-or-die partisans - for his sooner or later replacement.
Though it's with some sense of discomfort/unease I venture to say anything in defence of someone whose background was in the confederate-saturated and saluting, Civil Rights' Era-resistant American South - and who thus 'cut his [political] teeth' in staunchly backing the racist backlash to Martin Luther King et al's and the United States Government and society's radical strides towards desegregation and equal civil rights for blacks in the 1960s -
Those (including the so-called 'Christian Right') backing Sessions' removal from his constitutionally significant position in the U S Government - for, among numerous other 'transgressions' (including calling his Head Honcho a moron), 'recusing' himself from testifying in defence of (or, indeed, against - though this is rarely considered) his Boss in the ongoing electoral collusion deliberations - in favour of someone much more dutifully subservient to Donald Trump, know not what they are about, nor what they are thus, however inadvertently, giving subtle but very real encouragement to...
"Good God, he's not supposed to think for himself...he's (though we daren't say it) meant to be/act like an obedient lapdog to his presidential overlord" I.e. doing nothing whatsoever - in any capacity - to unsettle (much less derail) Trump's increasingly tenuous hold upon the levers of (American political) power. He's there to basically 'do as he's told' - no ifs, buts or maybes (even countenanced).
'Scuse me, folks. Last I heard, that's (i.e. real independence of attitude and approach) the very job description of an Attorney-General. Or am I missing something somewhere?
Somehow I doubt it. No, it's just el usual situation of 'what's good for the goose' is not - is never, in fact - 'good [enough] for the gander'. I.e. whether in New Zealand (and its Attorney-General) - presently (one-time neighbour) David Parker; formerly Chris(topher) Finlayson, I believe - or the U S of A (the only two places I've heard of such a 'political' figure - though doubtless Oz and other Western nations and Western-style democracies have such as well).
If they're (I mean he's or she's) agin' my opponent, it's a-okay...but "hands off" my political allies - that's a real 'no-go' area. Yes, political partisanship at its most basic and very worst.
Same principle for former F.B.I. Director James Comey, incidentally, who, in managing to 'stick it to' and thus - soundly and ever so effectively - brass off (in no uncertain terms) both then Democratic Party Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and now reigning 'Republican' President DJ Trump...
has actually - as *JRR Tolkien's Samwise Gamgee used to put it - proven his quality. Indeed!
*Or perhaps it was Peter Jackson et al's re-interpretation thereof, but whichever...
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