What will it profit a (wo)man to gain the whole world and lose [one's] own soul? Or what can a (wo)man give in exchange for [one's] soul?
So memorably said the Master those many moons ago. And guess what? The truth don't change, folks. It's the same 'yesterday, today and forever'.
Erstwhile US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions (I believe I blogposted about in some detail some considerable time ago) has now admittedly *'long since' received his marching orders from his own erstwhile 'Commander-in-Chief'...and thus and so, following hard upon the heels of the American midterm elections, was asked to submit/tender his resignation from the post...and forthwith got given an early (if much- and long-expected) 'Christmas present'/Thanksgiving Gift: only he himself was the sacrificial victim.
Sessions, despite his well-canvassed and problematic, racist - though non-KKK - past (far as I'm aware; and no, I'm not splitting straws - there's a helluva difference), is of the honourable old school. Yes, perhaps a tad naive - in offering/tendering his resignation (like a lamb to the slaughter) - and then, rather than being reinstated (which he could hardly have realistically expected, surely), being summarily dismissed, sacked, given the sack, by his Boss-in-Chief.
Yes, the dear fellow committed the cardinal political sin of not reading the tea-leaves...but I'd argue that makes him more of a decent and honourable fellow (as a direct correlation); he perhaps 'expected the best' (and hence a more favourable outcome), in the best tradition of those who ever and always - yes, often gullibly - expect the best of others...who themselves often have no such qualms and scruples.
As so many have argued - of those, moreover, who have long backed Trump taking this measure - after saying he'd recuse himself in the Mueller (sp?) investigation, Sessions oughta have tendered his resignation forthwith...sensing he was serving an extremely obtuse and irascible character...who would only ever be satisfied with 100%, obsequious, butt-licking compliance/acquiescence...on all fronts.
Though I've much more to say (already penned) upon this matter, let me conclude for the time being by citing some typical but I would argue sadly misguided and misdirected commentary upon the subject. To wit, those of well-known and longtime CBN Host, **the 700 Club's one-time (1988) wannabe Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who remarked that...the effective role JS was supposed to play/script and narrative he was meant to follow...was (as follows):
He [i.e. Jeff Sessions] was the one meant to do the blocking and the tackling for his/the team (i.e. to defend his leader/'captain' (and thus also team) from their opponents)...he just didn't do it...he recused himself over some very minor (incident)...
Really? No, that's a wholly partisan take on affairs. An attorney-general (at least of a long-established Westminster-type democracy based upon the good traditions of British common law and the Magna Carta etc) is meant - is solemn-bound, in fact - to defend and uphold his nation's constitution...and an American Constitution upholder like PR ought to know that more than anyone.
*And as so often, it's taken me considerable time to post this, though I wrote it out in freehand pretty well the very day the long-expected announcement was confirmed and declared. Procrastination is a terrible taskmaster whenever we let it tyrannize us...as an unfriendly imp bedevilling our footsteps.
**As shown on the weeknightly Shine TV channel (the very day following this pronouncement).
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