WHEN DOES TRUMP DUMP SESSIONS?

Damn you, Michael Goodwin.

I was intending to write a blog today pointing out that Jeff Sessions is a useless, counterproductive Attorney General and asking what possible reason Donald Trump has for keeping him on for even one day longer.  But the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin beat me to it.

Excerpted from his latest commentary:

Jeff Sessions is a man in search of a banana peel. When he can’t find one to step on, he supplies his own.

Sessions is not a bad man, but he is a bad attorney general, as he demonstrated again Tuesday.

By writing to Republicans in Congress just hours before he was scheduled to testify that he was open to appointing a special prosecutor to examine former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail case and the notorious Uranium One deal, Sessions primed the pump for a really big show.

Democrats arrived furious and Republicans gleefully expected an ah-ha moment. Both came away unsatisfied and unhappy.

Unfortunately for Sessions, the old conceit in journalism — that if both sides are angry at your story, you’ve done something right — doesn’t apply to being attorney general. When nobody’s happy, including your boss, you’re failing.

While Democrats and Republicans are angry at Sessions for different reasons, there’s no rule saying both can’t be right.

His faulty judgment has become a calling card, which is why I’ve argued that appointing Sessions was Trump’s biggest personnel mistake; yesterday’s performance did nothing to change my view.

Sessions’ decision to recuse himself, then tell Trump, from anything related to the 2016 campaign led to the enormous cloud over the White House that has distorted the first year of the new presidency.

Consider the alternative. Imagine that Robert Mueller were still in private law practice, and there were no open-ended investigation of everybody connected to the Trump campaign.

Then all of Washington would have to accept the election as settled and deal with Trump as president, not as a pinata on a short-term lease.

So while Trump erred in naming Sessions, Sessions is responsible for taking the job when he knew he would have to sit out the most important matter before his agency, one that increasingly smells like an extension of the Democrats’ bid to overturn the election.

There is more.  A lot more.  But this should give you a good idea of what is fatally wrong about Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

And that goes 100% as much for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who, it seems to me, is operating as a Democrat mole within the Justice Department.

For God sake, Mr. President, get rid of them both.

Consider someone with a combination of integrity and gonads for the job.  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) immediately comes to mind, but there are others as well.  And, by all means, do it as soon as possible.

What about this week?  It will give me one more thing  to be grateful for the Thursday after next.