Trump's advisers push him to purge Obama appointees

Frustrated by the gush of leaks, the president's allies say it's time to take action.
By Josh Dawsey 03/02/17
Advisers to President Donald Trump are urging him to purge the government of former President Barack Obama's political appointees and quickly install more people who are loyal to him, amid a cascade of damaging stories that have put his nascent administration in seemingly constant crisis-control mode.   A number of his advisers believe Obama officials are behind the leaks and are seeking to undermine his presidency, with just the latest example coming from reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and apparently misled senators about the interactions during his confirmation hearing......."If you employ people who aren't loyal to you, you can't be surprised when they leak," said Roger Stone, another longtime adviser.......To Read More.....

Barack Obama and His Deep State Operatives Are Attempting to Sabotage the Duly Elected President of the United States
RUSH: It appears, ladies and gentlemen, that the people on our side still haven’t learned a single lesson about how to deal with the Democrat Party and the media, the American left — of course, that’s all the same group of people. It’s patently obvious. It’s really frustrating to me. All of this should have been anticipated. All of this was easily predictable. I think somebody I know pretty well did.  And the way this is all being handled today — and people have the best intentions. The heartfelt desire to defend Jeff Sessions by pointing out the Democrat hypocrisy, when are we gonna learn that Democrat hypocrisy doesn’t exist? There is no such thing as Democrat hypocrisy in the media. You’re never gonna beat these people back by pointing out how they’ve done the same thing that they’re accusing us of doing. It’s never gonna work! This story is not about Jeff Sessions....

Sessions Under Fire: GOP Rushes to Eat Their Own Again

by Edmund Kozak | Updated 02 Mar 2017 at 2:39 PM
Some Republicans quick to pile on as Trump attorney general targeted by media, leaks......were quick to agree Thursday with Democrats calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, following leaks and media reports that Sessions met with Moscow’s ambassador twice last year.The allegations, leaked from intelligence sources, were first reported by The Washington Post..........

Why the Heck Should it be a Firing Offense to Talk with the Russians?
By Monica Showalter
Democrats and the Beltway establishment have a vested interest in claiming any contact with the Russians is toxic and dangerous. It's wrong.........The problem of Not Being Allowed To Talk With The Russians is obviously a political gambit, but it's even more the case a bureaucratic one.........They aren't interested in national security, and they never have been.

If they were, they'd have halted the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton who was found to have committed the Mother of All Security Violations in illegally securing a private server to handle her State Department email. They didn't. We don't need to bring up leftist Jane Fonda succoring the North Vietnamese while U.S. servicemen were being tortured, or Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) colluding with the KGB in his bid to halt Ronald Reagan's re-election.

It's a grotesque spectacle given all that the Democrats have handed to the Iranian mullahs via the Iran Deal, as well as the no-conditions normalization of relations with the monstrous Castro regime. The Russians are the big problem? A problem so big a guy like Sessions dare not talk with them? The mullahs are laughing up their sleeves at that one. The Beltway Hive is even more complicit in this sorry state of affairs...............More