Jeff Sessions lost the runoff election Tuesday in Alabama to be the Republican Party's candidate for the United States Senate seat presently held by Democrat Doug Jones. Tommy Tuberville, of all people, defeated him. Losing to Saban (Nick, not Lou) would have been more readily understood.
Mr. Sessions formerly represented the people of Alabama as a United States Senator. It was while he served in the Senate in February 2016 that he rather (in)famously became the first sitting Senator to endorse then-candidate Trump for President. It was that endorsement that led to Sessions being named Trump's first Attorney General of the United States, a post from which he resigned eighteen months later (at Trump's urging), having alienated Trump by recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, which recusal led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as Independent Counsel. In other words, Trump did not blame himself or his campaign for the investigation. He blamed Sessions. He now has the revenge he so vigorously and transparently craved.
Waking up yesterday morning to see Mr. Sessions on the wrong end of Tuesday's election results made me - and probably me alone - think of Oliver Stone's Wall Street and the great Martin Sheen. Sheen, of course, played Carl Fox, the blue-collar, hard-working father of Wall Street wannabe Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) who is seduced by, and ultimately destroyed by, Gordon Gekko. It is during Gekko's seduction of the younger Fox that Bud receives excellent advice from his father, which he ignores of course, a decision that has dire consequences:
I wonder if Jeff Sessions has Netflix or Amazon Prime. He now has a lot of time on his hands. I know not whether he is a movie fan but perhaps Mr. Stone's opus will appeal to him. Or perhaps it will seem all-too-close to home.
A lesson ignored is a lesson learned.
-AK
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