I am not a stupid person and I resent this administration’s persistent efforts to treat me as if I am.

 

Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions testified before congress yesterday.  If I am to take the attorney general at his word then I must conclude that the nation’s top law enforcement officer has no short term or long term memory, has no formal knowledge or curiosity about the efforts of the Russian government to meddle in our elections, does not understand the legal components of executive privilege and is confused about the the reasons behind the firing of the Director of the FBI.

If I am to take the attorney general at his word then clearly he is unfit to serve in such a taxing and important position.

In answering the committee’s questions Sessions said “I don’t recall” or “I don’t remember” at least once in every minute he testified.  A stunning lack of memory from a person in such an important position dealing with such important matters.

He admitted that he had never received a briefing on the investigation into the Russian hacking and had expressed no curiosity about the matter.

He refused to answer any questions about conversations that he may or may not have had with he president.  When pressed as to whether the president had invoked “executive privilege” Session admitted he had not but offered that he was refusing to answer on the basis that the president “might” decide to invoke the privilege in the future.

Sessions stated alternately that he recommended that Comey had been fired because 1.) his handling of the Clinton email investigation or 2.) because Comey’s failed leadership had left the FBI in turmoil.  Sessions seemingly failed to understand the inconsistency in deciding to fire Comey for failures in performance after having offered nothing but praise for Comey publically.  He also admitted that though Comey was fired for his failures in performance, as Comey’s supervisor he never had a meeting with Comey to discuss the areas where he felt Comey needed to improve.  Sessions refused to comment on the president’s public statement that he fired Comey because of his handling of the Russian investigation.

Sessions’ stunningly evasive testimony is only the latest public affirmation that this administration believes we the people have the intellectual capacity of a house plant.  The disgusting sycophancy displayed at the president’s cabinet meeting was orchestrated entirely for our small minded consumption.  The administration’s cavalier and dismissive attitude toward the Russian hacking secure in the belief that the masses will not notice.

We have an administration that believes reality is whatever they say it is.  They spoon feed us self-serving nonsense with the firm belief that we will accept whatever they say as fact.

I am not a stupid person.  I reject the houseplant mentality.

Do you?