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He’ll Just Have to Remain Elf-Employed

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It ain’t Christmas, but this is a nice little gift to the nation:

On Wednesday evening, George T. Conway III — leading litigator, longtime partner at Wachtell Lipton, and husband of Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President Donald Trump — sent a letter to the White House withdrawing from consideration to lead the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Conway, also a finalist for the post of U.S. Solicitor General, emerged as the presumptive pick for assistant attorney general of the Civil Division back in March.

Conway shared news of his withdrawal with friends and colleagues earlier this week.

He’s allegedly not taking the job to spend more time with his family, which is always bullshit, and especially the case considering he is married to Kellyanne Conway (apparently because Laura Ingraham wouldn’t marry him).

At any rate, Conway is one of the miserable fucking impeachment elves who basically played a major role in sending this country down the shitter. Read the whole thing, as they say.

This is a good thing.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    I thought this post was going to be about the Evil Elf of Injustice, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III: Jim Crow’s Revenge

  2. 2.

    efgoldman

    Meh. President Bannonazi will find some other RWNJ ethically-challenged lawyer to take one job or the other, unless he decides to leave them unfilled.
    This is a case of a rat starting to board a ship, figuring out it’s going to sink, and sensibly running away.

  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    If there is an FSM out there hearing prayers, please hear my plea – have the Trump admin try and invoke executive privilege to attempt to stop Comey from testifying.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    @Corner Stone: Maybe John will reuse the title to the post for next Thursday, if Comey is allowed to testify. Executive privilege is a stretch, unless the GOP decided that it is valid, and won’t allow Comey to testify.

  5. 5.

    George Spiggott

    This Masquerade

    The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee asked U.S. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of U.S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, engaging in the same practice that President Trump has accused the Obama administration of abusing, current and former officials said.

    The chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), has since cast the practice of “unmasking” U.S. individuals and organizations in classified reports as an abuse of surveillance powers by the outgoing Obama administration.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nunes-led-house-intelligence-committee-requested-unmaskings-of-americans/2017/06/02/5c098dc0-47bc-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.cef4f0f8ae0a#comments

  7. 7.

    dm

    Wasn’t Conway the fellow who convinced the courts that one could depose a sitting President (Clinton in the Paula Jones case)? Might not be a precedent you’d want on your resume in the current White House.

  8. 8.

    efgoldman

    @George Spiggott:

    Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), has since cast the practice of “unmasking” U.S. individuals and organizations in classified reports as an abuse of surveillance powers

    How does someone with a negative IQ get elected to congress? From California, no less?
    Didn’t he make noises vaguely sounding like recusal?

  9. 9.

    mainmata

    @JPL: Don’t think he can invoke Exec. Privilege anyway since Comey will be testifying in part about conversations that the Orange Shitegibbon has already blabbed about already, the dumn f*ck so they’re no longer privileged.

  10. 10.

    efgoldman

    @dm:

    Wasn’t Conway the fellow who convinced the courts that one could depose a sitting President (Clinton in the Paula Jones case)?

    Yup. All the way up until he won it in SCOTUS.
    When his name was first floated as Solicitor General, people were wondering how he’d justify arguing both sides of the same, very public, issue.
    They’ve fallen way off the radar, but there are multiple suits winding thru the courts on the emoluments clause and other issues.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    We all know there is no such thing as Peak Wingnut. But could we possibly have reached Peak Ivanka?

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    After half a year of this conversation

    Lucky Mr. Conway: How was work today, dear?
    KAC: “)*@#$%V *)#$%** *%#$) )*!)@#*% **^)$!!!!!!”

    He may have decided it wasn’t a career-enhancing move.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    @mainmata: It only matters what the GOP leadership thinks. Comey could go out and give a news conference though, if he wanted. The leadership could say that the President invoked executive privilege and we accept it. Is it valid, hell no, but what cost do they pay?

  14. 14.

    KithKanan

    @efgoldman: The red parts of the state might as well be Alabama or Oklahoma. Being vastly outnumbered by the blue parts of the state doesn’t make them any saner.

  18. 18.

    mai naem mobile

    Jeff Sessions’ face looks a lot like Putins. He’s shorter and he’s got more hair but the face is remarkably similar. Also too, does anybody else look at Putin and think ruthless cruel thug? I’ve thought this for years,not just since Dolt won. I would not want to do any kind of deal,business or other .

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @mai naem mobile:

    Also too, does anybody else look at Putin and think ruthless cruel thug?

    Remember Sarah Palin and “Putin rears his head”? Boy howdy, those were good times.

  23. 23.

    efgoldman

    @mai naem mobile:

    does anybody else look at Putin and think ruthless cruel thug?

    I look at him and think: “Nobody lives forever, shithead, and you can’t take it with you.”

  28. 28.

    feebog

    @efgoldman:

    How does someone with a negative IQ get elected to congress? From California, no less?
    Didn’t he make noises vaguely sounding like recusal?

    He’s from Fresno. Where the onions are smarter then the residents.

  30. 30.

    Barbara

    @dm: Let’s just say he will have a hard time being the guy who asks a court to revisit the issue.

  31. 31.

    Breezeblock

    @trollhattan: Just what I was thinking. I mean, he’s not Medicare-ready, yet, right?? Well, there’s the whole RWNJ gravy train, but, maybe he was also protecting his law license.

  32. 32.

    seaboogie

    @Corner Stone: I need more perspective, why are the lawyers I see commenting here and on Twitter wanting Trump to invoke executive privilege – what are the ramifications of that?

  34. 34.

    John Cole

    @Adam L Silverman:

    With his name and Yale Law School degree, Conway looked on paper like a scion of old wealth; he was in fact the middle-class son of an electrical engineer from suburban Boston. Short, dark, slightly overweight, and painfully shy, he was also, at the age of thirty-three, unmarried and without a regular girlfriend at the time. He aspired to date tall blondes, preferably of the conservative persuasion. Laura Ingraham, the woman he was pursuing in 1997, epitomized that desire. The willowy Ingraham had become a budding celebrity early in 1995 when the New York Times Magazine profiled young Washington conservatives, featuring her on the cover in a fetching leopard print miniskirt. For Conway and other right-wing males of his generation, she was an intellectual pinup.

  35. 35.

    seaboogie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I find it interesting when I have to drive I-5 or the 505 in NorCal that that is where I see the RW DIY billboards for 2A and such. So few people there, and so they need guns? Doesn’t compute for me.

  37. 37.

    efgoldman

    @seaboogie:

    why are the lawyers I see commenting here and on Twitter wanting Trump to invoke executive privilege

    I don’t think they *want* him to, I think that historically, it’s the first thing WH lawyers try, so they *expect* him to.

  39. 39.

    randy khan

    I’ll just say that someone who’s a partner at a major New York law firm claiming he’s giving up an opportunity for a government job to spend more time with his family is hilarious. Heck, being head of the Civil Division of the DoJ probably would give him *more* time with his family than his current job.

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