Jeff Sessions: Obama Should Take Responsibility For GSA, Secret Service And Solyndra Scandals

WASHINGTON — A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama tells reporters the president should take responsibility for the Secret Service, GSA and energy company Solyndra scandals and insist on a government culture in which taxpayer dollars are not wasted. He said, "I don't sense that this president has shown that kind of managerial leadership."

Sessions is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is expected to receive a briefing Friday from the Secret Service and hold a hearing next week. The service has ousted three of 11 agents and officers alleged to have cavorted with prostitutes in Colombia in advance of Obama's visit there.

The president has pushed for a thorough investigation into the incident.

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Comments

[Tim Adams Orlando]

05:17 PM on 04/21/2012

Jeff Sessions Knows Full Well That the President was NO Able to Affect Either of the Situations that he is Describing; Nor Could he or any other President Prevent Every action of more than One Hundred Thousand Persons, Who are Needed to Operate our Government!

[ConsciousOfEverythin]

05:02 AM on 04/21/2012

On what planet is appropriate for the male President of a country to take responsibility for a man, who consciously decided to poke his johnson in a prostitute?

[southingtonian]

04:36 AM on 04/21/2012

The new tilt the GOP is trying to take against President Obama is that he does not behave like a CEO. NOR SHOULD HE. Despite their wet dreams, the U.S. of A. is a country, not a Corporation. The three branches of government are by design the servants of the citizenry, not their superiors nor their overseers.

[lotsacynic]

06:17 PM on 04/21/2012

Thank you.

[stkyrice]

11:07 PM on 04/20/2012

According to my education of the congress, it is the congress that has the oversight of these departments. Where we're the repub's who currently have the oversight power's?

[lotsacynic]

06:18 PM on 04/21/2012

Yep. Where were they during th financial crisis??

[Watching rock grow]

09:51 PM on 04/20/2012

Jeffy, if and when Bushy 43 ever steps up and takes responsibility for his decisions. Then maybe I might want what you are demanding of our President right now. Otherwise, I am happy with his underlings’ failures to remain with them.

“Whereas Bush couldn't name a single mistake -- not, say, letting Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora, or refusing to allow weapons inspectors to ascertain that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, or backing economic policies that took the greatest budget surplus in American history and turned it into the biggest deficit in history…” Paragraph 7 from http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-08/opinion/begala.obama.takes.responsibility_1_saddam-hussein-george-w-bush-weapons?_s=PM:OPINION

[Samantha4]

08:23 PM on 04/20/2012

What Solyndra scandal? Republican Congressman Darrell Issa stated on March 30th that there was no wrongdoing and there was no criminal activity. Besides, there were many other companies involved in that loan who did just fine. No one talks about that. They only talk about Solyndra, the one that failed. Most Republicans like to cherry-pick their facts.

[chopperbuggy]

08:48 PM on 04/20/2012

Thats because Republicans don't believe in facts...

[chopperbuggy]

08:53 PM on 04/20/2012

Republicans seem to forget about the Halliburton scandal!!!! This company owned by Chaney was filling for bankruptcy right before he became VP. Low and behold he became VP and not only did it not file but it went overseas with all the war things going on and made BILLIONS of DOLLARS, and is still overseas now still making BILLIONS of DOLLARS on the tax payer money.

[BUTCHER99]

07:55 PM on 04/20/2012

I am sure he will as soon as Bush takes responsibility for starting two needless unfunded wars and ruining the US economy.

[Will Geisler]

07:50 PM on 04/20/2012

Yes. Yes Obama should take the blame for the SS actions. Also, he shot the sheriff. Probably not the deputy, but let's go ahead and assume him too, just to be on the safe side.

[ConsciousOfEverythin]

04:58 AM on 04/21/2012

LMBO. Too funny.

[lotsacynic]

06:29 PM on 04/21/2012

don't forget the kidnapping of the Lindberg baby......

[Will Geisler]

08:48 PM on 04/21/2012

Right?! This is gettin a little outta control I think... Hmmm, lets see, what else can we blame Obama for?

[chopperbuggy]

07:13 PM on 04/20/2012

Damn Republicans did you forgot about MMS under Bush's watch?????? Let me refresh your memory, Mineral Management Service. Now do you remember????? Under Bush's watch this gov organization bought and paid for hookers, booze, cocaine, hotels, parties, vacations, for top CEO, CFO, COO, of all the oil, drilling, companies. But once again Republicans forget because they all have short memories.

[southingtonian]

04:38 AM on 04/21/2012

not short memories so much as CONVENIENT.

[Yvette67]

01:18 PM on 04/20/2012

There is a missing roadsign on Interstate I 95 - should the president take responsibility for that also? This is getting ridiculous.

[AmericanMade2]

01:00 PM on 04/20/2012

Sen. Jeff Sessions is bold and brave, and capable of asking educated questions. Too bad Mr. Obama isn't able to handle sensible and reasonable questioning.
And for the unemployed, wonder how they are going to like the new plan Obama has for " Work while you're drawing unemployment" new program... What, did they think they would get something for nothing?? Maybe American citizens want to Google Food Deserts (not desserts) and what that means to our livelyhood.

[centauro962]

03:58 PM on 04/20/2012

AmericanMade2, among the moronic community, you are perfectly right.

[Cappy Cap]

05:18 PM on 04/20/2012

" There but by the Grace of God could go I " and you too for that matter ! Think about that one. Put yourself in someone else' s shoes and walk around in them for awhile ! BTW it is President Obama. Get used to it~for FOUR MORE YEARS !

[Seymourhiney]

12:50 PM on 04/20/2012

Sessions is better know as "the Bigot from the South". Hhe is a hypocrite, liar and bigot that makes him a leader in the GOP.

[mm3264]

11:41 AM on 04/20/2012

righteousindignation on Apr 20, 2012 at 10:46:48
“friends could profit billions - on American mothers burying their babies?! Does that include George Soros - Obama's political contributor - since Soros bought TWO MILLION shares of Halliburton in 2006?”
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Of course! Doesn't matter who profited, it was a crime. Premeditated murder by Bush. Muder for profit. Murder Inc. would have been jealous.

[boyoboy]

11:06 AM on 04/20/2012

Jeff Sessions is still smarting that was denied a seat on the SCOTUS because he's a racist.  This throwback to the Reconstruction Era isn't relevant except in some Southeast states.

[mm3264]

10:17 AM on 04/20/2012

Everettguy on Apr 19, 2012 at 23:25:07
“Two problems here: First, you're complaining about Reagan selling guns to "terrorists." At the time, they weren't terrorists; we were arming them to fight the Russians. Remember now? Also, at least he SOLD them, as opposed to Obama GIVING them to Mexicans (Fast and Furious ring a bell?). Second, he say that Bush should be "hung" on Capitol Hill. Are you calling for his assassination? Just a simple yes or now will suffice.”
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Your ignorance and denial of the Reagan administration is typical of your Republican ilk. Iran was and is considered a terrorist state. There was a worlwide embargo about selling weapons to them, we were one of the first to call for it. Reagan secretly, without congress approval, sold weapons to the terrorists in Iran. These same terrorists armed Hezbollah that killed over 250 Marines in Beirut, then Reagan ran away
Reagan also led the largest cocaine smuggling operation into our country, even supplying planes to insure safe passage of the drugs.
Bush should be hung for killing over 4,500 American children in Iraq so that his friends could profit billions on American mothers burying their babies. Assination? no! He should be tried, convicted and hung for premeditated murder.

[ArkayMI]

11:46 AM on 04/20/2012

War profiteers are terrorists (just that they don't strap on a bomb) regardless of which party they support. If Soros did indeed profit from war, he is one.

[chopperbuggy]

08:38 PM on 04/20/2012

What's your point????? The Bush family has ties to the royal family in Saudi Arabia. That means the Bin Liden family, not to mention Bush Sr. trained Bin Liden when he was head of the CIA Bush Jr GOT MONEY FROM THE SAUDI FAMILY FOR HIS TEXAS BASEBALL TEAM !!!!!!! You righties are so gullible and believe everything you hear on fox, limbaugh, haannitty, all the right wing hate machines!!!!

[mnash]

10:54 AM on 04/20/2012

agreed!!! Does Sessions think Bush is ever going to take responsibility for his acations? Don't think so!!!