If you need a hobby, try baking cookies in a hollow tree.

Or was that his twin brother?

But I did hear that some dept stores are looking for elves to work as Santa's helpers this year!

He is constantly under fire from all sides in his current position. He is a king in Alabama.

The timing works well.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/politics/william-barr-attorney-general-bush-trump/index.html

And after 2020, even if he beats Doug Jones, he risks being a member of a Republican minority.

Republicans don't tend to be modest when it comes to their ego, so he may decide to have AGUSA as the last entry for him in the history books.

Being the party of no is where their wheelhouse is. It's been a little bit but they gained their power from working very well as the party of no. It's a part of what brought about the Tea Party(along with Fox News and deep pockets) and Republican electoral success. They paint themselves as victims and Sessions is better than most at it.

"even if he beats Doug Jones"

It wouldn't be a race. Sessions would win the seat with little effort. Jones pulled less votes than Sessions does running unopposed. A lot of people seem to be unaware of his popularity in the state.

Only Roy Moore's perversity got Jones his seat. Claire McCaskill told me flat out that if it hadn't been for "legitimate rape," she would have had no chance at all to retain her seat in 2012. She knew they wouldn't make THAT mistake again, and that her chances of re-election were dim--she knew this in January 2013 (I was at her swearing in party in Washington that day).

He walked away from a safe seat where he was respected (at least by the people he cares about) and that he could have kept for as long as he wanted.

Only to be mocked and humiliated by the president of the United States, turned into a laughing stock forever ingrained in American culture (Kate McKinnon), and then unceremoniously and dismissively booted out by the man to whose wagon he hitched everything.

And now he needs a job. If he wants his old job back, he has to bust his butt and beg and grovel for it and then end up back in his old gig, but as a junior senator with no seniority (kind of like selling your house for next to nothing, realizing you want it back and then having to buy it back from the guy you sold it to for three times what he paid you for it). And can you imagine trying to run for a Senate seat as a Republican after the Republican president consistently smeared you as an incompetent, disloyal wimp? He'd have to run against Doug Jones AND Donald Trump.

Sure - he can probably get some big law firm to pay him well as a senior counsel. But going from being a senator and attorney general to pushing paper and setting up meetings for clients is a pretty big fall.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy ...

having held TWO posts in Trump's cabinet."

I laughed in agreement, then...not. We now know our last few Republican senate caucuses have been actively working to replace representative government of, by and for the people with authoritarian government served by the people, and we can expect the 116th to also. Depends on how you define low, but I'd say treason under any label would fit.

to DOJ...if they don't it's a tacit admission that it's okay for the sitting Attorney General to lie to Congress and the American people. If Sessions were to run for elected office again and won it would be a national disgrace.

One more or less won't raise eyebrows any more. Like I said when Jones won his seat he had better start doing some things in the Senate that are conspicuous and benefit the people of Alabama, or else he'll just be one of those several caretaker Senators that earn themselves a footnote in history and little else.

some time to come.