Why is Wyden calling him General Sessions?

[malaise]

Go Ron - take off the gloves!

[elleng]

1. Tradition: Attorney GENERAL

[malaise]

3. Thanks

Go Ron!

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

5. True, a tradition . . .

. . . but a moronic one, since the word "general" here is being used as an adjective, not a title.

But even the Supreme Court does this.

[July]

13. Seems ungrammatical, as you suggest.

If the plural is "attorneys general," it's clear that "general" is meant as an adjective. Somebody decided that calling them generals sounded better, I suppose.

To those who've posted that we shouldn't be focusing on the bigger matters at hand, well, some of us enjoy discussing language, and we're also able to walk and chew gum at the same time, i.e., focus on both the large and the small matters.

[beachbum bob]

2. short for Attorney General

gotta quite obsessing over the piddly stuff

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Weird, but true.

General is the correct form of address.

[Doreen]

6. Oh, Sessions is upset by Wyden's questions.

Sessions is saying the same answer for all of the different questions. The words are just changed around a little. In other words he is not saying much.

[gopiscrap]

9. yeah I saw that it looked like he was about to cry!

[Doreen]

10. Was it my imagination or was he kind of bouncing a little in his seat?

[gopiscrap]

11. yeah he was it must be the butt plug that was put there so he would shit his pants

during a tough question, was acting up

[Doreen]

12. Yeah, that's right, he needs one to keep all of the shit from falling out at once.

[jmg257]

7. Yeah - that went well.

[malaise]

8. Best so far

Wyden knows what went down

[Miles Archer]

14. Here's the protocol