Posted on 09/26/2018 5:14:18 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Because Hollywood is bankrupt of ideas. – The “new” version of “Murphy Brown” apparently premiered last night, and, at least according to the reviews, nothing has changed except for the fact that all but one or two of the cast qualifies for Medicare. The show itself is still the smug, preachy vehicle for leftist writers and leftist actors to pawn their leftist views off on any poor soul who happens to stumble across CBS in their search for reruns of “Flip or Flop”.
Dang it, and I just remembered that the “new” version of “Magnum, PI” premiered on Monday, and I missed it. Hey, don’t judge me – mediocre remakes of some old ideas are better than others.
Speaking of bad remakes of old ideas, the new version of “The Cosby Show” hasn’t worked out too well for “America’s Dad”, who got sentenced to 3 to 10 years on Tuesday for being a lifelong sexual predator. While that probably will amount to a life sentence for the 81 year-old Bill Cosby, it doesn’t really seem like enough, does it?
And for any leftist pinheads who are about to scream “but…but…but…BRETT KAVANAUGH!!!!!!!!” at your computer screens, this is actually an instructive moment in time, or it would be if any of you were capable of reasoning in a rational manner. See, the gigantic difference here is that the accuser of Mr. Cosby in this case brought not only allegations that a crime had been committed upon her, but also brought a ton of actual supporting EVIDENCE of said crime.
It remains questionable whether what Christine Ford alleges even amounts to a “crime” in a legal sense, although it certainly would be bad behavior by a teenage boy 36 years ago. While the second accuser does allege the commission of an actual crime, she obviously has no real clue whether the person who committed it was in fact Judge Kavanaugh.
Neither accuser of Judge Kavanaugh has to this point not brought a single lick of evidence to support their allegations. Not even life-long friends of either woman are willing to back them in any real way. Even at this late time, one day before the scheduled hearing, it remains doubtful that either accuser even has enough confidence in their story to be willing to show up and testify under oath. The second accuser has in fact made it very clear she will not be coming forward; meanwhile, Christine Ford’s crack team of high-dollar Democrat activist lawyers spent the day on Tuesday still making ridiculous demands on terms for her testimony, demands that they know Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not meet.
The Cosby situation is not remotely comparable to the clown show going on with Judge Kavanaugh, so all you need to just stop making yourselves look stupid.
The vote has been scheduled, at least for now. – Chairman Grassley did finally take the action of scheduling a vote of his committee for Friday, giving the 72-hour advance notice required by Senate rules. Democrats naturally wailed and tossed tantrums and did interviews on CNN and MSNBC all afternoon, because hey, they’re Democrats and that’s what they do.
But the vote has been scheduled for September 28, and Majority Leader McConnell took the additional step of notifying every senator to plan to remain in Washington, DC this weekend. That’s because Sunday is September 30, and McConnell no doubt plans to hold the vote of the full senate on the Kavanaugh nomination that day, after giving the 48 hour notice following the committee vote that is also required by Senate rules.
Oh, these Republicans – they’re such rules followers.
And that’s really the deal here at the end of the day: If the Republicans just hold together and follow the rules, they will get Judge Kavanaugh confirmed at the very last possible moment for him to take his seat on the Supreme Court when its new session begins next Monday, October 1. Regardless of all the wailing, moaning, temper tantrums, false witnesses, radical leftist demonstrations, Kamala Harris lies, Cory Booker “I am Spartacus!” moments, and a never-ending parade of d-list celebrities and other mental patients being paid by George Soros and the DNC to disrupt the process, the Democrats remain powerless to stop this nomination when all is said and done.
Their only remaining hope is to do so much bullying and yelling and screaming and planting of so many fake news stories in their media outlet partners that they are able to convince any two Republican squish senators to vote against the nomination. Their main targets have been exactly who you’d expect: Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and of course Jeff Flake. For Collins and Murkowski, the question is all about their support for abortion and for Flake its all about burnishing his credentials for his post-senate gig as a paid contributor to CNN or MSNBC, where he has become the favorite fake Republican ever since John McCain took ill a year ago.
Collins so far has remained pretty firm in the face of all the Democrat abortion lobby fury that’s come her way. Murkowski seems to be going wobbly, and keeps talking nonsense about how an “FBI investigation” could just solve all of this, even though the 6 previous FBI background checks Kavanaugh has been subjected to never turned up anything worse than parking tickets in his life.
Flake is Flake: a preening, disloyal, self-promoting jerk whose time in the Senate blessedly ends on December 31 in any event. He for some absurd reason sits on the Judiciary Committee (how did McConnell allow that to happen?) and thus could tip the vote to the Democrats there if he wants to. The nomination would still go to a vote of the full Senate in any event, but with a “do not confirm” recommendation that could give other fence-sitting Republicans an excuse to vote with the Democrats.
It’s a momentous week: As despicably as the Democrats and the media have behaved to this point, you should only expect it to become more despicable, hysterical and shrill as Sunday approaches.
This is the America the Democrat Party has given us, the America the Democrats want, the America their lord and savior Saul Alinsky envisioned. Never forget that immutable fact.
That is all.
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McConnell and Grassley are doing the only thing they can at this point. I hope it pans out, but it might not.This is just another routine example of the crying need to sue "the MSM” - read, the Associated Press and its members, joint and several liability - into oblivion. Judge Kavanaugh must sue. If his confirmation fails, it would appear that he has no option at all but to do so, but either way it is necessary.
Many good FReepers think that Roy Moore is a flake, and I understand that. Under current law, what he legally did in the past is a crime. I get it. But that aside, Judge Moore was subjected to exactly the same sort of “testimony” on the basis of “recovered memory” (not truly “recovered,” but synthesized by brainwashing techniques in psychoanalysis). Such a memory is indistinguishable from reality to the patient herself or to anyone listening to the patient. Great testimony, right? Not so fast. Such a “memory” can be of an “event” which never, in the real world, happened at all.
I agree with the Scot Adams assertion that “nobody is really the same person for 20 years.” I would illustrate that point by asking, “If twenty years ago you saw your wife as she is now, would you have given her a second glance?” That does not reflect on your love for your wife, then or now, but on the fact that you are actually not now the same guy. And neither is she the same gal.
From that perspective alone it is absurd to drag up accusations from three and a half decades ago - always provided, of course, that they do not reflect the reputation of the person in question for the past 20 years. Throw in the fact that a third of the population of 35 years ago will have died in that time, and others will have completely lost their memory, and “We sit too long on trifles” is the only sensible response to consideration of a novel charge pertaining to a 35-years-ago putative event.
And journalism as we know it must be sued into oblivion for promoting it. When I say, “oblivion,” I mean that the damages must be so severe that the institutions responsible will have their attitudes permanently adjusted. The restitution must include conducting a propaganda campaign in favor of the plaintiff until polling data shows conclusively that the plaintiff’s just reputation has been restored.
That just might get their attention!
Well said.
Didn’t watch Murphy Brown - shocking, huh. Guessing she’s the real reason they dropped Roseanne.
Her lawyers still haven’t turned over the therapy session notes.
Could picking Rachel Mitchell as prosecutor lock in Flake’s vote? Both from AZ. It’s being said they now have the votes.
OK, happy the vote is scheduled. Thank God. What kind of vacuous human being is Murkowski to get her panties in a knot over an allegation from 36 years ago where the accuser can’t even get the time and place straight? Even so, he was a teenager for the love of God. What disqualifies one for the Senate? Because if we are to judge the Senate on what they did in the 1960s we would likely have to toss out the whole lot.
So if the Democrats are whipping the vote against why can’t our side whip Collins and Murkowski into action. Need another bridge to nowhere in Alaska? Fine, here’s the money. Now vote for Kavanaugh. Or would you rather never see yourself on a committee for the rest of your life?
Had to stop watching designated survivor when the writers decided it was all a frame up against poor little Muslims.
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