Posted on 09/20/2018 1:09:30 PM PDT by entropy12
If they don’t grow one the functional process of constitutional government will have completely broken down.
The Dems can stymie absolutely ANYONE by having some anonymous nutball write a letter.
13th hour! Mac can’t tell time, because this crap came out AFTER the hearings were finished.
“1) The GOP has to get Kananaugh to the finish line without further delays and perversion of the approval process. Permitting Democrats to derail the nomination of a highly qualified and honorable candidate will set a terrible precedent. The GOP often caves, but caving on this matter would be disastrous for them and the country.”
That horse left the barn a long time ago. The dems have been doing this smear sh!t since Bork. None of this crap should have been surprising to grassley or mcconnell. The fact that they have let this circus go on tells you everything you need to know about those 2 #scum.
She is trying to make a mountain out of molehills.
Some female and male teenagers are sitting around a house in Bethesda. Nothing unusual about that.
Two teenage males are listening to music upstairs. Nothing unusual about that.
Female teenager needs to use the bathroom. House is small so there’s only one and its upstairs. Just is.
Male teenagers want companionship of female teenager. Nothing unusual about that.
Male teenagers invite her to listen to music. Nothing unusual about that.
One male teenager sits on the bed in a small bedroom (8x10) maybe a total of eight feet from the bathroom door and invites her to sit on the bed too. Other male teenager moves close to her to get her to feel uncomfortable and want to sit on the bed. He hangs around so she doesn’t get worried about being with only one male teenager.
Female teenager finally sits on the bed.
After a short time, male teenager on the bed put his arm around her to get used to getting handled by him.
After a short time his hand gets closer to his goals.
Female teenager figures out his goals and wiggles and screams.
Male teenager on bed panics. He puts his hand on her mouth. Other male teenager wants to get her out of room so the situation doesn’t get further out of hand, helping her escape from bedroom. She runs about ten feet into the bathroom and locks the door.
Male teenagers upstairs go downstairs so other teenagers don’t investigate.
Any questions are answered that the sports fan teenager struck out.
Teenagers downstairs, thinking that to be the case and common, forget all about it.
What the Dems are doing to Kavanugh is, in some respects, worse than what they did to Bork and Thomas combined. They are throwing EVERYTHING they can at him. No accusation is out of bounds no matter how unfounded or vile it is. They have taken things to a whole new low and it will stain the selection process for decades to come.
Its a full on assault against conservatives and a complete disdain for common decency. Its political warfare now.
“Following Bork’s nomination, Sen. Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of him, declaring:
‘Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy ... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.’
“Bork responded, ‘There was not a line in that speech that was accurate.’”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork
“Its political warfare now.”
The way the left are pushing it, it’s going to quickly get out of control. Devolving into real warfare. None of this is good. Made worse by the fact that we have no warriors on our side save Trump.
Good posts.
Ted Kennedy should be exhumed from Arlington and dumped in some Mexican desert where he belongs
It was actually just Senator Feinstein (and Congresswoman Eshoo) that waited.
The accuser notified the Feinstein, her California Senator on the Judiciary Committee, and the Washington Post, the capital’s newspaper, months in advance.
I am so very very angry at the horrific politics of personal destruction that have been unleashed by Democrats.
They need to be publicly humiliated for this.
THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT LAUGHING IT OUT OF CONGRESS- AND TAKING IT SERIOUSLY, AND DELAYING THE VOTE.
This is a link to the text of the accuser’s letter with parts redacted:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/16/politics/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-letter-feinstein/index.html
“a bathroom up a short stair well from the living room”
That suggests a split-level house to me.
“Kavanaugh was on top of me while laughing with REDACTED, who periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh.”
I can’t make any sense of that.
I said that too. Are you kidding me with that?????
According those 2 “steely” leaders, they don’t want to include wall funding until AFTER the mid-terms...then may be...if they feel courageous!
You don’t vote by Tuesday, I WON’T vote in Nov.Why bother if the party in power acts like a bunch of pussies.
Very true and plausible. However how many years have passed while Republicans have been scared to death of what media might say?
Once the budget is passed, what leverage does Trump have?
McConnell is too cute by half.
He and Ryan have shown their true colors since Trump was elected.
They don’t defend him and do the minimalist stuff they have to, to get by.
Do you realize that McConnell held off that SCOTUS judicial nomination thinking Hillary was going to win?
I did not post this thread for sake of Axelrod. It is only because the video at link has only McConnell’s speech, not Axelrod.
I spent nearly 4 decades in Chicago, and know what Axelrod is all about.
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