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| 2018-09-30 |
| h/t Instapundit I'm trying to be adult in my response to yet another delay in Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. I can understand why some Senate Republicans wanted a further investigation, and why President Trump acceded to their wishes. They have a one-vote - one single vote - margin in the Senate, and at least three RINO senators who may, for their own reasons, prefer not to support Judge Kavanaugh. If they're lucky, they may get one or two Democratic senators to support him . . . but that still means that his confirmation is not certain. It may be that the Vice-President will have to cast a tie-breaking ballot to decide the issue. That would be anything but ideal, and would open to question any ruling of the Supreme Court in which Mr. Kavanaugh's vote was decisive. The Administration is bending over backwards to avoid going to such extremes, and get him confirmed by even one vote rather than risk such consequences. IMO, any ruling of the Supreme Court in which Mr. Kavanaugh's vote was decisive will be questioned regardless Nevertheless, I'm sickened by the arrogance, dishonesty and partisanship displayed by so many Senators in recent days. Democrats, in particular, have abandoned any semblance of decency. Acting B. Hard ...We live - or are supposed to live - according to the rule of law in these United States. The Kavanaugh hearings have shown that for too many of us, the rule of law is no longer relevant. It's become the rule of feelings, the rule of sympathy, the rule of partisan bias. Facts no longer matter. Proof no longer matters. It's all about how we perceive things. In a conflict between these who go by feelz and these who been taught self-control, the feelz people initially win - however, eventually, daddy spanks. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 The pubs need to tell the Dems that they have been indulged enough and to get on with the vote or FOAD and get on with the vote. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-09-30 20:43 |
| #16 The FBI will investigate as directed. Let's hope Deepstaters are not charged with The task. The left will then move the bar up. They will never be satisfied. I've seen this before. Their strategy is to ask for the impossible and then criticize for not meeting their impossible demands. Might have been best to just f#$k you very much to them although the optics would be terrible and their would likely be political fallout. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-30 18:21 |
| #15 The FBI investigation might really be about goading Kavanaugh or members of his family into making false statements to the FBI, assuming the FBI won't be acting in good faith. The statements might actually be irrelevant as to the accusations; they might even be true but unprovable. What matters is that they might be used to prosecute or to credibly threaten prosecution. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-30 16:26 |
| #14 "Are you, or have you ever been, a Card-Carrying Member of ... the Republican Party ?!?" |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-09-30 15:42 |
| #13 That would be anything but ideal, and would open to question any ruling of the Supreme Court in which Mr. Kavanaugh's vote was decisive. Anybody who understands what the Democrats are doing would have no question. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-09-30 14:40 |
| #12 Then there is this: HOLD EVERYTHING! I can't IMAGINE how this slipped my mind for 38 years, but I JUST REMEMBERED that Diane Feinstein groped me at a political fundraiser in a San Francisco hotel in 1980. I can't remember which hotel, or exactly when it was. For that matter I don't remember why I would have been attending a political fundraiser for Diane Feinstein or how I got there. But I'm SURE it was her, although I'll admit I was pretty drunk at the time and most of the evening is pretty sketchy in my memory. Sorry I waited until she decided to make a three-ring circus out of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to bring this up, but both my counselor and my attorney felt this was the right time. I tried to speak with Senator Feinstein personally but every time I called, the guy who answered her cellphone spoke Chinese and I guess he couldn't understand me. My attorney will be demanding a full Senate and FBI investigation of Senator Feinstein before my new tell-all memoir is published in October. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-30 13:53 |
| #11 I have a hopeful sense of the Trump battle plan. The FBI will find nothing and shut down the sex inquiry. They will be hated by the Left, Trump gets his judge placed and the Left believes in the FBI no longer. The Mueller project dies a timely death and agents of the Left fall under inspection. The FBI lightly engages and comes up with a report that simply rehashes the rumor content and is too weak to substantiate anything. They have acted and the public is informed. Another 'no reason' to not vote for the guy. Vilified by both right and left, the Mueller project dies. In either scenario and many more the FBI is called to action by the President for 'ancient' sex crimes and past behavior by public figures. The window of precedence and pool of candidates are opened wide. DOJ is stunned into action at the President's behest by it's own agency. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-09-30 13:45 |
| #10 Raj, I know they'll never been satisfied, but it would have been nice on Thursday to have the GOP announce the FBI investigated all the info she has provided and barring new information provided in this hearing... |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-30 13:18 |
| #9 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-30 12:58 |
| #8 When the senate committee reconvenes in public to review the FBI investigation results a senate republican should ask the FBI a series of questions: was it Bill Clinton who really assulted Dr Ford?, was it Ted Kennedy? Was it Brock Adams...... was it dick Durban? Was it Jeff flake? |
| Posted by: Airandee 2018-09-30 12:32 |
| #7 ...although the investigation should have begun while they were haggling over her showing up or not The Dems would have been bitching & moaning if they did that; they'd be throwing fits no matter what they did. I hope Flake burns in hell. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-09-30 12:25 |
| #6 As I said: eventually, daddy will spank. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-30 12:16 |
| #5 I'm talking about both Ford and Feinstein. And, once you get down to the nitty-gritty details, Flake and Collins and Moo Cow Ski. I don't know about Grassley And yeah, they have feelings, but what's on the outside doesn't match what's on the inside. Under the tears, they're laughing at us. And by negotiating with them as if they might believe what they're saying only encourages them. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-30 12:03 |
| #4 GOP is responding the way they are because the female population of the US is watching them and they don't want to play into the Dems hands. They are actually being fairly clever so far although the investigation should have begun while they were haggling over her showing up or not so that evidence could have been presented at the hearing on Thursday. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-30 11:36 |
| #3 p.s. I't common belief that sociopaths don't feel. They feel - they just have zilch empathy. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-30 11:28 |
| #2 I'm talking about people like Ford, not people like Feinstein, Big Foot. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-30 11:25 |
| #1 Grom, you and the original author both accept too much of the enemy's lies if you assume they feel any way at all. They're sociopaths pretending to have various feelings for purposes of emotional manipulation. They don't really believe what they're saying, why do we pretend that they do even as we go about trying to prove them wrong? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-30 11:11 |