[Federalist] McConnell: 'This is the chamber in which the politics of intimidation and personal destruction do not win the day.'
Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States with a vote of 50-48 on Saturday.
After weeks of a brutal fight and an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault made against him, several key swing senators voted in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, including Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Jeff Flake of Arizona, and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — the only Democrat to cross party lines.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the one Republican present who did not vote to confirm Kavanaugh. She abstained from voting, saying hers would have cancelled out the affirmative vote from Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, were he present. Daines missed the vote to walk his daughter down the aisle on Saturday.
Kavanaugh will be replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the court in June. His confirmation gives the court a reliable conservative majority for the first time in decades.
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What a ridiculous time we live in. Boof!
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#5
we live in flux,McCarthy was right it turns out. we should not however underestimate our adversaries. they seem to immune to logic, law, precedent or knowledge. and they control the media
#6
Congrats Judge Kavanaugh. Sorry you had to endure the shameful criminal behavior of the Dems. There will be much work to be done. You seem to be up to the job and know much about Constitutional law as well as military law; your knowledge will be needed.
[PJ] David Garcia, the Democrat candidate for governor in Arizona, has vocally opposed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, citing the sexual assault allegations against the judge. But last month, Sal James Rivera, a donor friend — and co-host for Garcia's campaign events — was arrested for sexual assault, which allegedly took place after a Garcia campaign event.
PJ Media reached out to the Garcia campaign with multiple requests for comment (twice by email, giving four hours, and once directly on Twitter to Garcia's communications director), none of which have been returned. The candidate is on record — and has paid to promote ads — opposing sexual assault in the clearest terms and applying that moral stance to the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh.
#3
Such a common occurrence it's almost like, not even news.
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...except it would be news if local Arizona media decided to trumpet it the way they do every time a Republican is accused of grabbing somebody's butt.
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A better name would be "believe accusations against Republicans"
[WashingtonTimes] Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s colleagues are rallying behind the North Dakota Democrat following her decision to oppose Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, a pair of possible 2020 presidential contenders, and Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire blasted out separate fundraising emails Friday on behalf of Ms. Heitkamp, commending her for putting 'country before politics' by voting "no" on Judge Kavanaugh.
'Heidi is voting for her values regardless of any right-wing attacks that could further jeopardize her reelection campaign in North Dakota ‐ a state that President Trump won by double digits," Mr. Booker said in his request. "Now we need to stand up for Heidi and help her fight back to ensure her Senate seat remains blue.'" Will be interesting to see how the ND Native American electorate welcomes Sens. Harris and Booker. The Dems may be attempting to leverage the Trump Casinos -vs- Native American Casinos angle./span>
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...'Rallying' for Heidi costs nothing, especially when she's down by 10 (as of the last polls I saw) with less than 30 days to go. Typical Democratic response - all show, damned little go.
Mike
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The Kavanuagh backlash at the Dems as the "Party of Lies" may cost the Dems far more than they ever expected. Flip ND quite possibly, might even flip Montana, Indiana and West Virginia, and will solidify holds on other seats that were edging closer.
If they simply add 2 more seats with reliable conservatives, it changes the Senate a ton. 4 seats would make things incredibly easier considering the new senators are more conservative than the ones they are replacing.
With Flake replaced by a somewhat more conservative, McCain replaced by another somewhat more conservative, and the weak sisters Collins MurCOWski no longer needed for a majority vote, it makes the Senate much easier to get another conservative through.
Hello RBG, meet your replacement, Amy Coney Barrett.
Breyer is 80. If he kicks or retires, The Replacement for Breyer? Justice Willett has a nice ring to it.
And rumors abound about Justice Thomas health. If Thomas health is an issue, he should retire at the end of this session while Trump can name his replacement. The replacement for Thomas? Amul R. Thapar - the first Indian-American minority on the SC.
Could you imagine that? All those conservatives, all under 60.
[Breitbart] At a rally yesterday against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Women’s March organizer and anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour introduced Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to attendees as a politician "who works for us on the inside."
Promoting Gillibrand, Sarsour stated (video above): "I want to introduce to you another champion, another one of our people who works for us on the inside. Someone who understands that she works for the people of this country, who’s been speaking up against sexual assault and sexual violence before there was a Brett Kavanaugh. Please give it up for the senator."
The controversial Sarsour co-hosted the Washington, D.C. rally on Thursday outside the Supreme Court together with another anti-Israel radical and fellow Women’s March organizer, Tamika Mallory.
Gillibrand’s colleague in the Senate, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), also spoke at Sarsour’s anti-Kavanaugh event. "I believe Christine Blasey Ford! I am angry on behalf of women who have been told to sit down and shut up one time too many!" Warren declared. More @ link.
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It should be possible to pull blood oxygen, pulse and maybe bp out of those videos (from something we did for liveness detection in the 3D fingerprint effort we tried. - total working device didn't get certified because the FBI controller of fingerprints was a technically lacking bureaucrat who insisted that 3D fingerprints had to be calibrated to 2D slides - A 3D scan would just see the slide as flat with a image. )
#7
What was Ford supposed to tell the FBI that she didn't already tell the Senate?
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Susan Collins gave a great speech yesterday to explain why will vote to confirm Kavanaugh. One problem I had with it though, she was much to charitable in saying she does not believe Feinstein leaked the letter that Ford wrote in confidence. I find it all too easy to believe that Feinstein leaked that letter.
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#9
Thanks but I couldn't bring myself to watch these two lying bozos for 8 minutes.
#11
What was going on with those eye sockets and cheek bones? Whomever it was that did her makeup made her look like a Cardassian (alien). That was totally freaky looking.
[MadWorldNews] Earlier this week, former economics and women and gender studies professor Susan Feiner discreetly promised her students at the University of Southern Maine college credit for taking a trip to Washington, D.C., for an opportunity to protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In less than 24 hours, Feiner had organized the stealthy demonstration and loaded students up on a bus headed to the capital to support frivolous and unsubstantiated allegations that have utterly destroyed the entire Kavanaugh family. However, the day of the trip, Feiner and her gullible left-leaning students received an unwanted surprise courtesy of the university president.
According to The Blaze, USM officials discovered professor Susan Feiner’s promise to students of college credit for protesting Brett Kavanaugh hours before they arrived at their destination and immediately overruled her offer, making the students’ arduous 10-hour bus ride all for nothing.
University officials uncovered Feiner’s plan to offer her class extra credit for protesting against Kavanaugh, denouncing the professor’s partisan plot as "unacceptable" and informing students that they would not be receiving college credit for making the lengthy trip, the Press Herald reports.
"This pop-up course was hastily arranged in the past 24 hours, without the knowledge of the provost or myself. It was not appropriately reviewed nor went through proper channels," President Glenn Cummings said in a statement to the Press Herald. "As soon as the provost and I were apprised of the course, we immediately pulled the one-credit offering. We also made sure that no USM monies were being used for the trip."
"Dr. Feiner acted in a very rogue manner," Cummings added to the Press Herald. "Her behavior was inappropriate. It was unacceptable."
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Notice that they did not pull the credit because of the nature of the trip, but only because she did not follow the right procedure. If the professor had follow the proper process I'm sure it would have been approved.
#4
What the Hell is it with all these hagged out, middle aged women who seem bent on communism and civilizational destruction at every turn?
They get cushy little sinecures as college professors with little or no adult supervision, they get caught up in the echo chamber and they act without consequences.
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Until the college goes bankrupt when GEOTUS makes the college have some skin in the loan repayment game.
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#1 Profiles in something...
Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-10-06 01:56
All the more accurate when you remember that Profiles in Courage was ghostwritten for John Kennedy by Ted Sorenson. More making it look like something when there's nothing there.
Mike
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#3
Hmm. Why am I seeing the Peanuts cartoon of Lucy conning Charlie into kicking the football one more time?
#5
That set up could work both ways tho if she voted "no" and then Daines walked in and voted "yes." She'd have to caucus with the dumbs after that and 2020 would become interesting...
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She's a hack like her Dad: Murkowski was elected governor on November 5, 2002, receiving nearly 56% of the vote, the highest percentage for any Republican gubernatorial nominee in Alaska history up until that point.[9] He succeeded Democrat Tony Knowles and took office on December 2, 2002.
Upon his inauguration, he resigned his Senate seat and appointed his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, the Majority Leader-designate of the Alaska House of Representatives, in his place. His opponents derided the appointment as an act of nepotism.
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Property sale controversy
In July 2007, Lisa Murkowski stated she would sell back land she bought from Anchorage businessman Bob Penney, a day after a Washington watchdog group filed a Senate ethics complaint against her, alleging that Penney sold the property well below market value.[122] The Anchorage Daily News noted, "The transaction amounted to an illegal gift worth between $70,000 and $170,000, depending on how the property was valued, according to the complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center."[122] According to the Associated Press, Murkowski bought the land from two developers tied to the Ted Stevens probe.[123]
In 2008, Murkowski amended her Senate financial disclosures for 2004 through 2006, adding income of $60,000 per year from the sale of a property in 2003, and more than $40,000 a year from the sale of her "Alaska Pasta Company" in 2005.
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Murkowski clans are dirtbags and grifters - big gov types. I hope Palin finds a good primary opponent now and starts prepping him/her to stomp Lisa's ass flat.
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There is no real enforcement of unethical or criminal prosecution for her activities just like McCain and the Keating Five. The problem is the Senate cannot or will not police itself.
This reinforces the behavior of the bottom feeders, like the senator.
Voting present my a$$.
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#18
Repeal the 17th. Biggest mistake we as a nation ever made, right along side prohibition 18 and income tax/Fed 16. PROGRESSIVES passed those.
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