Y'all might think I'm nuts, but I'd love to get some input from all the good folks here on FreeRepublic ... including the ones -- no, ESPECIALLY the ones -- I've managed to piss off with all my venting on this subject over the last week or so.
Cheers!
I think this line of thinking has merit. Kudos!
It’s alright, I think everyone has been doing some venting here lately.
All I can say is that I absolutely f***ing despise the US senate, everyone in it and the entire US media.
I cannot believe that this poor man had to go on national TV and admit that he was a virgin.
What the actual f*** is going on in this country?
If you are right, it still doesn’t hurt for us to complain, as it helps Kavanaugh on the political side and shows the GOP to be sticking to protocol despite complaints from the base.
They should just have her arrested and thrown in a tiny cell. There she can give statements and swear to them. If no one stops up to corroborate her story then she is fined and jailed for perjury and obstructing the vote of a SC justice.
McConnell’s speech on the floor yesterday concurs. He made sure to give Grassley props for doing things the proper way. What does anyone expect him or McConnel to do? Just try to ram it through like the dems would? That would end up with 47 YAY votes which means Kavanaugh would NOT get confirmed. Should we be mad at Grassley and McConnel because Collins and Murkowski are squishy girls or because Flake is a vindictive neverTrumper?
I called my Louisiana Senators Bill Cassidy: (202)224-5824, and John Kennedy: (202) 224-4623, and told then both to vote yes on Kavanaugh.
Here are the remaining idiots. that make up the 10:
Maine Senator Susan Collins: (202) 224-2523
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: (202)224-5824
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy: (202) 224-4623
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker: (202) 224-3344
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake: (202) 224-4521
Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi: (202) 224-3424
Oklahoma Senator James Lankford: (202) 224-5754
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran: (202) 224-6521
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski: (202) 224-6665
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse: (202) 224-4224
Well reasoned but I am of the opinion that Justice Kavanaugh needs to be confirmed this week, so he can sit at the beginning of the new SCOTUS session.
Also, I believe that the threats to the Judge, his wife, and his two children are severe and dangerous. Keeping this process going will only increase the probability a whack-job lefty will do something violent.
For these two reasons, my view is that confirmation should be completed this week.
Decent argument. What we really need is to rid the GOP of people who care what the Democrats/MSM thinks about them.
In retrospect, Grassley is the wise old owl I always thought he was. He and Mitch know the rules. They’re pounding this out on the ground, and President Trump is providing surgical strikes from the air. That being said, this can’t be dragged out forever, but I do think that having the final vote about 1 month from the election will be the perfect outcome.
At what point does Kavanaugh and his family tire of being falsibly dragged through the mud? That’s a concern.
Also getting the confirmation out of the way will deflate the Dems bubble. You can only keep people impassioned for so long on one thing before they move on to the next thing.
If he’s confirmed promptly, I doubt Dems can ride the inflamed masses all the way to the election.
IMHO
Also, recall that early voting is underway or will be soon in many states. A Kavanaugh confirmation can sway those early voters.
I think you better rethink that as being an objective of the Democrats. What do they gain by doing so? Nothing that I can come up with it. It doesn't help them in the midterms, or with controlling the Supreme Court.
Agreed, as long as the wobblies on the GOP side are game and won’t succumb to media pressure.
Senators,Our system of jurisprudence has always been based on the tenet of the presumption of innocence. The accuser must meet the burden of proving the accusation is true.
As a Justice on the Supreme Court, would you have had me rule that the burden was on Dredd Scott to show why he should be an American citizen, or should that burden have been on Sandford to demonstrate why Mr. Scott should not be a citizen?
Should the burden have been on Oliver Brown to show that the separate school his daughter was forced to attend was not equal to closer white-attended schools, or should that burden have been placed on the Topeka Board of Eductation to prove that "separate but equal" schooling was necessary?
Should I rule that the burden was on Ernesto Miranda to know his full legal rights when he was arrested, or should Arizona police have to inform Mr. Miranda of his right to an attorney when they arrested him?
Should Norma McCorvey have to justify to the state why she needed an abortion? Should Fred Korematsu have to prove his loyalty to the United States? Should women have to demonstrate their competency to sit on juries? Should the Cantwell family have to prove that their public expression of religion was not a breach of the peace and a public disturbance?
In our system, the accused has a right to know the specific charges and factual evidence against him or her. It is a mockery of our judicial system to suggest that a sitting federal appellate judge, or anyone else for that matter, has to prove his innocence against vague, unspecified, and suddenly recalled allegations, when the very essence of being a judge is to balance the rights of the accused with the rights of the accuser. The burden of proof is on those who make the claims, not on those who are their targets.
Thank you.
-PJ
I think you give the Republicans too much credit. They were no more prepared for this than with Hill. Impartial is past, time to step up and act like Republicans, support Trump’s nominee.
You might be right on this.
Here’s the tricky part.
Indisputable fact #1: The Senate GOP leadership sucks most of the time.
Indisputable fact #2: The Senate GOP leadership has done a tremendous job so far during the Trump administration on judges.
Both of those - to this point - are literally beyond rational dispute.
So.....given what we know, it seems this could go either way.
I’m inclined to think that the common sense of the American people will win the day here, and that the insanity of the dem establish including academia and the media will not.
If THAT is the case...then....I like your hypothesis. Keep giving the dems rope and they will hang themselves.
(Maybe :)).
I have noticed liberal associates on other social media - most of the educators-are now really quiet on the issue. At first they were energized but now it’s crickets.
The idea is to get Kavanaugh confirmed in time to participate on the SC when they start their next session around the first of Oct. The last thing they want to do is not have him confirmed by election day.
Why would anyone want to have their character assassinated while those who should be defending and promoting you - compromise to satisfy those intended to destroy you?
Excellent post.
It should be obvious to any rational person that Ford’s legal team has been playing rope-a-dope in order to avoid sworn testimony if possible.
It’s definitely politically advantageous to have her “re-victimized” at the hands of those horrible old monsters known as the GOP.
Great point that it is not the Senate’s job to defend the nominee but to get through their own procedures.