Posted on 09/22/2018 3:52:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It’s a kangaroo court.
Understand, this is not about Christine Blasey Ford. She’s a tool — a quite willing tool, but a tool all the same. This is not even about the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Brett Kavanaugh — it would be no different regardless of which nominee President Trump selected in consultation with White House counsel Don McGahn, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest of the originalist, conservative legal community come of age. Democrats do not want a model of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint elevated to the Supreme Court. End of story.
And who can blame them? Republicans did not want the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Merrick Garland to be elevated to the Supreme Court.
But the Left has turned the High Court into an über-legislature for imposing on the country the social-justice-warrior policy agenda that they cannot ride to victory at the ballot box. The Supreme Court is arguably just as vital to them as winning the White House, because justices often outlast even two-term presidencies by a factor of four or five.
Democrats are willing to use any tactics to block conservatives from the Supreme Court and seat their own ideologues. The question is not “Fair or unfair?” It’s “Will it work?” Republicans always seem flat-footed in response because they underestimate how far Democrats are willing to go to win, how willing they are to destroy people’s reputations if that’s what it takes. Republicans keep thinking it’s 1987 and the Bork debacle was the worst of it; in reality, we’re 30 years on, and the Bork debacle was just the beginning of it.
Maybe Chairman Grassley and his colleagues will figure that out on Thursday. Or is it the next Thursday? Or the day after the midterms? . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Ooooohhhhhhh..........
That Christine.
she’s toast
woman ford said was at the party:
“Simply put,” Walsh said, “Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.”
The lawyer acknowledged to CNN that Keyser is a lifelong friend of Ford’s.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/kavanaugh-ford-accuser-nomination/
They went through all the trouble to hold the Garland seat only to give it back now
The Demo-rats are once again turning our Constitution on its head and the Republicans are allowing it to happen. I am beginning to believe all the Senior Republicans are R. I. N. O.
Demo-rats were on the hunt for someone with sour grapes against Kavennaugh..... Laura Ingraham of Fox News found that Judge Kavenaugh presided over the foreclosure of Fords parents home. Good enough reason for Ford to “play’ their game.....
This is why the GOP loses. Why would anyone vote for an opposition party that always sabotages itself? Why bother voting for losers? It’s a wasted effort.
In truth, as I said a week or so ago: IF - when Blumenthal called for adjournment of the committee during the hearings circus - Grassley had asked him to confirm his motion, and Blumenthal had affirmed same, Grassley could have called for a vote right then followed by adjournment of the hearings.
None of this needs to have happened. Grassley is just not up for the assault against him.
Wrong link... The two links are too close together on this Kindle... hope you get the idea.
“Wasn’t Andy McCarthy a NeverTrumper?”
Yes, and he is now just barely pro-Trump. He just doesn’t like the shenanigans going on with the Mueller investigation and DOJ/FBI chicanery. I have always really admired him, but what’s up with not getting it about Trump? Who does he think would have been better?
Agreed
Yes until it became hopeless for Theodore
bmp
The best compilation of facts so far,and he is right,as soon as Grassley caved the first day it was over,this is a circus.
Grassley is an ass
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