Posted on 07/09/2018 11:08:23 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Seconds after it was revealed that Donald Trump had selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court choice, MSNBC on Monday night immediately freaked out and deemed him an extreme“right-wing” “conservative.”
Liberal MSNBC host Chris Hayes anchored the conversation just prior to Trump’s live announcement. He fretted: “This is a guy who cut his teeth on the Starr report. He has moved in conservative, right-wing legal circles for the entirety of his career.” A few seconds later, Hayes again warned that Kavanaugh “spent his life in conservative, right-wing legal circles.”
MSNBC brought on Jess McIntosh of the liberal ShareBlue organization. She yelled at the network’s audience: “Everybody who is in D.C. right now needs on get to NARAL Pro-Choice America's rally! Go to the Supreme Court! Stay there!”
[On breaking news that the nominee is Brett Kavanaugh.]
CHRIS HAYES: This is a guy who cut his teeth on the Starr report. He has moved in conservative, right-wing legal circles for the entirety of his career. He was largely seen as someone like Neil Gorsuch who would be in this position.
JESS MCINTOSH (ShareBlue Media Executive editor): Absolutely. And I think the least surprising thing about it is the point that Pete made earlier, which is we know about Kavanaugh is sympathetic to the idea that a commander-in-chief shouldn't be dealing with questions from investigators, shouldn't be indicted, shouldn't be subpoenaed, and we know that Donald Trump makes decisions about everything based on what that person can do for Donald Trump.
So as soon as that kind of legal thinking became paramount in Kavanaugh's resume, of course Donald Trump would pick him. It is the least surprising thing we could see. It is not about the pick. It’s about the vote. No matter who he put in, the fact a President under investigation for possibly colluding with a foreign adversary to take the White House is deciding to take our policy for the next generation, is absolutely insane. Everybody who in D.C. right now needs on get to NARAL Pro-Choice America's rally. Go to the Supreme Court! Stay there! The reason why we have Kennedy in the first place is because America got really, really mad about the possibility of Bork and they stopped it. And they got Anthony Kennedy instead. We can do this again but it’s going to be really, really hard.
...
HAYES: My reaction, twofold. One, I'm not surprised. It seemed like this was the most Gorsuch like pick of the bunch. And by that, I mean someone who had punched all the tickets. All the elite credentials and who had spent his life in conservative, right-wing legal circles in which people can be sure they're not going to get a Soutor. There is an entire infrastructure built up on the right to create processes, to create associations, pipelines of cultivation, to make sure that they get conservative justices appointed by Republicans who end up ruling in ways that align with their policy preferences and their constitutional theories.
The more they go after him, the more I like him.
I just hope he’s going to defend our second amendment.
faggotry and drama queen excess on display, no doubt, seeing who can be the most shocked and outraged (regardless of which name was selected)
Are they up for an Emmy for dramatic performance?
awww no..lol
These faggy theatrics are for that nitwit Senator Olympia Snowe. They are trying to get her to defect,
And remind me again why branches of the DNC Propaganda arms are allowed into the White House “Press” room, where they grill the administration? When will it be declared that they are nothing but DNC mouthpieces, and shown the door?
As I was on the road during this evening’s news, I listened to Fox on the satellite radio.
Then, for more entertainment, I switched over to MSNBC and caught Booker and MadCow trying not to break down crying.
Still smiling...
are they in hysterics?
noun
plural noun: hysterics
1.
informal
a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction.
“the child has been seized with regular fits of hysterics at bedtime”
synonyms: hysteria, wildness, feverishness, irrationality, frenzy, loss of control, delirium, derangement, mania
“a fit of hysterics”
2.
a person suffering from hysteria.
best histrionics?
noun
plural noun: histrionics
1.
exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention.
“discussions around the issue have been based as much in histrionics as in history”
synonyms: dramatics, theatrics, tantrums; More
2.
archaic
an actor.
I’m sure this story was written within an hour of Justice Kennedy announcing his retirement. The MSM is very efficient that way.
Elections have major consequences. We won!! It gets worse for communists from here!!
Suck it up butter cup. It gets much worse!!
MSNBC freaks....GOOD!
It didn’t matter who Trump nominated, the Left was going to freak out.
Hey, Randall! Here are some excerpts from Kavanaugh’s words in a case. There’s more behind the link.
Heller v. D.C. - Appeals (2010-2011, not the 2008 case)
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/DECA496973477C748525791F004D84F9/%24file/10-7036-1333156.pdf#page=46
[Excerpts:]
“KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge, dissenting:...
[...]
In my judgment, both D.C.’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and its gun registration requirement are unconstitutional under Heller.
In Heller, the Supreme Court held that handguns – the vast majority of which today are semi-automatic – are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens. There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semi-automatic handguns and semi-automatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses. Moreover, semi-automatic handguns are used in connection with violent crimes far more than semi-automatic rifles are. It followsfrom Heller’s protection of semi-automatic handguns that semi-automatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that D.C.’s ban on them is unconstitutional.
[...]
In my view, Heller and McDonald leave little doubt that courts are to assess gun bans and regulations based on text, history, and tradition, not by a balancing test such as strict or intermediate scrutiny.”
Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
Hysteric.] (Med.)
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
paroxism or fits.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
throat. The affection presents the most varied
symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
alone. Hysteric
I read that earlier. Just hope he holds to it.
Long Retired, I believe you meant Susan Collins. An in-dangered species, Republican from New England.
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