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Prediction: Future Supreme Court nominees will have minimal Senate hearings.
vanity ^ | September 26, 2018

Posted on 09/26/2018 1:13:45 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant

The Kavanaugh hearings are a mockery of a show trial. This type of hearing serves no legitimate purpose and makes future qualified candidates LESS likely to accept nominations. It is counterproductive in a big way. As Rush stated today, hearings are not required, and historically, affidavits were sufficient instead of hearings. Trump may have to fill two to four more vacancies, and he will seek to avoid the current farce.


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To: UnwashedPeasant

Who needs hearings when you have a kangaroo court...?


21 posted on 09/26/2018 1:32:41 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: DannyTN

Hold a fargin vote...The repubs are supposedly in charge of the Senate. They let the dems do all of these dog and pony sh!tshows on their watch. They let them slander Kavanaugh because they didn’t hold the vote.

They don’t call it kabuki theater for nothing.


22 posted on 09/26/2018 1:34:40 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Imagine the public spectacle that will occur when the semi-comatose Ginsburg doesn’t wake up from one of her naps.


23 posted on 09/26/2018 1:35:17 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Actually if they cave on Kavanaugh the process will be broken beyond repair. Future Majority Leaders may have no option than to take all nominees directly to the floor.

Mind you Kavanaugh was THOROUGHLY vetted by the current process in a way that would no longer take place if this occurs.

Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.


24 posted on 09/26/2018 1:35:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: McGavin999

Keep in mind the current nonsense all began happening in the press AFTER the hearings were over.


25 posted on 09/26/2018 1:36:36 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Electric Graffiti
The hatred is only temporary. In fact, if we get Kavanaugh confirmed soon, then in a month's time, this issue will rapidly fade.

The grandstanding during the actual legitimate hearings will still go on because it's party of our democratic process.

And everyone will know that the Dems are likely to pull more dirty tricks. It's now their trademark, and Trump is doing his best to make sure that label sticks.

On today's Scott Adams podcast he explained that Trump didn't bother to inject other big stories in the last week. And that's because Trump believes (Adams' guess) that the Kavanaugh shenanigans actually helps the GOP in the mid-terms.

Do you buy that argument?

26 posted on 09/26/2018 1:37:28 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: DannyTN
You can’t stoop to the democrat level.

Continue to think like that and we'll just

LOSE
LOSE
LOSE
LOSE
LOSE

God forgive me, it's time to fight fire with fire.


27 posted on 09/26/2018 1:38:31 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Alberta's Child

“put Kanye West on the Supreme Court as a temporary recess appointment.”

Make it James Woods and we got a deal. :)


28 posted on 09/26/2018 1:39:05 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: PSUGOP

i see.
well, replacing RBG with a used dog food can...
would be a HUGE improvement for the court!


29 posted on 09/26/2018 1:40:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: UnwashedPeasant

The process should start out with the statement that they will hold the hearing BUT nothing afterwards


30 posted on 09/26/2018 1:41:06 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: Buckeye McFrog

There’s those that say that if the current course is kept, it’ll eventually turn to bloodshed.

Simple fools, those.

It has ALREADY turned to bloodshed. Non leftists bloodied in the streets by Antifa, Repubs hunted and shot at a baseball field, hunted and assaulted in own front yard...

Buttercups need to suck it up because...

It is war.

It will be war to the knife and knife to the hilt.


31 posted on 09/26/2018 1:41:36 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

We’re not losing. Dem’s are.

We haven’t lost the Kavanaugh vote. It’s not been held.

We didn’t lose the Presidential election. We won, and we didn’t stoop to false allegations. All the allegations against Hillary were true.

There is as point where Dem’s wake up and realize that their party slings false allegations all the time.


32 posted on 09/26/2018 1:42:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Buckeye McFrog

We’re not losing. Dem’s are.

We haven’t lost the Kavanaugh vote. It’s not been held.

We didn’t lose the Presidential election. We won, and we didn’t stoop to false allegations. All the allegations against Hillary were true.

There is as point where Dem’s wake up and realize that their party slings false allegations all the time.


33 posted on 09/26/2018 1:42:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: UnwashedPeasant

The Demonut party has become nothing but a Sideshow filled with Freaks and Perverts


34 posted on 09/26/2018 1:42:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I looked at the Washington Post and NY Times websites today.

They each have a picture from Kavanaugh’s 1982 datebook.

He kept the datebook for 35 years.

The handwriting is neat.

Kavanaugh was highly organized and goal directed even back then in high school.

I’m sure he knew he was going to be a target for sex smears and could withstand them.

The Democrats will be far more careful in the future, so the sex smear tool can remain in their political toolbox.

Feinstein had fully justified doubts about using the sex smear tool.


35 posted on 09/26/2018 1:43:15 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: poconopundit

“Trump believes (Adams’ guess) that the Kavanaugh shenanigans actually helps the GOP in the mid-terms. Do you buy that argument?”

It just might help because most people don’t really know that the repubikans have allowed all of this...

It definitely wasn’t a premeditated strategy to get out the vote. Funding-building the wall and hanging deepstate conspirators on the national mall would get the base out in droves.


36 posted on 09/26/2018 1:44:02 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
NOT at all....

They will be more politicized..and more unruly.

37 posted on 09/26/2018 1:44:51 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: No Socialist
Can you imagine if RBG keeled over before the midterms?

It would be glorious to see the snowflakes on full melt down.

It would be worse than a meltdown. They would most likely spark the next full civil war in their violent barbarism.

38 posted on 09/26/2018 1:46:31 PM PDT by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Nope. They’ll only get worse. The parties are both addicted to grandstanding for their base at this point. Especially when it’s near election time. Expect future nominees to require months of “vetting” and probably 2 or 3 rejections before they finally let one through. American politics is theater, badly written melodrama theater no less.


39 posted on 09/26/2018 1:47:00 PM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: Electric Graffiti
(Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)

For who?

40 posted on 09/26/2018 1:47:08 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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