Posted on 09/26/2018 1:13:45 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
I will say this smear appears to have been their very last resort, after all else had failed. It is not risk-free. It can easily boomerang on Dems in many ways.
But if it keeps Judge K. off the court and destroys the process they’ll count that as a win.
Needed to be said twice!!!
This a good idea and probably will be implemented the next time Democrats are in power. I am not so sure the current problems are so much a result of the system or even the Democrats. We have a Republican problem. The Senate leadership has ample power and the tools necessary to impose discipline on their members, they just lack the will to use them. Committee chairman have adequate authority to control their committees but seem to buy into this idea that you must be fair to everyone. I don’t know why it is so difficult for Republicans to understand that politics is not about being fair to your opponent but about governing. Can’t they come to grips with the fact that you dare not try to be fair with a rattlesnake; he will bite you and his bite will kill you. That is just their nature, much like Democrats
Jeff Sessions is/was a deep-state swamp plant from the get-go. He picked rod rosenstein as his DAG(no accident). He recused himself from a ‘russian collusion’ HOAX.(A coup by the corrupt state). He then watched with glee as his DAG appointed a special counsel coup to take down Trump.
Jeff Sessions will go down in post American history as the most monumental rat bastard traitor there ever was.
Too late, they already cried wolf. Now they won't be able to do anything is the next nominee/candidate really did have a checkered past. Idiots.
For the next judge nominee, Grassley or who every is running the committee needs to demand at the beginning of the hearing to know if there are any sexual harassment claims and if so bring them forward now. Any claim that comes in after that time will be ignored. Force their hand right away. Also punish any false claims brought to the committee.
No.
NO.
This is different. The Democrats have attempted to write over the Constitution itself. They have fully, finally destroyed comity and equanimity, not just in the Senate.
NO.
This is not just a Pandora's Box. The GOP is now compelled to pull the exact same shit on the Democrats running for #2020.
And it will happen, in their primaries, all the way into the general, an accusation every.single.day -- not just against the creepers (Biden) but the women too -- and it will be internally rationalized; and it will have a tremendously detrimental effect on how we, as Americans, have perceived this moment, this month of September, 2018, that our Constitutional Republic has been ruined by Democrats -- down-on-their-luck despots flailing wildly -- who were not just unwilling to respect the legitimate outcome of a presidential election, but dared you and every FReeper and every sane American to come right to them and do anything about their sedition.
Why? Because they will not, they will never fill their hand and meet you in the streets. They would rather hide behind the Deep State and Schumer and Hopegnosis and simply abide that You.Never.Figure.It.Out.
It did. Lucky that I double click almost everything out of habit.
Future nominees to requiire months...
Expect sitting judges to carefully choose whether to retire... and if so when. They could resign immediately before election day... or immediately after election day.
Expect presidents to name replacements immediately before, immediately after, or at the key point in the campaign.
Regardless of the scenario, it has been politicized .. a natural progression since Bork and then Thomas to now.
If the President used 'Keystrokes' to reveal every communication between Ford and Eshoo/Feinstein/Schumer, this would be over tomorrow. Would even exculpt the comms between Ford and her husband and her therapist.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Well, the evidence is easily accessible, and would restore our Nation's belief in due process.
I can't be the only one who surmises Feinstein has had unease written on her face since she declared a week and a day ago that she doesn't know if Ford 'is truthful'; absolutely attached to the fact she knows NSI has accessed every.single.word she has communicated on this subject and forwarded it to the President verbatim as part of the daily Threat Matrix.
It does.
The Socialist Dem use each occasion to stress and weaken the institution. And now we see threats of physical danger for both the nominee and his/her family. And conceivably, such threats continue for the nominee's term on the court.
It would seem important to set a deadline. For example, public comments and pubic witnesses are to be presented within ____ days (perhaps 7-10). That would make the fabrication of seemingly credible - but false - claims a bit more difficult and tend curtail the number of claimants.
The Dems would be comfortable with that; see Janet Reno's 15 minute confirmation which was limited to two questions per R (as I recall).
They already are crying. I’d like to see them soil themselves in public or jump off tall buildings.
You may be right.
I would just say that Trump will set the example in 2020 and will not permit the GOP to sink to the level of the RATs. Though I do believe McConnell pulled a fast one on Judge Moore in Alabama.
Next Democrat President already has Kaepernick rested and ready. :)
If GWB was President, he would have already pulled the nomination.
There is much more going on here than a bunch of old foggy Senators.
This is a further attempt to keep anyone from investigating further into the FBI-CIA and if Kavanaugh gets in, key Senators, members of Congress and some of the MSM are looking at prison time.
We already see that DiFi was involved with the founding of Fusion GPS.
obviously, Feinstein is primarily to blame for this fiasco
but
the Senate leadership could have told her that her leaking of the letter without being able to vouch for its truth.... was unethical... especially since she did it only after the committee had finished its work on the nominee
“It would be worse than a meltdown. They would most likely spark the next full civil war in their violent barbarism.”
They can start CW2, we’ll end it. Who do they think has all the guns? Idiots.
Ginsberg is the perfect example of someone with serious health issues passing in their sleep, only without a pillow over their face, as happened with a healthy Justice Scalia.
Correct. Any Pollyanna prediction is whistling in the dark.
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