Posted on 09/25/2018 5:13:44 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
So much hypocrisy, so little time. – It would be impossible to detail all the rank hypocrisy coming from the political left related to the Kavanaugh nomination right now, but this tweet from Moveon.org just cannot go unmentioned:
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MoveOn ✔ @MoveOn Reminder: 77% of sexual assaults go unreported. That is NEVER the fault of the survivors. It is the fault of a culture that blames, shames, and doubts women. #BelieveSurvivors
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For all you Millennials out there who are too young to remember, Moveon.org’s name LITERALLY refers to the one and only reason for its creation in the late 1990s, which was to use Saul Alinsky tactics to convince the public to “just move on” from Bill Clinton’s serial sexual abuses. LITERALLY.
Ok, one more breathtakingly disgusting tweet from a leftist organization that cannot go unmentioned:
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Amnesty International ✔ @amnestyusa BREAKING: We are issuing a rare call for a halt to a vote on President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the #SCOTUS unless and until any information relevant to Kavanaugh’s possible involvement in human rights violations. http://bit.ly/SCOTUSaiusa
12:20 PM - Sep 24, 2018 7,369 9,088 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy That’s right, friends, the demented creeps at Amnesty International want you all to believe that Brett Kavanaugh is actually, in his spare time, a budding Saddam Hussein. Holy crap.
The Creepy Porn Lawyer is frustrated. – Speaking of demented creeps, Michael Avenatti was on Twitter on Monday complaining that his emails to the lead counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mike Davis were not getting returned in a timely manner. Someone really should let this guy know that the congressional email system automatically shoves any incoming emails whose IP address is Creepy.Porn.Lawyer.1 over to the spam folder.
But the Creepy Porn Lawyer is coming, and apparently a whole string of exactly who you’d expect are coming with him (no puns intended). – Avenatti’s latest story keeps changing, which is not surprising coming from this greasy carnival barker. He started it off with the following tweet on Sunday:
Michael Avenatti ✔ @MichaelAvenatti I represent a woman with credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh and Mark Judge. We will be demanding the opportunity to present testimony to the committee and will likewise be demanding that Judge and others be subpoenaed to testify. The nomination must be withdrawn.
6:33 PM - Sep 23, 2018 111K 55.3K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy But last night, in an interview on – guess where? – CNN, which is always willing to accommodate any anti-Trump hack who wants his face on national TV, the Creepy Porn Lawyer claimed to have “multiple” women willing to claim that Mr. Kavanaugh engaged in all sorts of sexual shenanigans while in college. He further pledged to start bringing them forward – no doubt also on CNN – within the next 48 hours. So, just in time to pre-empt the hearing scheduled for Thursday at which both Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Ford are supposedly going to testify.
Gosh, what a coincidence, right?
So, we now have the Democrats’ game fully laid out for all to see, and it goes like this:
Find some initial accuser willing to smear Kavanaugh and also willing to pretend to be willing to testify under oath; Derail the scheduled process by insisting that the first accuser cannot possibly be ready to testify by Monday, Sept. 24, and demand a later hearing; Once you get that later hearing scheduled, then issue a constantly-changing set of demands that you know Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley will not meet, because your client has no intention of ever testifying under oath and potential felony charges for perjury; As the new hearing date approaches, get another accuser who also has no earthly intention of testifying under oath out in front of the public to create confusion and place further pressure on Kavanaugh and cowardly senate RINOs Republicans like Jeff Flake and Susan Collins; As the second accuser’s story is being systematically shown to be an outright fraud that is even too fake for the freaking New York Times to run, bring out the Creepy Porn Lawyer to up the pressure with even more absurd and salacious claims against the nominee; All the while, have your depraved and evil Democrat senators like Dianne Feinstein and that brain-dead nitwit from Hawaii all over TV insisting that the Thursday hearing be cancelled because you know your “witness” has no intention of showing up for it. This is classic Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals 101. You have to give the Democrats credit – this bit of evil destruction of a good man’s reputation and life has been extremely well-coordinated. The obvious effort is to create such a high degree of confusion that the average member of the public cannot possibly figure out what the truth is and ultimately gets to the point where they all say “enough! stop this madness!” and the nomination gets pulled by its sponsors.
As we sit here this morning, there is no real way to know with certainty if the Democrats and their fake news media wall of propaganda will achieve their end goals, but the GOP’s foolish efforts to pretend their accusers are acting in good faith (they aren’t) and negotiating with their extremely expensive lawyers moves the ball forward for the bad guys with each passing day.
Majority Leader McConnell can make all the tough floor speeches he wants (he made a pretty good one on Monday), but until he calls an end to this circus and forces a vote on the nomination, he is playing directly into the Democrats’ twisted, gnarled hands.
In the end, McConnell, Grassley and the Senate Republicans are either going to have to take a stand and force a vote, or ask Kavanaugh and President Trump to pull the nomination. Had they done what they should have done and gone forward with the scheduled committee vote yesterday, they could be holding the final vote tomorrow.
The Senate Rs appear to be living under an illusion that if they just keep negotiating and compromising, their Democrat “colleagues” will ultimately start behaving reasonably and the pressure will relent. This is insanity and frankly stupid. In fact, the Democrats will only continue increasing the pressure and bringing more and more accusers out of the woodwork to make increasingly outrageous claims.
When it becomes obvious to even the most clueless GOP senate members late on Wednesday that Ms. Ford is not going to show up for Thursday’s hearing, McConnell and Grassley need to simply schedule a vote. If that doesn’t happen, then this nomination is dead, and our constitutionally-guaranteed rights to the presumption of innocence and to face one’s accusers are dead along with it.
It really is that simple.
That is all.
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Her dad is a Soros operative.
In May 2015, I drove alone from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC in about 7 days. I had two dogs and a cat with me and stopped often to eat, get gas, walk the dogs and make sure everyone had water. I stopped every evening before it got dark to find a motel for the night. That trip can easily be made in 4 to 5 days just by being less leisurely than I was.
There is a tremendous danger in permitting 36 year old unverified -- indeed, largely contradicted --allegations about high school misdeeds to define someone's character. If that becomes the standard, then it could fairly be applied judicial nominations at all levels, to politicians...even to ordinary citizens in private life. The Democrats have strong short-term political incentives to do it anyway...but what's the incentive for those Republicans to help establish that as the new standard?
To me, a refusal to let that become the new standard is really the most compelling argument to side with Kavanaugh on this, even if you're a squishy moderate.
500 miles isn’t that hard, especially if you are not driving. It’s less than 8 hours.
Turn on a book, and 500 miles goes pleasantly.
A thousand miles is rough to drive, but doable.
Judge Kavenaugh’s name is on the list of candidates for nomination for SCOTUS - and his name on that list was a positive rather than a negative in the eyes of the voters who elected Mr. Trump.That fact alone suffices to justify the Senate in voting on the confirmation of Judge Kavenaugh’s nomination without any inquiry - certainly without any public inquiry - into his character.
The committee’s work is finished.
CALL THE QUESTION!
Every senator up for reelection would bail.
Be that as it may, there is no other way forward, since the Democrats obviously can and will mass-produce character assassinations of Judge Kavenaugh (or anyone else so situated).If Judge Kavenaugh’s confirmation fails, that reflects on the character of any senator who votes against it - and on the character of anyone who subsequently votes for the reelection of that senator.
If Judge Kavenaugh’s confirmation fails, his only recourse will be to sue every participant in the assassination of his character. Trusting that by the time appeals reach SCOTUS, there will be a majority on SCOTUS to overturn NY v. Sullivan (or at least to carve out an exception to the “public figure” rule for a judge or any other nominee to SCOTUS). After all, the assassination of the character of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavenaugh reflect directly on the reputation of SCOTUS itself - and the fact that everyone on Mr. Trump’s list might file a favorable amicus brief on that point wouldn’t hurt.
The lesson of this travesty is that the reputation of the Senate Judiciary Committee - and hence of the Senate itself - has been compromised. The Senate Judiciary Committee is not now serviceable in vetting a nominee for SCOTUS, since anyone whom POTUS Trump would consider nominating knows better than to submit his/her reputation to its process. And the Senate as a body is no more trustworthy in that role.
This means that any future Trump nominee for SCOTUS - for the Kennedy seat or any other - will insist that Mr. Trump obtain the advice of senators able to vouch for the confirmability of his nomination before he accepts the nomination. And that the full senate vote expeditiously on the confirmation of the nominee.
There are only about eight Republican senators up for reelection this year.But any Republican senator who votes against confirmation of Kavenaugh votes for cynicism, calumny, slander, and libel. I think every Republican who votes against confirmation takes a very serious risk of compromising turnout.
I'm not sure that even with republican senators vouching that some wouldn't back out and leave a nominee hanging.
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