Posted on 09/24/2018 11:03:27 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Sorry for the vanity post. I've been reading so much that it's hard for me to get a grasp on the actual vote count for the nomination.
Let's say for the sake of argument that the Judiciary Cmte votes on Thursday to send Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate.
Does anyone know what the current vote total is for the nomination? Have any GOP senators said they're voting NO?
On both sides of the aisle, are they any holdouts - for example, Manchin, Collins, etc?
If you had to guess, what will the vote for confirmation be? 52-48 in favor?
Let's hear it.
Collins and Murkowski said we must here from the woman first.
Flake is flakey.
Here’s what I suggest.
President Donald Trump announces today that one of two things will happen by the close of business this Friday:
Either Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, or all the details including every single name involved with the $17 million dollars of taxpayer money that has been used to settle sexual harassment claims in our legislative branch is made public.
Oooooooh ... if only! (and I mean just the threat alone!)
He’ll be confirmed by one vote including Pence. The pathetic cowards are horse-trading as we speak, based on who has the greatest political need to wuss out, and and who has to help get it done. God I hate the GOP cowards, but I love POTUS and I love MAGA. This will all be over next week.
Why is all this crazy crap by the Rats going on today? Like I said many times: It all starts and ends with the Clinton crime family.
From Wikipedia:
“Kavanaugh was a principal author of the Starr Report to Congress on the Monica Lewinsky–Bill Clinton sex scandal; the report called for the impeachment of President Clinton.[26] He urged Starr to ask the president sexually graphic questions and argued on broad grounds for the impeachment of Bill Clinton,[33][34] describing Clinton as being involved in “a conspiracy to obstruct justice”, having “disgraced his office” and “lied to the American people”.[35] The report provided extensive and explicit descriptions of each of the President’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, a level of detail which the authors described as “essential” to the case against Clinton.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh
The hearing is Thursday now? WTF?!
Prediction:
Flake votes in favor.
Collins/Murkowski vote against.
Pence breaks the tie.
Kav. confirmed.
I love this POTUS. we need to hear this from time to time
Oh, forgot the DEMS:
Manchin votes in favor.
Heidkamp against.
Donnelly - not sure.
After Conserves Win Midterms need to Repeal the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Hoo Rah.
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000
If this gets dragged past election day (which the Donks desperately want) NO democrat will vote him, they won’t have to face the voters in the red states they represent, at that point.
Thanks, Liz!
I thought the Constitution says that the Senate must vote on nominations for the SCOTUS. It says nothing about hearings. If that’s the case, why not just say screw it and send the nomination to the Senate for a vote. Every Democrat will vote No anyway, so why not just get the job done? Come on, GOP, grow a pair.
Hat tip Wikipedia: “Kavanaugh was a principal author of the Starr Report to Congress on the Monica Lewinsky–Bill Clinton sex scandal; the report called for the impeachment of President Clinton.[26] He urged Starr to ask the president sexually graphic questions and argued on broad grounds for the impeachment of Bill Clinton,[33][34] describing Clinton as being involved in “a conspiracy to obstruct justice”, having “disgraced his office” and “lied to the American people”.[35] The report provided extensive and explicit descriptions of each of the President’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, a level of detail which the authors described as “essential” to the case against Clinton.”
The Democrats’ Creed ---what they really believe (hat tip Michael Kelly)
Democrats believe President Bill Clinton. And have always believed him. Democrats believed it when Clinton said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him later when Clinton said he had merely “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Democrats believed him when Clinton he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when Clinton reportedly said he did bed her down.
Democrats believed the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to celebrities, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
Democrats believe that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
Democrats believed President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans and believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Democrats believed Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. Democrats believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Democrats believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46.
Democrats devoutly believe in "no controlling legal authority"....but not for Nixon or Trump.
Democrats believed Bruce Babbitt when he said that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. Democrats believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
Democrats believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. Democrats agreed with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Democrats firmly believe in the “Clinton Standard” of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.” Democrats noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely.” Democrats devoutly believe, as Clinton does, that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have"given the president money, as long as nobody can find "evidence" of this being the "sole" reason.
Democrats believe president Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses.
Democrats believe that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
Democrats believe that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Democrats believe, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Democrats firmly believe Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship. Journos believe that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Democrats see nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.
Nor did Democrats read anything significant into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
Democrat believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Democrats believe, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to malign the saintly Clintons.
Excellent idea!
The reason Di Fi will not let ,Ford testify
“Capitol” Idea!
Good plan.
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