This is the sort of anger I appreciate seeing come out of the Kavanaugh persecution. Long article well worth reading in full.
Predictions and Observations on How the Coming Week Will Play Out for the Kavanaugh Confirmation
Dov Fischer
In the end, Democrat totalitarianism will be warded off and there’ll be only one Senate RINO left.
I begin by sharing forthrightly my abject disgust over everything I have seen play out since the President nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy to the High Court.
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I also am disgusted by the way thatsomeRepublicans have messed things. Let us note: thevast majorityof Senate Republicans are doing their job and are rock-solid on the Kavanaugh nomination. He has 48 of the 51 Republican Senators. That reality is not getting the attention it deserves from Republican conservatives. This is not Grassley’s fault; he has done his job. Rather, this is about:
Jeff Flake from Arizona who is taking his last bow before hiring himself out as a cable news commentator. Thankfully, President Trump long ago elicited from Flake outbursts on the Senate floor that demonstrated that he is not the conservative Arizona Republican whom his voters initially thought that were electing, and that is why he is out in a month.
Susan Collins, who simply cannot disregard that she gets elected in Maine, not Alabama or Mississippi, and knows that Republicans are better off with her covering her bases now than by her posturing as an uncompromising conservative and losing races in Maine.
Lisa Murkowski, a RINO who does not have the legitimate excuse that Collins has, because Alaska is rock-ribbed conservative, but Murkowski is impossible.
Richard Mourdock, the Republican fool who blew the Senate race in Indiana six years ago, when Democrat Joe Donnelly was easy pickins, because he just had to opine on rape and abortion.
Todd Akin, the Republican fool who blew the Senate race in Missouri six years ago, when Democrat Claire McCaskill was easy pickins, because he also just had to opine on rape and abortion.
The debacle last year in Alabama that saw Jeff Sessions’s safe Republican U.S. Senate seat lost, partly because of the Peter Principle disaster occasioned by elevating Sessions to Attorney-General beyond his level of excellence, and partly because the Republicans lost the seat to Doug Jones by running a candidate who got slimed by the Seedier Media and whose personal background left him exposed to such calumny.
Thus, Grassley is dealing well with a tough deck of cards. He has a committee of 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, and he rightly has been headstrong on getting Judge Kavanaugh approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. To do so, he had ten Republicans in favor, ten Resisters resisting, and Flake. So he cut a deal with Flake. He had no choice. So be it; that is how things get done in democracies. In return for agreeing to the pointless extra week’s FBI investigation — the seventh time they are investigating Judge Kavanaugh — Grassley got Flake’s vote. Remember: The Republicans could not get a committee majority to send Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the floor for a vote, but Grassley engineered Kavanaugh’s committee approval.
Now it goes to the Senate floor. Mitch McConnell has been training for this moment all his life.
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7. In past years, there were so many RINOs in the U.S. Senate on the Republican side of the aisle that no good conservative defense and counter-attack ever could be launched. It is telling that the Tea Party movement and the Trump Revolution now have so reoriented the Republican aisle in the Senate that only two true RINOs are left: Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Flake. (As Susan Collins’s voting record on all critical issues demonstrates, she is not a RINO but a Republican who needs to accommodate a Maine electorate.) Flake is out in a few weeks. Murkowski is the only RINO left right now. The conservative movement’s rank and file have come a long way in changing the party.
#mentoo ... Clever...