Posted on 10/14/2020 2:32:51 AM PDT by Libloather
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RUSH: So Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a Democrat senator from - I don’t know - Connecticut or he’s from New Hampshire, Rhode Island, wherever. Sheldon Whitehouse. He’s probably one of these guys in high school and college that was just a nerd that ran everybody ragged, irritated ’em. He’s now a United States senator. (interruption) “Rhode Island.” Figures.
He was going to destroy Amy Coney Barrett. He was gonna destroy Amy Coney Barrett on the subject of dark money. Now, dark money in this case, he wanted to show how (sinister) “There’s a secret network out there that’s getting justices named to the court!” So he puts up the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo. Leonard Leo run the Federalist Society; then he put up another little thing that looks like a pamphlet.
“This is the Judicial Crisis Network, Carrie Severino. (Gasp!) These are evil people out there, don’t you know? Nobody knows about them, and they are cultivating all of these robot conservatives out there to just be conservatives. That’s all they’re doing, and then they have the ear of Trump. Whenever there’s a vacancy, they go here! Dark money sustains this operation.”
Then the third little pamphlet he had encompassed a whole bunch of other legal groups. So, A, it isn’t illegal. It isn’t dark money. There’s nothing untoward about the Federalist Society. You know how to understand why they don’t like the Federalist Society? It’s the same thing as understanding why they hated the Tea Party. The Tea Party was an organic, bubbled-up-out-of-the-American-population political group that had no leader.
They couldn’t control them. So the Democrats went out and created Occupy Wall Street, tried to make it look like it was organic, but it wasn’t. Now here came Sheldon Whitehouse today trying to say that the Federalist Society is some dark money group. The Federalist Society is nothing more than American patriots. To suggest that Democrats don’t have a network of young judges on various courts that are not being groomed for the Supreme Court?
It’s absurd. Of course they do! But nobody else is supposed to have one, you see. Nobody else is supposed to do this kind of stuff. Nobody else is supposed to be able to have the same kind of operation that Democrats do. Now Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society - of which Justice Scalia was a proud member. So Sheldon Whitehouse tries to turn all of this on Amy Coney Barrett, because she’s a member of The Federalist Society.
He tries to shame her, to intimidate her into believing she’s the product of dark money. She’s the product of this silent operation to groom little mind-numbed judge robots. He was so frustrated. He questioned Judge Amy Coney Barrett for 30 minutes. Do you know how many words she uttered in the 30-minute Q&A? Zero. He never broke for a question.
I take it back. He did pause, giving her an opportunity to jump in, ’cause he thought that he had set her up. He thought… Sheldon Whitehouse thought that he had prompted her, intimidated her, maybe had roused her up enough that she had to say something. She just sat there. In a 30-minute Q&A, Amy Coney Barrett said not a single word. They can’t touch her. They moved on.
One of the reasons they moved on is because Ted Cruz came along (he was next) and exposed Sheldon Whitehouse’s own dark money network with a chart that actually showed the flow, the institutions and the flow of money that Sheldon Whitehouse has. Sheldon Whitehouse just had a little pamphlet that said “the Federalist Society” with a down arrow to Leonard Leo.
Ted Cruz had the names of the banks.
He had the names of the accounts.
He had all of these various things that tied Sheldon Whitehouse to it.
Projection is one of their favorite things to do.
After watching the Whitehouse ‘chatter’...I had the opinion that the guy had walked into the wrong ‘hall’ and thought he was giving a anti-crime presentation.
Thanks for posting.
I had something else going on and had the TV on but muted and could see this vile Sheldon Whitehouse going on and on about something but didn’t know what it was. Then saw Senator Cruz come on and same deal - saw he was speaking and wanted to hear what it was about but had to keep the TV muted.
So, am very glad to find out what this was all about.
Thank God for Senator Cruz!
I thought Whitehouse was going to commit suicide right there on tv. He was ranting like a nut case and obviously his blood pressure was sky high. I have seen this nut case act like that in previous hearings. He is mired in the mud of dark money but, he is so big of a part in it all. Typical demwit.
When I saw clips from Whitehouse, I was wondering how ACB could keep a straight face. You just know she wanted to laugh at him.
She’s tough...impressive.
Maybe OJT for all the numb arguments she will be hearing for the next 40 years?
ACB should have responded that Whitehouse should include the Dark Money connection to Jack Ruby, DB Cooper, and the Clinton Foundation.
You are correct, she is very impressive, but that fat fart from Hawaii has me a little concerned.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is an inveterate windbag. He spent an entire half hour filibustering Amy Coney Barrett without asking her one question. His entire speach was about dark money in selecting judges. Nobody really cares about what he was talking about. He has no idea what an ass he made of himself.
Ted Cruz gave an award winning performance! The best I’ve ever seen. It you didn’t watch it, I highly recommend you do!
“Amy Coney Barrett had to sit through that mess for nine hours?”
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Amy’s control of her body language is stellar.
Maybe he’s a Joe Biden wannabe.
I saw most of Ted’s comments at lunch. Exceptions. Made Whitehouse look like a liar without directly calling him one . . .which he is
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