Posted on 09/05/2018 11:53:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week, Democrats pulled out all the stops in their attempts to stop President Trump's pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, from gaining a seat on the Supreme Court. Now, Democrats have no power to stop Kavanaugh's ascension; thanks to former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Democrats invoked the so-called nuclear option in order to reduce the burden for approving judicial nominees down to a simple majority. This has left Democrats and their allies with two options and two options only: screaming and whining.
First, the screaming.
Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., both of whom have already announced they will not support Kavanaugh's nomination, attempted to shut down the Senate Judiciary Committee Kavanaugh hearing. Harris immediately called for an adjournment so that she could supposedly review more of Kavanaugh's documents. Then Booker jumped in. By the end of the first 40 minutes of the hearing, Harris had interrupted eight times; Booker 10 times; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., 13 times; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, six times; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., three times; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., twice; Se. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. once; and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., once. Apparently, all were acting at the behest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was attempting to run out the shot clock ... or something.
That was just the beginning. Women's March activist and terrorist sympathizer Linda Sarsour showed up to scream at Republicans; she was arrested. Several more feminist protesters showed up dressed as cast members of "The Handmaid's Tale"; other feminists simply screamed at the top of their lungs during the hearing, forcing their ejection. Planned Parenthood Action tweeted, "This is what the resistance looks like, and we're going to fight like hell to #StopKavanuagh.
The screaming, needless to say, did not work.
And so, the Democrats deployed the next prong of their attack: whining. First, a bevy of leftist commentators on Twitter deployed to inform Americans that Zina Bash, a former Kavanaugh law clerk, was secretly utilizing a white supremacy signal while sitting behind Kavanaugh. Amy Siskind of The Weekly List tweeted, "What fresh hell is this!!!??? Kavanaugh's assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!!" Eugene Gu, a Twitter celebrity doctor, called the supposed sign a "national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law." Video of Bash earned millions of views on Twitter within a few hours.
There's only one problem: Bash is half-Mexican and half-Jewish, and her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Oops.
But more whining was in order. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland shooting victim, stated that he tried to introduce himself to Kavanaugh but Kavanaugh wouldn't shake his hand. Again, there was only one problem: That never happened. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah explained: "As Judge Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened."
Here's the truth: Judicial hearings are largely useless at this point. Thanks to the destruction of Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork in 1987, judicial nominees know not to answer direct questions about judicial rulings and philosophy, and senators know to only ask questions most likely to land them on television. With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should simply bring up Kavanaugh for a vote and end this circus.
But he won't. The circus will continue. Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.
There’s a white supremacy signal? I didn’t know that.
No, they’re tantrums.
That’s what the rats claim
Sure there is ...haven't you ever seen "The Little Rascals"?
And Bob Woodward says that Trump is having a nervous breakdown?
Progressives always project their own faults onto others. So Trump is accused of instability as cover for their own instability. As they continue to sink into the pits of Hades.
I have a picture of my 4 year old granddaughter doing that. Her stepmom taught her that as a part of Yoga meditation. While doing your meditation you do that with your thumb and forefinger, and if you’re ever in a stressful situation but can’t do the full meditation exercise, you put your two fingers together wherever you are and it’s supposed to trigger the same relaxing feeling as the whole exercise. I’m sure it was pretty stressful in there yesterday.
The strategy is to rule the world with 6 people - president + 5 supreme court justices. Progressives were “this close”, and Hillary was a lock.
Then us deplorable Trump supporters got in the way. Their strategy is set back at least years. Their current tactic to advance the strategy is “Screaming and Whining” since they have nothing better. They will be set back decades unless they find a way to get their strategy back on track.
They have no strategy (or interest in one) that involves ruling the world with majority-elected representatives (progressive theory is based on the opposite of that). So they will do ANYTHING to try to make their current strategy work.
1. It would be nice to see the names of all the protestors who were removed from the hearing. How many of the protestors are government employees?
2. The protestors can continue with their ‘temper tantrums’, but as anyone knows a temper tantrum rarely is listened to.
3. Just listening to FOX as I write and they report that some of the protestors removed yesterday were back in the audience today to raise ruckus again. Our Federal Government is really messed up. Even more reason the Trump to drain the swamp.
Baby Booker or Hysterical Harris could be our next President...at least over in the parallel universe where dims rule.
ASK anyone if they want these crazies in charge?
Goodness, not since I was five years old. I think I blocked them out of my memory.
[And Bob Woodward says that Trump is having a nervous breakdown?]
Trump is laughing his ass off at this nonsense.
The Democrat party needs to be renamed The Mob Party.
Ben Shapiro is an idiot. Yes, he makes logical points now and then. But last night on his radio show he said that Kavanaugh was being considered for Scalia’s seat.
I find him challenging to listen as he rushes through his statements with a voice and cadence that sounds like a 13 year old.
He occasionally has valid points yet his Trump hatred slips out all the time.
I find it boring.
They are, but only if you’re five. (or a lib) Each has about the same amount of intelligence and credibility. And yes, I know I’m insulting 5-year-olds.
over the in the parallel universe where dims rule...
This is the perfect time to state that terrific line:
Let’s not go there.
What a dystopia.
I know little about Ben Shapiro but heard that he is a never Trumper.
That’s the wrong side of the line for me.
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