Posted on 09/08/2018 1:37:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
I love Lindsay Graham.
The witty South Carolina senator, who's usually more entertaining than most comedians, has been one of the highlights of the otherwise depressing televised Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Graham put it perfectly Thursday morning.
He said some people had been coming up to him and asking if this week's ugly display of disruptions, rude moronic outbursts from the gallery and Democrat grandstanding had become a circus.
"I'm here to defend circuses," Graham said, pointing out that it was safe for parents to take their kids to the circus but not to let them watch Senate confirmation hearings - as Judge Kavanaugh found out Tuesday when his daughters had to be taken out of the raucous chamber.
The Democrat circus' acts included rookie Corey Booker of New Jersey pandering to his base with his cliched leftist ravings.
Then on Thursday, Booker dramatically announced that he would deliberately break the Senate's rules and release "confidential" documents that would risk his expulsion from the Senate.
Booker, who showed the whole country why he's never going to be the second coming of Barack Obama, was given several hours of glory by the Liberal Resistance Media even though they knew the "confidential" emails he exposed had already been cleared for release.
It's been sad to watch what dumb things self-serving Senate Democrats like him are willing to do to discredit a highly qualified nominee like Kavanaugh.
Booker and my senator, Kamala Harris of California, were more interested in creating "tough guy" videos for their 2020 presidential runs than engaging in serious constitutional discussions.
The Democrats are acting like circus clowns, because they and their progressive allies in the liberal media are scared to death of Judge Kavanaugh.
He's not their kind of guy. He's someone who wants to strictly follow the Constitution, not evade it or misinterpret it or rewrite it.
I hope the American people see the Democrats for what they are - sore losers with no ideas and no plan.
They still want to impeach the president even though there is no impeachable offense.
Bob Woodward's gossip book "Fear" came out this week, and the Trump haters went nuts. But most of it was old or fake news and there is nothing impeachable in it.
It's the same deal for that anonymous op-ed from a Trump staffer that the New York Times ran on Wednesday. There's nothing new or impeachable in it, despite the desperate excitement of CNN, the Washington Post and Joe Scarborough.
Every president's administration has had people who don't agree with his behavior or policies. A few of them will leak or snitch or lie to the media.
What we have today in Washington is that there are lots of anti-Trump people who can get printed anywhere. It doesn't matter what the New York Times' op-ed or Woodward's book says, however, because there's still nothing impeachable.
For those people who say they don't like Trump personally, I get that.
Paying off two women to keep their silence about things that happened long before he was elected is not a good reflection on his personal morals. But it's not an impeachable offense.
We know President Trump brings a lot of deserved criticism on himself. But again, I remind you: No one liked Ty Cobb and he's in the Hall of Fame.
So let's put this in perspective - which the liberal media rarely ever give us.
After less than two years of President Trump, the economy is booming. Unemployment is down. Taxes and regulations have been cut.
In the end the president is doing everything he promised he'd do - including naming strict constitutionalists to the Supreme Court and other federal benches.
This week we've been watching Trump's legacy being constructed. It'll live on at the Supreme Court for decades, because, as a recent president said, "Elections have consequences."
So while Booker and the other members of the Democrat circus cry and make clowns of themselves on national TV, let me be the first to congratulate Judge Kavanaugh on his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democrats get the circus, we get another Supreme Court Justice. I will take that trade.
Nailed it.
Are we really in danger from the likes of Booker & Harris? An old quotation from Karl Marx occurred to me a while back: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
The first time around resulted in Stalin & Mao. Truly tragic for their countries & the world. This time around the socialists are being led by these people, & Alexandra Occasio-Cortez & Julia Salazar, etc., etc... Truly a ship of fools. Their actions are foolish & their beliefs are idiotic. Yes, they have followers, but more & more I believe we’ve passed a corner on this stuff.
At the circus you can see death-defying trapeze acts. At the Kavanaugh hearing you can see stupid political stunts. At the circus they have lion tamers. At the Kavanaugh hearing they have race baiters. The circus has elephants. The Kavanaugh hearing has an elephant in the room that no one acknowledges.
I agree, they personally pose no danger, rather it's the new authoritarian ideology they are putting forward that is dangerous. Altho some of the new Ds are identifying as socialist I'd argue that what we're seeing is new and as yet, nameless. It's a morphing of a powerful central government with crony capitalism and private, global social monopolies. Some call it globalism, internationalism, corporatism, all are valid to a degree. The bottom line for me is we're not in normal R v D politics; what Booker & Harris are selling is dangerous to individualism and personal freedom.
“It’s sad?”
It’s filthy rotten to the core...not sad.
In no Graham fan, but he did a great job at those hearings.
FWIW, my impression of the hearings is that he’ll be much less conservative than I’d like. He is pretty much 100% Establishment. I think he’ll be much more like Kennedy than Alito or Thomas. I hope I’m wrong
Yes, what they’re selling is dangerous. And too often our side isn’t effective in responding. But with the real-time example of Venezuela, & conversation about what fascism really is, I think we’re already beating them back. We’re not done yet by a long shot, but we are making progress.
How is this different than any other Republican nomination hearing for the Supremes.
Beck apparently has another book (“Addicted to Outrage”) coming out. The implication of the book is that Americans are all irrationally outraged, and we need to reduce our political rhetoric to restore civility and productive national debate.
I believe Beck is entirely off course in his analysis. It is our growing federal spending and national debt levels, which continue to expand unchecked, that have intensified both Tea Party and average American citizen concerns - and motivated "building the Wall" and other policy interests. We are headed for economic chaos (destruction of capital markets, and high inflation) if we do not see sovereign debt begin to at least level off, if not decline, under Trump. I admire what President Trump has done, but until I see debt and deficits change direction, I for one will remain "rationally outraged" and I will remain on “high” alert politically & financially over the next several years. It would be a shame to have markets crash due to unsustainable debt levels that were not Trump's doing but that happen under him, I hope he addresses this soon. By both cutting fraudulent welfare spending, and using our economic growth to reduce debt/deficit levels.
I’ll cede to the floor that Graham did a good job w/ this circus. But he’s still an a$$hole, overall.
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