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What Democrats Have Become
WSJ ^ | 19 Sep 2018 | Daniel Henninger

Posted on 09/20/2018 7:52:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Brett Kavanaugh is a casualty of an anything-goes political resistance.

Consider the spectacle: Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, the embodiment of a modern rule of law, is being decided in the Senate by the medieval practice of trial by ordeal, such as surviving immersion in fire or ice. Trial by ordeal was outlawed by the Lateran Council in 1215.

Or worse, the standards of the mob in the Roman Colosseum, turning thumbs up or down on the combatants. Though unlike the Senate Democrats, the Roman mob at least had an open mind.

Incidentally, the standard trope that Donald Trump has degraded our politics? We don’t need to hear that anymore. Or about the moral certitudes of the religious right.

Is there a sadder figure in the modern Democratic Party than Sen. Dianne Feinstein? Elected to the Senate in 1992, Mrs. Feinstein has produced a creditable career. Her above-it-all reputation was never quite deserved, but she has at least performed with dignity.

Now, seeking re-election at 85, she is getting heat from the progressive-dominated Democratic Party in California, the world capital of identity-only politics. By withholding from the committee the accusatory Ford letter that came into her possession nearly two months ago, Sen. Feinstein ensured the nomination’s descent into such a hapless, cynical moment. This will be the most remembered event in Sen. Feinstein’s career.

The Kavanaugh nomination, “given what we know,” has come down to an undiscoverable accusation. The defeat of a Supreme Court nominee on this basis would be a victory for a level of conscious political nullification not seen in the U.S. for a long time. Republicans in the Senate shouldn’t allow it, and voters in November should not affirm it.

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Excerpt only. The entire article is behind the WSJ paywall.

Conclusion: This is a joke. Hold the vote tomorrow.

1 posted on 09/20/2018 7:52:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

What Democrats have become

COMMUNISTS

did I get it right?


2 posted on 09/20/2018 7:56:59 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Rummyfan

The GOP will be deservedly punished if they cave.


3 posted on 09/20/2018 7:57:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rummyfan

Same as it ever was.

Joe McCarthy had it right. Quick video of him, less than 2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iGGjGSdqf8


4 posted on 09/20/2018 7:58:26 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Pollard; rodguy911; radu; Texas Fossil; Steely Tom; hoosiermama; Albion Wilde; Jane Long; yoe; ...

Sparactus Booker

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=137354


5 posted on 09/20/2018 7:59:01 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats are exactly what Marx, Lenin and Woodrow Wilson wanted them to be.

They are just unmasking out of nothing else to lose.

Onward to Full Blown Socialism until the Communists kick in the door.


6 posted on 09/20/2018 7:59:03 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
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To: Pollard

Michael Savage made an interesting observation about Blasey-Ford:

https://michaelsavage.com/savage-kavanaugh-accuser-linked-to-the-abortion-pill-manufacturer/


7 posted on 09/20/2018 8:00:44 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And what good does that do? Guarantee Trump’s impeachment and then the ensuing socialism?

I can’t believe that conservatives will bale on republicans. What else is there? Democrats which are socialists/communists now.

You can say you stuck to your morals as they take everything you have “for the greater good”.


8 posted on 09/20/2018 8:02:17 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Rummyfan

SCUM are going to reap what they sow.


9 posted on 09/20/2018 8:04:15 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: Pollard

Yes, you got it correct. Democrats are communists


10 posted on 09/20/2018 8:04:39 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: realcleanguy

I vote for first class reprobates. As in the last days kind.


11 posted on 09/20/2018 8:06:15 PM PDT by Maudeen (http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
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To: Rummyfan

They are just toying with us.
Let me know when we get to the “examination of the genitalia”.


12 posted on 09/20/2018 8:11:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Rummyfan

Eventually the Rats will regret this. Even members of their own are getting fed up.


13 posted on 09/20/2018 8:13:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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And the registered Democrats march in lockstep. Disgraceful.


14 posted on 09/20/2018 8:18:00 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

From link on page you referred::

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=137353

“Christina Ford said she would not testify if Brett Kavanaugh is in the same room.”

I thought it was the essence of our legal system that it allowed facing their accusers? This is insane.

Bingo>>

“What’s Ford’s problem? Is it because she cannot look Kavanaugh in the eyes and lie about the incident?”


15 posted on 09/20/2018 8:19:55 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Huskrrrr

Eventually the Rats will regret this. Even members of their own are getting fed up.

><

You’re right.

The Rats continue to show their true, ugly colors and are becoming nastier and crazier by the day. They have no decency or shame. They are thoroughly vile. Normal, decent people are seeing it and don’t like it.


16 posted on 09/20/2018 8:22:19 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Huskrrrr

They’ll only regret it when fewer and fewer people vote for them. There is really no sign of that happening yet (except for the loss of 1,200 seats at the state and federal level during Obama).


17 posted on 09/20/2018 8:23:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rummyfan

That’s funny.

Last night I wrote this same thing...”literally “

Chrissy Ballsy Whored rode chariots back in the day and she would hitch a ride to the coleseum to watch the feeding of the Christians to the lions...


18 posted on 09/20/2018 8:39:05 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Rummyfan

WSJ needs to get their damn editorials on the other side of the paywall. They are seriously limiting their reach and effectiveness with that scam and nobody is gonna buy a subscription just to read editorials.


19 posted on 09/20/2018 8:40:23 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: Rummyfan
A Facebook user has posted the full article here.
20 posted on 09/20/2018 8:49:40 PM PDT by cynwoody
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