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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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To: ExTexasRedhead; Pollard; rodguy911; radu; Texas Fossil; Steely Tom; hoosiermama; Albion Wilde; ...

“...Sparactus Booker...”

Spartacus Booker??? Chuckle, Not so much, I think.

Spartacus was a MAN.


21 posted on 09/20/2018 9:06:00 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Texas Fossil

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

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Kavanaughs are good people, but I’d put his two girls in the front row at the hearing.


22 posted on 09/20/2018 9:19:44 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Linda Frances

“———————but I’d put his two girls in the front row at the hearing.”

I assume you are kidding.

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23 posted on 09/20/2018 9:21:29 PM PDT by Mears (')
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To: Linda Frances

She may not show.


24 posted on 09/20/2018 9:21:34 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: Linda Frances

Kavanaughs are good people, but I’d put his two girls in the front row at the hearing.

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Their parents would never subject them to that.


25 posted on 09/20/2018 9:49:45 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Rummyfan
Re: “Brett Kavanaugh is a casualty of an anything-goes political resistance.”

No.

He is the victim of a Republican Party that has no national leadership and is too cowardly to fight back.

When Trump and the Congressional leadership let the Democrats flush former EPA Director Scott Pruitt down the toilet, the game was over.

Scott Pruitt was the only consequential Conservative in the Trump Administration.

Get used to the Kavanaugh drama.

We're going to be watching the same movie every month for the next 2-6 years.

26 posted on 09/20/2018 11:02:43 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Rummyfan
What have democrats become?

They’ve thrown their lot in with Satan. They love lies and hate the truth. Their father is the Father of Lies.

They have the instincts of murderers.

27 posted on 09/20/2018 11:05:08 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

This is all about Abortion

Which casts a large net for many a woman’s soul to deliver to the dark prince

Feinstein and Durbin and Gilleebrand and all these celebrity harlots are all doing his bidding

That’s the focus of all of this.


28 posted on 09/20/2018 11:18:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: Pollard

What Democrats have become

COMMUNISTS

did I get it right?

They have always been communists- they just hid it better


29 posted on 09/20/2018 11:42:53 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Rummyfan

MUST READ ARTICLE.

“...Politics as trench warfare has relieved the Democrats of the burden of thought. Extending the Pelosi Rule—we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it—we now have the Gillibrand Standard.

Commenting this week on Ford v. Kavanaugh, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, another 2020 presidential aspirant, said, “I believe it is disqualifying, given what we know.” In other words, what she believes is based on next to nothing.

Put on defense by these accusations, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley unsurprisingly agreed to a hearing in which Ms. Ford would tell her story and Judge Kavanaugh would speak. Then the senators would vote.

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...”


30 posted on 09/20/2018 11:50:08 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: zeestephen

I hope you’re wrong. But even though Pres. Bush stood with Thomas, he was a weak president.

Trump appears to stand by Kavanaugh. I feel certain that intel is being used to blackmail the Republican leadership who are acting like sissy boys ever so sensitive to an obviously conniving pink pussyhat wearing liar.


31 posted on 09/20/2018 11:57:36 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: zeestephen

Very true.
They fed Pruitt to the Radical left assumed they stop .
I was not impressed by Trump caving here and on the Budget .
We need a spine .


32 posted on 09/21/2018 4:46:58 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The GOP will be deservedly punished if they cave.


Which is exactly their plan! We have to stick it out. Primaries are where we extract justice and vote out incumbents. But for now, we hold our nose and hang in there.


33 posted on 09/21/2018 5:11:49 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Huskrrrr
Eventually the Rats will regret this. Even members of their own are getting fed up

Liberal (traditional) Democrats are already regretting this; it's the Leftists now firmly in control of the party who, as Dennis Prager has often noted, think that "one can never be too far "Left". (He's also often noted:"Being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."

34 posted on 09/21/2018 5:22:52 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Pollard

Sanctimonious conservative puritanism self esteem enhancement requires bailing for any minor disagreement.


35 posted on 09/21/2018 5:32:55 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Rummyfan
Just ran across this quote from Judge Learned Hand:

"That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, becomes a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification of backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent."

36 posted on 09/21/2018 5:52:55 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rummyfan

Any of your friends and family who are unengaged politically need to realize that if the Dems get back into power THIS is how they will be ruling over us.


37 posted on 09/21/2018 5:58:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Pollard

What Democrats have become?

I was going with extinct.


38 posted on 09/21/2018 6:00:49 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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To: IamConservative
What Democrats have become? I was going with extinct.

Would that it were true.

39 posted on 09/21/2018 11:56:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: The Westerner
Re: “Trump appears to stand by Kavanaugh.”

I agree.

However, I don't see the deeply felt fighting spirit which is essential to stop this Hard Left tyranny in its tracks.

As to blackmail against the GOP Congressional leadership....

I have never really bought into that idea.

I mean, why would any rational Republican with deep dark secrets run for political office knowing what the Hard Left news media and the politically corrupt DOJ and FBI can do to you?

My opinion - most Republican leaders quietly support a center-left political agenda.

40 posted on 09/21/2018 2:30:04 PM PDT by zeestephen
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