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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“...Sparactus Booker...”
Spartacus Booker??? Chuckle, Not so much, I think.
Spartacus was a MAN.
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.
“———————but I’d put his two girls in the front row at the hearing.”
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I assume you are kidding.
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She may not show.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Democrats have become
COMMUNISTS
did I get it right?
They have always been communists- they just hid it better
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...”
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.
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 .
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.
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."
Sanctimonious conservative puritanism self esteem enhancement requires bailing for any minor disagreement.
"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."
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.
What Democrats have become?
I was going with extinct.
Would that it were true.
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.
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