Posted on 09/21/2018 2:12:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
As soon as one playbook looks to be falling apart, the Left is drafting a new one—and it speaks to their unhinged disposition regarding this Supreme Court nomination. Judge Brett Kavanaugh was already facing a solid Democratic opposition. The two days of frenetic and drawn out hearings showcased a party who knew deep down that the game was up. The GOP had the votes—they still do—and his nomination would sail through. They tried the transparency pivot, asking for time to review scores of documents from his time as the White House Staff Secretary under Bush. None of those documents were relevant concerning his judicial acumen or legal theory. It was a delay tactic, the first salvo of many. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) refused his Democratic colleagues’ BS demands because he knew there was nothing that would change their minds; they already gave away the ball game when they announced they would oppose him. Why entertain the motion? So, onward we went.
Let’s recap where this nomination hit a snag: The committee vote was slated for today, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) decided to drop a bombshell: a woman named Christine Blasey Ford, alleges that a drunken Kavanaugh, then-aged 17, tried to sexually assault her at a party. This dropped at zero hour. DiFi had the letter since July, never told her colleagues about it, and apparently didn’t think much of it since it was never brought up during the hearings. Maybe it’s because the allegation has no evidence, no solid witnesses, and it’s over 30 years old. Ford can’t remember how she got to the party, how the party itself came together, and who owned the house where this attempted assault reportedly took place. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.
She claims she wanted anonymity. So, why did she hire a lawyer, Debra Katz, and anti-Trump democratic operative? Why did she have a polygraph administered by an unknown former FBI agent? These aren’t actions taken by a woman who wanted to remain quiet and cloaked in darkness. This has all the makings of a character assassination ploy. Progressives have torched Feinstein, however, for sitting on this letter that has plunged the whole process into chaos. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) a key vote on judiciary said that the initial committee vote should be postponed when these allegations dropped. He also said if Ford is a no-show at Monday’s hearing he will support the motion to move Kavanaugh’s nomination forward. Ford responded today, saying she would testify, but not on Monday. The Judiciary Committee has been very cooperative, offering Ford private, public, and even an interview at her house taken by staffers to get her story on record.
Still, Democrats want an FBI investigation. It’s delay, delay, and delay some more. Everyone sees it, which is why Senate Republicans weren’t caving to their crap. Yet, suppose Kavanaugh goes through, plan B is already set in place. Democrats are hoping anti-Trump anger ushers them into the majority this midterm season. So, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, reconvene next congress, investigate, and then impeach him. Yeah, they’re really still sour over Merrick Garland. Here’s an op-ed in The New York Times outlining the case:
The Constitution does provide that federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, “shall hold their Offices during good Behavior.” The settled understanding of this phrase is that so-called Article III judges enjoy lifetime tenure. But the Constitution also makes both judicial and executive officers subject to impeachment. And, as it happens, the House of Representatives holds “the sole Power of Impeachment.” If the Democrats win back the House in November, they can exercise that power.Impeachment proceedings in the House are investigative in nature and come with a full panoply of quasi-judicial powers, including aids to investigations, such as the power to subpoena witnesses to compel them to appear and testify (subject, of course, to constitutional privileges, if applicable, such as the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee against self-incrimination)
If a simple majority of the House decided to proceed with impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee would be empowered to conduct a thorough and careful investigation of the sexual misconduct allegations that Professor Christine Blasey Ford has made against Mr. Kavanaugh involving a drunken sexual assault when both were high school students in suburban Washington, D.C.
[…]
Of course, even if the House impeached Mr. Kavanaugh, it would still take a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict and remove him from the Court. But the Senate vote would surely have at least something to do with the merits of the House’s case: If a full and fair investigation shows that Mr. Kavanaugh has lied regarding the incident — he has denied it categorically and says nothing even remotely like it ever occurred — Republican senators may find it hard to vote “no” in the #metoo era. It would be a terrible blow to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, of course, but this is the risk that Senators McConnell and Grassley seem willing to take.
Moreover, an impeachment investigation could also encompass allegations that Mr. Kavanaugh has committed perjury before the Senate, twice, related to his work on the nomination of District Judge Charles Pickering to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Under oath, both in 2006 and in 2018, he said he had no involvement with the White House strategy sessions associated with Judge Pickering’s nominations. Subsequently released emails, involving these sessions, suggest that these answers were at best misleading and at worst totally false.
Attending a strategy session as a White House staffer is not a crime. Lying under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the other hand, is. Perjury would be a perfectly justifiable, and constitutional, basis for impeachment.
So, it’s a double-whammy; nab him on this Ford allegation, which is so thin it almost vanishes with the coming breeze. Oh, and perjury—overall, this is just insanity. Yet, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reiterated the position: if they get the gavels in November, they will investigate Kavanaugh (via Politico):
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said that “as soon as Democrats get gavels,” the party will vet the FBI’s handling of Ford’s claim against the Supreme Court nominee — even if Kavanaugh is already seated on the high court by that time.Rep. Eric Swallwell (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, also said in an interview that the party could probe Kavanaugh’s denials of the allegations against him.
"If they ramrod this nomination through, and we win the majority, we can still investigate this on the House side, and certainly the question as to whether a Supreme Court justice committed perjury is something you could look at,” Swalwell said in an interview. "Hopefully it doesn’t come to that; hopefully they do this right."
"Because," he added, "it’s going to get investigated either way and it would be better not to have to investigate a sitting judge.”
Their comments point to a continued Democratic focus on Kavanaugh that could help turn out liberal voters in November, regardless of whether the GOP can confirm him.
They really hate this guy. I mean, really hate him. We said it would get nasty. Abortion, liberal America’s favorite pastime, is under threat. They also see a 5-4 solid conservative majority for the next generation as something beyond intolerable, maybe even apocalyptic. For conservatives, that 5-4 solid majority is worth fighting for—and it is. It’s a street fight. It’s not a time to be nice to one another. It’s a time to break out the biggest guns you have to fight against these possibly false charges against Kavanaugh. It’s wartime, Republicans. Act like it.
It’s not a solid 5 to 4 court. Never forget Roberts upheld Obamacare.
The left’s obsession with abortion goes even deeper than that.
Their ultimate goal is the destruction of morality based western society.
A society that murders thousands of unborn babies a year cannot also maintain the facade of being morality based. Once the facade crumbles, the society will as well.
Keep dreaming.
It is reality. You are nothing but a 10% informed outsider.
If?
If i knew nothing whatsoever about Kavanaugh i would assume he must be really good for normal legal citizens of America.
Or, the left would not be trying so hard to stop him.
Yep, and Ruthie will flip that...That is why i am predicting left will use violence when her replacement is up.
She’s come under the influence of Feinstein and other democrat persuaders. Professor Ford is being used. If she ends up looking like a fool, Feinstein is to blame. Professor Ford is a victim of Feinstein.”””
BS BS and more BS.
She is her own victim. DiFi didn’t go trolling all around all the campus locations in the country looking for a
‘victim’ of this SC nominee.
Ford put her hand up & told the world “LOOK AT ME”.
The Dems probably made enough remarks to lead Ford to believe that this accusation would stick on her say-so alone, but she & the Dems calculated wrong.
There have been many false accusations made in both directions between genders in the past 80 years, and many voting Americans have been witness to such shenanigans.
IF she is SO EASILY INFLUENCED....By the Dems....why are we listening to her for more than 3 minutes?
IF this lynching is allowed to continue, there will be no interaction between men & women for a long time that is not suspect....
AGAIN-—WHERE IS MR. FORD??? Not very supportive of his own wife, it seems. Speaks volumes to me.
When God “stops” men from doing something in judgment it is always much worse for them that if they stop it. Especially compared to if they actually repent.
This kinda mirrors a thread over at Hannity where some guy asked why doesn’t YHVH just deal with Satan.
I tried to point out that if He did then He would also deal with all those other rebels, including men, who are following Satan’s example.
I further brought up something Paul speculatively asked — posing the question of what if God endured vessels of wrath to have vessels of glory — in relation to this judgment and Revelation.
The short, short version is: by judging those who will never repent now in that way it would also cut off the time for those who will be saved to repent.
In essence, what Paul wrote of might be described as an expediency: so long as there are vessels of glory yet to be it is expedient to not judge those of wrath. It isn’t that they don’t matter but in comparison they don’t matter nearly enough.
I personally think that about the time that the two witnesses in Revelation are slain by the AC and their bodies are put on display for three days as the world parties that that will be the last window when some, who have never taken the MotB of course, to realize what’s happening and repent. They will probably quite literally be the very last people who ever could or ever would repent in Christ’s name in this age if the Lord didn’t quickly act in judgment at that point, and so the possible expediency that Paul wrote of is no longer expedient ... and Christ returns.
Everyone who has taken the MotB is killed (the AC and FP are thrown into the LoF). Among those who didn’t take the mark the proverbial goats are separated from the sheep. Satan is bound.
This was my best effort to answer the question.
Next predictably came folks picking at some bits like they were playing Jenga but who am I that anyone should think dealing with me is them dealing with the issue?
Still, Christ has been attributed (Luke 18 IIRC) to wonder if He’d find faith when He returned. It’s best if men repent rather than wait it out.
“The counter attack against the Deep State and Democrats is beginning. Very soon they will be on the defensive 100%. The end is very near.”
Counter attack(?) I must have missed it, just who and how is this counter attack being launched?
The limp wristed little GOPe males had a case of the vapors and did everything they could to keep him from winning.
And now you are shocked when they use those tactics against your fair haired boy?
Truly dumber then advertised.
“BS BS and more BS. She is her own victim”
I have no sympathy for Ford but how could she not realize that she has no evidence backing her claim?
Possibly she thought all by herself that her unsubstantiated accusation would receive publicity as ammunition against Kavanaugh. More likely is that Feinstein thought “let’s use her as cannon fodder”.
My fondest hope is that Ford and Feinstein are publicly humiliated and that Kavanaugh is quickly confirmed.
Says IT ALL!
FISA documents being released for starters and arrests have been made of the lower level players.
[I personally think that about the time that the two witnesses in Revelation are slain by the AC and their bodies are put on display for three days as the world parties that that will be the last window when some, who have never taken the MotB of course, to realize what’s happening and repent. They will probably quite literally be the very last people who ever could or ever would repent in Christ’s name in this age if the Lord didn’t quickly act in judgment at that point, and so the possible expediency that Paul wrote of is no longer expedient ... and Christ returns.]
Close regarding the MoTB. It occurs mid-point of that 7-year period. When the abomination comes. This is also, IMHO, when the Two Witnesses are killed (mid-point). Now there is an (3rd) angel warning not to take the Mark of the Beast in Revelation 14. There is also an (1st) angel preaching the Gospel. Obviously some will refuse the MoTB, to their death, but to their eternal lives (Revelation 20 if memory serves). And a (2nd) angel preaches Babylon is fallen.
Regardless, good to know you’re reading Scripture and watching the Signs of the Times.
Revelation 14:6-11 King James Version (KJV)
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Revelation 20:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
“Moreover, an impeachment investigation could also encompass allegations that Mr. Kavanaugh has committed perjury before the Senate, twice, related to his work on the nomination of District Judge Charles Pickering to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Under oath, both in 2006 and in 2018, he said he had no involvement with the White House strategy sessions associated with Judge Pickering’s nominations. Subsequently released emails, involving these sessions, suggest that these answers were at best misleading and at worst totally false. “
Who can refrain from the knee jerk and factually comment on this one?
Did Kavanaugh perjure himself? Is it close enough that a regular person could be plausibly charged?
This is one solid conservative that would never have rallied behind Judge Moore.
I didn’t think him fit for office, even before the pervert allegations.
With him as a poster child you lose HALF the base, at least.
That sign was decades late. It should say impeach FDR, Justice Roberts and the other justices that kicked the Constitution to the curb.
WRT FISA, which the federal apparatchiks have now proven unconstitutional, we shall see if Kavanaugh, or any of the current scotus members, is really a "strict constitutionalist." On other legal questions, K seems to be good.
And yes, even though Rand Paul has reservations about K on this point, he will vote to confirm, as he should.
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