Posted on 09/22/2018 10:09:39 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
Around an hour and a half to go....again. Will the second trombone player grow a pair?
Peculiar venue for a #MeToo victim.
Good to start a “live” thread for all the people hyperventilating over the weekend.
Sen. Grassley knows what he’s doing and is giving Dr. Ford plenty of rope to hang herself.
Hopefully, people here won’t hyperventilate and blow a gasket and die before next week. Why?
Because next week Judge Kavanaugh will become the next Supreme Court Justice.
Have a nice weekend FRiends.
Spellchecker
Sen Murkowski said early on she would vote ‘no’ on the Confirmation. Trying to cater to her for her vote is to put water in a bowl with the bottom of the bowl missing. Please continue to keep Mrs K and the family in your prayers. They are the ones keeping Judge K in the running by standing behind him.
Who said?
What is the “checkmate”? She can lie unde oath all she wants, and nothing will happen to her.
It’s important to hold the Senate but I think the most important win would be Blackburn. Having a conservative woman in his day and age if very much needed. Currently the only women in the GOP are basically leftwingers. Blackburn needs to be on the Judiciary committee for sure! Keep, Murkowski, Collins and maybe even Paul far away.
Grassley should have set hearing at 10am Monday and vote at 10am Tuesday. Don’t negotiate. She either shows up Monday or there is an empty chair.
Is it an absolute certainty that no Democrats will vote for Kavanaugh? Before this charade, it looked like a few very vulnerable Dems. might shift.
“I’m going to dinner tonight, but I hope to be back for the 10 pm deadline and cave.”
The deadline for her to agree in 2:30 PM today, not 10pm.
P.S. -- Alberta is a place, not a person. LOL.
Every Republican but President Trump have been castrated and had their spines removed. Not one ever takes a firm stance. That is shy President Trump is President.
Thank you for that post.
Too many here don’t see their coffee cup as still half full
You’re absolutely right about Thomas. I read his autobiography this summer and came to really love and admire him. The best chapters in the book are the nomination process/Anita Hill lies.
He should just say time’s up, vote is on for Monday. If you want to show up and testify, you know where to find me.
No problem. It wouldn’t surprise me at all, though.
Thanks. I thought I read it, but maybe I heard it. What ever, I’m no longer inclined to think she will be on. It would not make sense at this point.
Perhaps not here, but we might remember the Founding Fathers' reasons for requiring the oath in the first place--reasons eloquently expressed by 19th Century Black Ohio State Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett:
The oath of office required for representatives of "the People" was intended to be sacred and binding, because that oath is a vow before the "Sovereign" of the Universe, and its violation carries penalities both human and Divine. President George Washington described it in this manner:"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"
For an amazing history lesson and sermon by the Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, readers might want to visit the Library of Congress and read the entire text of his Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, paying special note to the excerpts below which discuss and describe the nature of the oath:
From the Library of Congress: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Centennial Thanksgiving sermon,: delivered by Rev. B.W. Arnett, B.D., at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio
CENTENNIAL THANKSGIVING SERMON
Excerpt from P. 31, in which he is discussing the Declaration of Independence:
"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare: That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, and in a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." - JOHN HANCOCK.
Arnett continues:
"And the names of the whole Congress followed. You see that there is Divinity in this immortal document. Can we find in the "Articles of Confederation" anything to support the position that the founders of this government intended that it should be a nation for God, and that his religion should have a place in this land. It says: "Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual union." Thus we find this assembly thanking the Governor of the world for inclining the hearts of men. Who can move the hearts of men but God? But we find them in reverence bowing to the Governor of men.
"We now call your attention to the Constitution of the Nation and let us examine that instrument in the light of the men who formed it, and we will see that this was intended to be a Nation founded in Righteousness and Justice. What does the instrument say on this subject:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"Article VI says: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall be required as a Qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
On Page 37, Rev. Arnett described the nature of "oaths and affirmations" as follows:
"Oaths and affirmations are appeals to God, by him who makes them, that what he has said, or what he shall say, is the truth. It is the most solemn form under which one can assert or pronounce anything, and its violation is a crime of the darkest hue; one which God has declared he will punish; one that is made infamous and punishable by fine and imprisonment, by the laws of the land. Thus Christian obligation is required of every officer of the general Government, who fills any position of trust, honor or emolument. Many reports are required in the form and shape of affidavits."
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