Posted on 09/25/2018 10:16:05 AM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON — Republican Party leaders may be insisting that they will install Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, but Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is offering a blunt warning of her own: Do not prejudge sexual assault allegations against the nominee that will be aired at an extraordinary public hearing on Thursday.
“We are now in a place where it’s not about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh is qualified,” Ms. Murkowski, a key swing Republican vote, said in an extended interview in the Capitol Monday night. “It is about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed.”
One of two Republican woman in the Senate who supports abortion rights — Susan Collins of Maine is the other — Ms. Murkowski was always expected to be a critical vote in Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. But she is making clear that, beyond matters of reproductive rights, she is deeply troubled by Christine Blasey Ford’s story of a sexual assault by Judge Kavanaugh when she was 15 and he was 17.
In the interview, Ms. Murkowski emphasized how invested she is in assessing Dr. Blasey’s story. She said she worked behind the scenes last weekend to ensure negotiations between Republicans and the accuser’s lawyers did not fall apart because of an “arbitrary timeline.” She canceled a meeting of the Senate committee she chairs on Thursday to ensure her schedule was clear.
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Once again we have failed at our jobs. We need to get better candidates in place at the primary level of the House and the Senate or pay the price. The price as we see is simply too steep.
We are now faced with two bimbettes,collins,murkowski who may have the power to derail the best scotus candidate ever. Someone who is a role model for every citizen in the country who has lived an exemplary life,nothing ever to be ashamed of, but will be subject to the whims of some deranged rinette who is more dem than Republican and can't tell the difference between right and wrong.
We must do better or keep paying the price.
It's not rocket science either. Just pick out a good solid Republican candidate who has what it takes, fund him,support him/her and destroy the rest on both sides.The bottom line we must do what it takes just like the hard left does with communist candidates.
Her family had a repossession, their home. Judge K's mother was the acting Judge of the repossession court. I'm not sure if she is adding 1+1=accuse.— Timothy Leblanc (@Timothy29690149) September 25, 2018
Not this time. If she votes against Trump's nominee she will be stabbing him in the back. I see Trump supporting her primary opponent and she is history!
Mitch says that he has the votes. They could just bypass the Judiciary Committee. And how the hell did the Judiciary Committee gets stacked with so many rinos? That is just wrong.
This is soviet-style justice, that you are guilty before being proven innocent. Pretty ironic that it’s how the commies on the left are running it.
This needs to be brought up at her hearing.
The Hill how getting antsy about FL27, where My Shalala is running against a cute Hispanic TV news anchor. This was a DemoKKKrat “gimme,” now Salazar is leading.
I don’t see (in theory) how Ds can win the House if they don’t win this district and NY19, where Faso already was leading and now actress Diane Neal has entered the race on the “Workers Party” ticket, sure to siphon off #s from the Ds.
OH guys and TX guys now think all 5 of the seats in those two states are safe, and MN guys are convinced we get a minimum of 2 flips in the House there. I guess there’s still a way for the Ds to get control of the House, but truly it is going to involve absolutely running the table on every single tossup seat.
If it is true. Not everyone that tweets is honest. I doubt that Fakebook would want to cooperate and expose her white-washed past profile IF it paints her in a negative light and proves she is nothing but apolitical opportunistic liar.
OTOH, if her prior online history revealed that she was truly a victim of the event she stated had happened, she would likely had left it up as evidence of her truthfulness.
As it stands with her accusations, there is nothing but verbal hearsay that predates Judge BK’s nomination made this year.
Donna Shalala was BOOed for two minutes when her name was announced as her face was shown on the Jumbo-tron at the U. Of Maimi Hurricane game last week. (Note the ‘Bill’s Willy” comment in the final #.)
From Florida Politics- by PETER SCHORSCH
January 23, 2018.
Donna Shalala for Congress? Thanks, but no thanks
Donna Shalala ....
Shalala, the former University of Miami President, Bill Clinton HHS secretary and head of the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 campaign, is being touted as a potential game-changer and field clearer in what has thus far been a crowded and fluid (and impressive) Democratic field.
To that, I say: Meh.
Shalala certainly has some things going in her favor that could give her the veneer of “800 lbs. gorilla”-status in Florida’s 27th — ....— but there’s an extremely strong case to be made for why she shouldn’t run, and why she might actually lose if she does.
First, ... Her name I.D. is likely near-universal in the wealthy, coastal 27th District that includes UM, where she reigned for over a decade and still holds major sway; one must assume her fundraising capabilities are gargantuan; and she’s an obscenely accomplished woman — in a Democratic primary electorate that’s nearly 60 percent female — in what virtually everyone has agreed is the #YearOfTheWoman.
But peel off a layer of the Shalala onion and (surprise, surprise!) it stinks — starting with her tenure at UM.
Shalala left “The U” in 2015 to all manner of acclaim and reverence, but her nearly 15-year term was marked by a number of scandals that will surely be relitigated in an electoral fight.
The big one, of course, is the case of Nevin Shapiro.
Shapiro, now sitting in prison for his role in a $900 million Ponzi scheme, spent most of the aughts as an active booster of the UM basketball team, and major donor to the University. And by “active booster,” I mean he bought hookers (among other things) for student-athletes. Shalala weathered the controversy, despite calls for her resignation at the time, but bet on this to dog a congressional run — and bet on previously unreported details to emerge.
She also went to war with organized labor at “The U,” not an insignificant player in a Democratic primary. In 2006, UM janitors went on, not just a strike, but a hunger strike to protest their low wages and lack of health care. At the time, their wages ranked 194th of 195 in a national survey of what universities paid their cleaning crews. At the time, Shalala was living in a nearly 10,000 square foot UM-owned mansion in tawny Coral Gables, while driving not one, but two UM-leased luxury vehicles.
Oh, and when she finally caved on wages she still refused to offer health care to those workers. That seems like a winner on every level in a liberal, Democratic primary, no?
Perhaps most salient at this particular moment in time is Shalala’s record on-campus rape, assault and where she might fit into the current #MeToo zeitgeist. That record is decidedly mixed — even before you add in her pre- and post-UM fealty to former President Clinton. Much has been made recently of the conflicted, sidelined position that Hillary Clinton has had to take with respect to #MeToo, despite the fact that her defeat to Donald Trump was arguably the catalyst for the whole deal.
Shalala will undeniably have to face tough questions on the issue as a loyal Clintonite, but their toughness will be compounded by her own mixed record on harassment and assault as a university president*, which includes controversies with both assault victims and accusers (separately), accusations of sweeping workplace harassment under the rug, a far too cozy relationship with the Coral Gables police chief that recently retired in semi-disgrace, and of course, her complicity/blind eye when it came to Shapiro supplying hookers to the UM basketball team....[snip]
But her Clinton problem extends beyond Bill’s Willy — and may be the most compelling argument against her running in the first place. Voters — Democrats, Republicans, NPAs — are sick of the Clintons. “Clinton Fatigue” has been a diagnosable electoral ailment since at least 1999. It arguably cost Al Gore the 2000 election.... It arguably cost Hillary the 2008 and 2016 elections. And I don’t think you can argue, at this point, that voters are just done with these people.
What is further, unarguable, the fact is that Donna Shalala is one of “these people.”.... [snip]
Flake just had a presser where he prepared the body politick for his Yes vote.
If Flake and Collins are a yes, MurCOWmunist is optional.
I’m praying Yertle’s right on this one...
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