Posted on 09/30/2018 4:29:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Thanks for the updates on the Fords....
Hope its not true on Kavanaugh
Gillum runs against Desantis.
My mistake, should have known that. In any case Desantis and Scott all the way
So trannies didn't?
I think it's coming. A resounding, devastating, smashing rejection of dem tactics will send the message; no partisan obstruction or you're out.... and powerless, btw, until you cut the crap. They won't have the courts to rely upon for very much longer.
The latest meme put forth by George Stephanapoulous at This Weak is recusal by Kav for all cases involving democrats. That's rather open ended, isn't it.
She-RAT baby-killers all.
Nah. They have earned his wrath.
Truth is we don’t know what happened. Absent witnesses on a 35 year old event that has been undoubtedly “heavily redacted” to put it politley are low.
Yes, I do believe God is hearing us, and sent Donald Trump, an imperfect man to be sure, to be His instrument.
Otherwise, Donald Trump is the luckiest person alive!
There’s just no way that a majority of Americans, and not just whites, believe this country isn’t special, is an global oppressor, a racist country, full of bigots and haters, settled by land-stealers and Indian killers, and all the bizarre to common myths the Left believe.
I do believe MOST Americans love their country, their people, and believe it is still, as Reagan said, a “Shining City on a Hill” (original quote by John Winthrop).
They day most Americans don’t believe this anymore is a good day to die.
May Lindsay Graham step up like this past week and become the leader the Republicans need.
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I hope Lindsey rips that fraud Stephanopoulos for his hypocrisy about “believing women.” He didn’t believe the women that Billy Jeff Blythe assaulted. POS!
I’m reading a book about Watergate.
I remember the era of Watergate, my first interest in politics.
Watergate was an action JUST LIKE THIS KAVANAUGH thing but they won!
Nixon didn’t do anything wrong. But Nixon, like Repubs since the beginning of time, let the Dems control it all.
THIS TIME I don’t think the liberals will get away with it.
Everytime a woman is on the air and starts crying 50 other women think "oh how terrible" without having any first hand info on any of the circumstances.
It was desgined by pros who do this crap all the time.
Think Orlando, Vegas,Charlottesville,Sandy Hook,911,on and on it goes.We keep getting played by the best.
Her polygraph proves nothing. It consisted of two questions. It was conducted improperly because she just had to attest that her statement was true. A real polygraph would have drilled down to specific questions on what happened. She took the polygraph on August 7 outside BWI airport. Her Dem lawyers suggested by Feinstein paid for it.
.More likely she's a "show me the money" type of operative,with the ability to be anyone she needs to be.
Her two GoFundMe pages now total close to one million dollars. Close to 12,000 people have sent her money. Who knows what other payments have been made. She is getting pro bono legal services. So where is the money going to be spent? Someone should ask her if she will donate it to abused women organizations.
So far, Flake, Collins, and Murkowski are working with the Dems to delay and destroy. And Romney chimed in that he agreed that further FBI investigation was needed.
In today's environment you are forced to think like that and if you don't inevitably you pay a price.
Further, I'm on the edge of my seat to hear the response from Flake, Murkowski, Collins, Manchin, etc. when the dems demand more time beyond this 1 week , limited FBI review.
We've backed their butts to the edge of the cliff....they have 1 more chance in many minds, and in imho. (and that's only because we're done with Flake for good in 90 days....unless you consider his next employer CNN or MSNBC relevant)
So my granddaughter just called me.
She is, folks, very much active in ROTC in high school.
She now wears fatigues, the leaders really like her, she goes in three days a week at 6am to work out. She’s been to Quantico twice now.
A MARINE!!!
She wants to be a marine!
Anyway, now she is looking at colleges and she says, to my shocked self, “I want to go to Berkley.”
I went into a spasm, telling her that dimwit bulbs go to Berkley, that soon California will be a big island off of our Pacific coast.
She launches into some kind of rant that she will never get involved with politics.
She’s 15.
She’s beautiful.
She’s going to be a marine after graduating from Berkley.
And my church wants her to play Mary in the upcoming Christmas play.
Excellent!
The transcript of Sarah Sanders interview by Chris WallAss today:
“Fox News Sunday.”
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It’s great to be with you, Chris. Thanks for having me.
WALLACE: Let’s pick up on this report overnight. Has the White House limited in any way who the FBI may talk to and specifically, has the FBI been given a list of potential people to talk to but does not include Julie Swetnick, the woman, the third accuser who talked about gang rapes and also college friends who may contradict Judge Kavanaugh on the issue of heavy drinking?
SANDERS: No, the White House is not micromanaging this process. This is — the Senate is dictating the terms. They laid out the request and we’ve opened it up. And as you heard the president say, do what you need to do, the FBI, this is what they do and we are out of the way and letting them do exactly that.
WALLACE: But to be specific, did the White House counsel give the FBI a list?
SANDERS: Not that I’m aware of. The White House counsel has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is.
Again, the White House isn’t intervening. We’re not micromanaging this process. This is something — it’s a Senate process. It has been from the beginning. And we’re letting the Senate continue to dictate what the terms look like.
WALLACE: So, do you know if either the Senate or the White House is saying, don’t interview Julie Swetnick?
SANDERS: That’s a question you’d have to ask the Senate. That’s not something that, again, the White House is engaging in.
WALLACE: But the White House is in charge of telling the FBI —
SANDERS: That we’re open to the investigation and we’ve asked that they do that.
Look, at the end of the day, the FBI is going to go through this process, they’re going to do interviews. They don’t come to the conclusion, that still something the Senate has to do. They’re going to go and they’re going to provide information and the Senate is going to have to make a determination to either vote for Brett Kavanaugh or not.
This can’t become a fishing expedition like the Democrats would like to see it be. Look, I think you have to go back to the very beginning of day one of when President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh. From that very first moment before any of these allegations were brought up, Democrats said they were not going to support him, they weren’t going to vote for him and they were going to do everything within their power to fight him.
We’ve seen that play out over the last couple of months. They’ve been absolutely disgraceful in the way they’ve handled this process, in the way they’ve exploited both Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford. I think we cannot allow the people that have acted in bad faith to determine and allow this to become a total fishing expedition by the FBI.
The Senate is going to lay out, Senate Republicans are going to lay out and dictate those terms and we look forward to this wrapping up so we can see what was seen in the last six investigations that Judge Kavanaugh has been a part of.
WALLACE: I want to pick up on this question because President Trump said yesterday as he was leaving the White House the FBI investigation, his words, could be a blessing in disguise.
But here was the tweet that he put out on Thursday after the hearing: Democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful in this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct and resist. The Senate must vote.
Does the president think the Democrats’ demand for this extended FBI probe is part of what he has called a big fat con job and that Republican senators like Flake, like Collins, like Murkowski fell for the Democratic sham?
SANDERS: I don’t know that he think he’s individual spell for the sham. He knows those people want to see this process play out. I think of people that have been bad actors in this, as the president laid out in his tweet, are the Democrats.
Look, Dianne Feinstein and her staff knew about these accusations. They could have done all of this in a private way to protect Dr. Ford. Instead, for the people that claim to champion women, Democrats have exploited Dr. Ford, they have exploited this process and I think it’s been totally disgraceful and I don’t think anyone has hit the nail on the head better than Lindsey Graham did in Thursday’s hearing.
WALLACE: So why did Jeff Flake go along with it?
SANDERS: That’s a question you’d have to ask Jeff Flake. But at the end of the day, we want this process to be completed and we want Brett Kavanaugh to be able to take the bench and to be a Supreme Court justice without the cloud over his head and if that allows us to do that, then by all means, let’s get this done this week.
But the Senate has to make a decision and a determination and they have to vote based on the information that they have.
WALLACE: Here’s what the president said after the hearing about Christine Blasey Ford’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I thought her testimony was very compelling and she looked like a very fine woman to me. Very fine woman. Certainly, she was a very credible witness. She was very good in many respects.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: What did the president find compelling and credible about Dr. Ford’s testimony?
SANDERS: Well, I think certainly anybody who watch that can ignore the fact that it evoked some emotion, that this isn’t about emotion, it’s about facts and the facts all in on Brett Kavanaugh side, certainly all of the information that came through that hearing, there was no corroboration that nobody could deny that her testimony wasn’t compelling, that it wasn’t impactful and certainly, it appears something happened to this woman and I don’t think there’s anybody in America who would condone that or be OK with that.
I do think the big question is, was that Brett Kavanaugh? And I think based on his testimony and the information he provided, you can easily come away and say it wasn’t.
WALLACE: Well, I want to pick up on that. You’re not only the White House press secretary. I don’t have to tell you, you’re a woman.
How did her testimony affect you personally and how do you explain it that she could be that compelling, that believable, and that you think she’s that wrong?
SANDERS: Well, again, I think her testimony was compelling, but there was no fact-based information that supported the accusation. Equally compelling, if not more so, was Brett Kavanaugh.
And I — you pointed out I’m a woman, I’m also a mom. I have a daughter and I have two sons and I think it’s a very, very dangerous place in a very dangerous road for America to go down to simply take an accusation and make it facts. We have to look at the information provided based on what we know. I think Brett Kavanaugh was very compelling, very credible that he had a lot of corroboration to backup his side of the story and I think that’s equally as important, that you have to take that into account as well.
WALLACE: Let’s take a look at some of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony this week.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD, KAVANAUGH ACCUSER: I believe he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, D-VT, SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: What is the strongest memory you have? The strongest memory of the incident?
FORD: Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two and they’re having fun at my expense.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: How does the president who has called her not only compelling, but credible, how does he explain that she could be so credible and so specific in putting Kavanaugh and his best — one of his best friends, Mark Judge, in that room and be wrong about it? You say you think something happened, not necessarily with Kavanaugh. I mean, is it just mistaken — how does he explain it?
SANDERS: Look, I don’t think anyone of us can know 100 percent, but I think we have to look at the information that’s provided. There’s no doubt that her story is heartbreaking and it’s heart wrenching to watch it. I’ve watched it a number of times.
Again, I think you have to look at Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony as well. Equally heartbreaking. Look at the destruction of his family, look at how this is played out. The biggest thing that I think is so disgraceful and so disgusting is the way that the Democrats have allowed this process to play out and allowed both of these individuals to be so beaten down, so destroyed by frankly the media, who have played a big role in this.
Not to say they shouldn’t report it, but they’re putting so much information and so much pressure on these two individuals that I think this all could have been avoided had Dianne Feinstein and her team done this behind closed doors, not done this in such a public setting. That was what Dr. Ford asked for. She wanted this to be done in a private way and it wasn’t, and it could have been and a lot of this could have been avoided, and the pain and the suffering that she’s had to relive and that Judge Kavanaugh is having to experience, all could have been avoided.
WALLACE: Before the hearing, the day before the hearing, President Trump said that his mind was open and if he heard information that, in fact, Kavanaugh had committed sexual assault, he was open to withdrawing his nomination. Does he stand by that?
If the FBI were to find something over the course of this week that contradicts Kavanaugh’s testimony, will he pull the nomination?
SANDERS: I’m not going to get ahead of what the FBI may or may not find. I can totally with the information that we have up until this point and look back at the president’s comments that he made last night. Judge Kavanaugh is an incredible individual of great intellect, great temperament. And I think you can’t just erase everything about what happened over the last week.
This is a person who has had peers and colleagues from the time he was a small kid until today, come out and talk about who he is, the type of character he has. He’s been through six different FBI investigations.
Look, I’ve been through one of those. They are very thorough. It’s not like they sit down with one person and call it a day.
WALLACE: No, but I’m just asking specifically, he said on Wednesday before the hearing he has an open mind and he would listen to the facts. Will he listen to the facts of the FBI investigation?
SANDERS: I think he certainly will listen to the facts. But again remember, six of them have been done. We’ll see —
WALLACE: But they weren’t about this.
SANDERS: We’ll see if anything new — but they are about everything. They don’t look at one thing. They look at everything. A standard FBI investigation goes into the depths of all parts of —
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: But you were saying if something new come — comes out?
SANDERS: Certainly, we don’t expect that to happen at all. I think we’re pretty confident given that we’ve been through this process a number of times, but we would assess that at that point.
WALLACE: OK. There’s other news in Washington and I want to get to it briefly. Let’s do my version of a lightning round.
When will the president and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein sit down this week? And is the only issue on the table whether or not Rosenstein did in fact talk about wanting to wire himself to the president or invoke the 25th Amendment? Is that the only issue? Will he keep his job if the president is satisfied that that’s not true?
SANDERS: I wouldn’t be surprise if other topics come up. I’m not going to get ahead of the president’s conversation with the deputy attorney general.
A date for that hasn’t been set. It could be this week. I could see it pushing back another week given all of the things that are going on with the Supreme Court, but we’ll see. And certainly always like to give the press updated on those.
WALLACE: Thank you.
The president signed a spending bill on Friday that funds the Department of Homeland Security only until December 7th after the midterms and it provides no new money for building the wall. If the Congress does not pass by December 7th when that funding runs out, at least $5 billion more for the wall, which is what the House wants, will the president shut down the government?
SANDERS: We’ll have to wait and see what happens. But the president is committed to making sure we build a wall and getting the funding for it. And if I know anything about Donald Trump, he ultimately will get what he’s fighting for and that will be the wall.
WALLACE: Finally, this takes me back to my days in the White House briefing back in ‘80s with Larry Speaks —
SANDERS: You’re welcome back anytime.
(LAUGHTER)
WALLACE: No, six years was enough, I still get PTSD about it.
We are happy to have you here, but you have not had a formal White House press room briefing since September 10th, which will be three weeks ago tomorrow. Are you thinking — there have been reports — are you thinking of ending the formal briefings or perhaps taking them off camera because you believe the White House reporters, especially White House TV reporters grandstand?
SANDERS: Certainly, I won’t disagree with the fact that they grandstand but that’s not why —
WALLACE: I’m not saying it.
(LAUGHTER)
SANDERS: I think — I don’t think you have to. I think it’s pretty widely known that it happens.
Look, we talked to the press and a number of different ways. The day that the briefing was initially created, the atmosphere was incredibly different and you didn’t have the same access and ways to communicate with the American public.
Look, the president does more short Q&A sessions than any president has prior to him. We looked at those numbers.
WALLACE: So, we’re running out of time. Are you saying that the White House briefing, the formal White House press briefing on camera is —
SANDERS: We’re going to continue to do that, but I always think if you can hear directly from the president and the press has a chance to ask the president of the United States questions directly, that’s infinitely better than talking to me. We try to do that a lot and you’ve seen us do that a lot over the last three weeks, and that’s going to take the place of a press briefing when you can talk to the president of the United States.
WALLACE: Well, you know that since he’s become president, he hasn’t talked to me.
SANDERS: We’ll work on that. I’ll put in a good word for you and I’ll see if we can make that happen.
WALLACE: Despite this interview.
SANDERS: Despite this interview.
WALLACE: Sarah, thank you. Thanks for coming in today and we will try to stay on top of all the fast-moving developments this week. Thank you.
SANDERS: Absolutely. Thanks, Chris.
Well...we had dinner Friday in a restaurant where two women behind us were discussing politics, saying how “disgusted Kavanaugh’s wife looked like she was with HIM, and other things. I was so incensed that as we left I got up and walking right by them said, fairly loudly, “Make America Great Again”...WE CANNOT LET Idiot women THINK THEY ARE the MAJORITY! (Course my husband was not happy with me...it’s his small hometown).
If only Fox News would get rid of Wallace. He’s such a hypocritical, phony snake.
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