Posted on 10/02/2018 5:46:03 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on Senate Republicans and the White House to allow the FBI to follow the facts where they lead and hold off on scheduling a vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court until Congress and the American people learn what the FBI uncovers. In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin also called out Republicans who have been calling Dr. Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh a “smear,” or a calculated and orchestrated political hit.
“I believe Dr. Ford, and I believe what she told us. And that’s why I’m troubled to hear [Republican] senators come to the floor today and say, ‘Well, you know, we feel that she was mistreated.’ Some of the same senators, including the Majority Leader, who have said that, came to the floor on three successive days last week and dismissed her complaint as a ‘smear,’” Durbin said. “Even before she had testified, even before they had seen her under oath say what she did, they dismissed this as a ‘smear.’ I don’t think that’s an indication of respect for Dr. Ford to have said that on the floor of the Senate. And I think that she deserves more, as anyone would who is willing to testify under oath.”
Durbin continued, “I hope that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have not declared where they are and how they’ll vote on the Kavanaugh nomination will wait until the FBI investigation is complete, review their findings, and reflect on the very basic question – is Brett Kavanaugh the right person at this moment in history to be given a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land?”
Video of Durbin’s remarks on the Senate Floor are available here.
Audio of Durbin’s remarks on the Senate Floor are available here.
Last week, Durbin announced his opposition to Judge Kavanaugh. In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Judge Kavanaugh repeatedly refused to call for an independent FBI investigation, in stark contrast to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Ms. Deborah Ramirez, and Ms. Julie Swetnick, who have all asked for a FBI investigation of their serious allegations of sexual assault.
In last week’s hearing, Durbin also asked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, “Dr. Ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe Brett Kavanaugh assaulted you?” Dr. Blasey Ford responded, “One hundred percent.”
Last week, following the release of a sworn declaration from Julie Swetnick detailing new allegations of sexual assault by Judge Kavanaugh, Durbin called for Senate Republicans and the White House to either immediately call for the FBI to conduct an investigation into the multiple allegations of sexual assault by Judge Kavanaugh or withdraw his nomination.
There is always someone who didn’t get the memo.
Little Dickie Durbin, talk to ChiSpi DiFi - that FBI report is radioactive to Dems, its Kryptonite.
Get a new line.
It'll be a nice bookend for Little Dick's "no" votes on Rapin Bill's perjury and obstruction charges.
Little Dick doesn't believe Juanita Broaddrick...
Durbin has no acquaintance with facts.
Too late. Started when the Ford letter went public.
Turban Durbin: I demand the FBI follow the facts as I and my party create them.
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'So let me get this straight. Sen. Feinstein has a Chinese Spy working on her staff for decades & Debbie Wasserman Schultz hires a Pakistani intelligence agent who hacks the House of Representatives computers and we are talking about whether Kavanaugh had too many beers in college?'
Does he want Hillary in jail?
Rat translation: Give us the time to create the crime!
Sorry Little Dick. There aren’t no facts in this mess.
Four governors, 32 aldermen, since 1972, wonder of wonders, no mayors, convicted...
He actually thinks he's immune. Here are some of the more memorable:
Rod Blagojevich — Governor from 2003 through 2009,
George Ryan — Governor from 1999 through 2003.
U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds
Dan Walker — Governor from 1973-1977.
Otto Kerner — Governor from 1961-1968.
William G. Stratton — Governor from 1953-1961.
Lennington Small — Governor from 1921-1929.
Joel Matteson — Governor from 1853-1857.
Secretary of State Paul Powell —
Auditor Orville Hodge —
Attorney General William Scott —
Get it right, Scott. It’s ffffffF off. :-)
We need an investigation of Durbin!
Translation: “The FBI should do what we tell them and find what we tell them and say what we tell them just like we’re used to the FBI doing for the last half century.”
- Durbin.
I know you are not kidding. I grew up across the river in North St. Louis County and heard about some kids in my high school who would squirt black people with a water gun as they drove by them. At least they weren’t smacking them with a stick, but it was still shameful behavior.
Turbin actually did run for office in 1982 from the downstate 20th congressional district, which extended to Alton, and he served as Congressman from that district until 1994. It bordered the district where he grew up. I was always so glad he was across the river from me and not my representative. The reason he did not run for office in the district where he grew up is because Melvin Price had been the Democrat representative from that district for 10 years, and it would have been political suicide to run against him.
Speaking of Alton, are you aware that there is an image of a prehistoric “Piasa” bird painted on the bluffs just north of Alton?
The people of Illinois should send Senators than aren’t morons.
The FBI we currently has will never investigate Democrats.
If they have to they will give them a Hillary-type investigation.
Sen. Feinstein has a Chinese Spy working on her staff for decades & Debbie Wasserman Schultz hires a Pakistani intelligence agent who hacks the House of Representatives computers
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Amazing what you can get away with when you have the Ministry of Propaganda and the FBI on your side.
If he wanted to follow facts he should have more eat senators elections have consequences and I am afraid this is going to have consequences til 2050
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