Posted on 10/09/2018 4:18:09 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Why can't we (MA) have a U.S senator like Susan Collins?
Why can't our guys make a speech like that?
After all, this is intellectual, sophisticated and progressive Massachusetts, not backwoods Maine.
And Collins is from Caribou, of all places, not Cambridge. She is the descendant of lumberjacks, not professors.
Instead we have one senator who has been in Washington so long that he lives there, not here. That is Sen. Eddie Markey of Chevy Chase, Maryland, who cannot put two sentences together unless they are written out for him.
He called the FBI investigation into the unsubstantiated charges of teenage sexual abuse lodged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh "a cover-up." He knows about cover-ups. His 42-year career in Congress has been nothing but one long cover-up.
The other is a blow-in from Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She called the investigation "a complete sham."
If anyone should know something about shams it is Warren. Her career is based on the sham of being descended from Native Americans, namely the Cherokee Nation. If she's Cherokee, I'm Sioux.
Both are Democrats, of course.
And both were vehemently opposed to President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court from the beginning, and both, following the party line, voted against confirmation on Saturday.
You know that neither Markey nor Warren could articulate their position against Kavanaugh the way Collins did in favor of it in her compelling speech on Friday. Instead they went along with the shrieking hate mob that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, unleashed upon the country in a scorched-earth effort to defeat Kavanaugh. In the end it was Schumer and the Democrats who got scorched.
Yet, Kavanaugh and his family were scorched as well. Kavanaugh may sit on the court, but he will sit under a dark cloud of vicious smears that will follow him for the rest of his life.
How do you come back from totally unsubstantiated and scurrilous Democrat charges of teenage sexual abuse, gang rape and drunkenness that Markey and Warren bought into? You don't.
It is one thing that the Democrats set out to defeat Kavanaugh. It is another that they sought to destroy him as well. They did not beat him, they just beat him up. His life will never be the same, court or no court.
Which brings us back to Collins and her 16-page, 45-minute masterful speech in which she had to remind Democrats that in the face of the unsubstantiated accusations against you, in the United States you are innocent until proven guilty -- and not the other way around.
"In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be," she said.
And, in the face of the hysterical anti-Kavanaugh mobs whipped up by the Democrats to intimidate pro-Kavanaugh senators, Collins said, "We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy."
Collins, a moderate Republican, said she had in mind the totally unproven allegation that when Kavanaugh was a teenager he "drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape.
"This outlandish allegation was put forth without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others. That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness."
While Collins found Christine Blasey Ford's testimony to be "sincere, painful and compelling," she added that it could not be corroborated by anyone, even anyone that Ford said was at the party where the alleged sexual abuse took place.
She said she was disturbed over the suggestion that unless Kavanaugh's nomination was rejected, "the Senate is somehow condoning sexual assault. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every person -- man or woman -- who makes a charge of sexual assault deserves to be heard and treated with respect.
"But today we have come to the conclusion of a confirmation process that has become so dysfunctional it looks more like a caricature of a gutter-level political campaign than a solemn occasion."
And, thanks to Schumer and the Democrats, that is what it became.
Democrats unleashed a frightening wave of hate against Kavanaugh and the senators who voted for him.
There was a time in this country when politicians and people of different political philosophies treated one another with dignity and respect.
Those days are gone. But remember, what goes around comes around.
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I don’t know about the DNA but that would not be an acceptable solution to me. Many, many people have Native American DNA, that does not make them legally Native American.
In order to claim to be Native American in order to use any benefit, including preference for government contracts one has to be enrolled in a tribe. She needs to show she is enrolled as a member of the Cherokee tribe, that is easy enough to prove. She either is or isn’t; which at this point we all know she is not. So she has no business claiming she is Cherokee. Her new story is she has Cherokee ancestry, which is different than claiming to be a Cherokee.
Tons of people including me can claim Cherokee ancestry, I have an ancestor on the final Rolls, many just have family stories. Neither one is enough to be able to honestly use it for any gain, including educational, or political. To rightfully claim you are Cherokee you need to be enrolled as a tribal member.
If she has not lied on government documents she has likely done nothing wrong legally in spouting off about being a Cherokee. To me she has used it to further her political ambitions so morally that is very wrong. Goes straight to her honesty, means she is outright dishonest.
The problem is since when have the dims cared about morals or honesty when it comes to a dim candidate?
You can bet your bippy if she was a Republican she would have been slashed to pieces when she first used the claim to gain employment or better standing or whatever with the University. There would have been no political future for her, but if she had used it politically then she would have been destroyed for even a mention of NA ancestry if she could not prove it- even if she had not claimed outright to BE a Cherokee.
It is not for anyone else to prove she is or is not Cherokee, legally she is not since she is not a tribal member. She made the claim, she needs to prove it. She has not so far been able/willing to even show Cherokee ancestry, and has only claimed “family stories” to fall back on. That is your answer.
We can agree to disagree I guess.
She’s probably already done a DNA test, the result may be the reason for the silence on the subject.
To be considered to be a “Native Hawaiian” you need 50% Hawaiian blood.
I wonder what the Cherokees demand for proof.
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Collins stood pretty shakily on principle, but at least she was standing in the end.
Graham was great. (I never thought I'd write that.)
LOL! Funny thing is, my 2nd great grandfather actually left a wagon train and joined the Sioux tribe, so I can make that claim.
Note: The Omaha World-Herald newspaper is reporting that over 100 folks were lined up in Council Bluffs, Iowa waiting for the Trump Political rally this evening at 9:30 AM this morning. The number of folks waiting has changed from 100+ to hundreds at 11:00 AM now assembled. It should be a Blockbuster Trump rally!!!
ROTFL!!!
Yup,lived in Newton from the age of 1 to 25.Certainly a *very* nice place to grow up...but today when I drive by the Whole Foods at Four Corners I become ill seeing all the Volvo and BMW SUVs in the parking lot.I think you know what I mean,
A daughter is leaving ——(kids graduated and moved on)——disgusted with the new mayor.
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Cherokee tribe does not count blood or even lineage unless you can PROVE direct relation to someone on the Dawes Roll, also known as the final Roll. If you could somehow prove you were a Cherokee if you cannot prove/document that you are directly related to someone on that Roll and become enrolled in the tribe you are not considered a Cherokee, not legally in any way. Other tribes have their own determination but it is cut and dried with the Cherokee.
https://www.cherokee.org/Portals/0/Documents/2012/8/31660Application_Instructions.pdf
Thanks——VERY interesting.
For the Eastern Band of Cherokee it is the Baker Roll that is relied on. I seem to recall she claims the Oklahoma Cherokee as her heritage but this is for the Eastern Band.
I just had to google who the Mayor of Newton is and I happened to get a website that featured her photo.The first thing that came to mind was "boy,I'll bet she's fun at parties"....not that I'm any kind of male model myself! And knowing what Newton has become I'll bet she'll soon be sponsoring Hugo Chavez Month in Newton
That statement was funny...
That statement was funny...
“Except that the speech she gave was probably written for her and not be her staff, but by a conglomeration of the repub majority.”
Following the Dems are we? making an assumption without any valid reason or support and for what purpose. What are you trying to say? That Collins really isn’t smart?
If Gillum wins the election, I’d be moving out - Maybe back to Connecticut, if Bob Stefanowski wins...
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