Posted on 09/28/2018 11:08:24 AM PDT by conservativepoet
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination on Friday after Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) secured a deal to delay a floor vote on the nomination for a week.
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I didn’t say Trump didn’t say some positive things about Ford, I said he hadn’t withdrawn his support for Kavanaugh - which he hasn’t. Trump is trying to appear statesmanlike. He’s got to keep in mind the wobbly RINOS in the Senate. Kavanaugh needs their votes if he is going to be confirmed. And those RINOS sure don’t want to be bullied by Trump......
Seeing Sessions, me thinks Alabama Republican party is pretty pathetic at picking their candidates.
Manchin and Heitkamp.
The other Red State Dems have likely figured out that voting for Kavanaugh hurts them more.
Manchin and Heitkamp could be the only two where a vote against Kavanaugh hurts them more than helps them.
They support Kavanaugh and win re-election.
Of the two, maybe Manchin changes parties after winning? Remember after the 94 GOP blowout, how some Dems switched parties?
Could be the same for these two.
Pure conjecture on my part, although I think those two have more to lose by voting against Kavanaugh.
Just fax them the standard questionnaires asking about detailed dates, times, certifiable documents and names addresses and phone numbers of corroborating Witnesses who are willing to take an oath on their claims. Tell them to have it back by Monday 5 p.m. for a 5:15 vote. With the millions of dollars going into this clown show I’m sure they can get a few young interns to show them how to submit attachments to email and get it done this weekend. After that the FBI can pull out the 6 interviews I’ve already done and say we are confident that there is not enough evidence to pursue this political matter any further. Which they’ve already done once.
Sorry, but at 80 years of age, not too much longer. Thank God!!!
I thought Heitkamp was already on record as a no.
I'd say devious and remorseless. The seem to strive for Pyrrhic victories.
-PJ
How long will it take to get Ford to agree to an interview with the FBI?
Exactly. Even easier. The FBI could just state that the information in Ford’s accusation was reviewed (her letter was already in the background record for Kavanaugh since early Sep is my understanding).
They add in Ford’s testimony not knowing details and add that in and then state, “there’s no there, there - nothing further to investigate.”
FBI investigation done and it is done before within the normal debate time window.
Close debate on Monday, confirm on Tuesday.
Done and done.
IMO, doesn’t seem quite fair to K for her to get interviewed now by the FBI. Her lawyers have had time to hear what he had to say and make notes. They could re-work her “memories” to line up more with what he said.
That will make her a liar at the hearing then.
Why has nothing said been about FORD’S best friend, who was too “ILL” to testify at the committee hearing?
That’s what he’s doing...he’s judgement proof in the Senate, like a guy on the last week of his job before retiring. Screw you I’ll do whatever I want to.
After all this, We, the People, will send a very red wave to the polls. How about on Nov. 7 we call a meeting to ask if they want the vote that day or wait until January.
Moore was a horrid candidate; had Luther Strange been nominated, we’d be at 52.
You know what I would do. I ask for an FBI investigation of Ford and Feinstein since they brought no evidence. Call it a Fraud investigation.
I don't remember what you said in the balance of your post. You said you weren't seeing where Trump praised Ford, and I told you that the audio clip was being aired on talk radio and news outlets.
Exactly... we only get ONE shot to get this right. Better to trade a relatively few days for three votes.
Levine had it correct yesterday.
If testimony is uncorroborated, then it lacks a major criterion for credibility or by definition, might labeled INcredible.
If the testimony is corroborated, then it might become credible.
Somebody needs to make sure Trump understands the legal distinction between CREDIBLE and INCREDIBLE.
POTUS used the terms in a colloquial sense, stating Ford’s testimony was credible and Kavanaugh’s response was INCREDIBLE.
I suspect he meant that as a complement, not realizing it actually implies Kavanaugh was unable to corroborate his response, while Ford was corroborated.
The opposite was actually true. Ford was unable to glean corroboration, while Kavanaugh was able to corroborate his past. Perhaps more directly, Kavanaugh offered tools for all the below elements, while Ford failed on most meaning hers was not credible.
It should also be pointed out, that had ANY of the Democrats on the Committee actually given any sincere care about Ford, they would have pointed these things out from their past training in the law, not to mention their forming the law.
Since few if any are doing so, it manifests the Congress is more about power than about the discernment of what whould be in the nation’s laws.
CREDIBLE Testimony
5 tests
First tool: Corroboration:
Contemporaneous Evidence not dependent upon human recollection;
Independent Direct Evidence not involving human interaction;
The second tool: Inherent Believability
The third tool: Internal Consistency / Reliability of other parts of the evidence
The fourth tool: Clouded Recollection
The fifth tool: Demeanour
Kavanaugh produced corroboration from high school witnesses and attendees of the supposed parties where Kavanaugh might have been present, from his diaries he maintained documented evidence, the schedules he maintained were inherently believable for the rigorous tasks he was performing and later FBI background checks showed no indication of such criminal behavior, even as far back in high school.
Ford was Incredible. Kavanaugh was Credible.
Kavanaugh was also Fabulous. Ford, not so much.
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