rumitoid

Did Judge's book have such a disclaimer? Please show it. He weirdly boasted that he was knock down, black-out drinker for many years. Not remembering the scene with Kavanaugh fits his drinking pattern. Judge said his book was fact. His life.

rumitoid

This is what staggers me. I am still naive in a way about politics. That his gross and unseemly testimony before the Committee should have been more than enough to find a new nominee but did not, had great shock value for my belief in the system.

rumitoid

The terms "discipline" and "well-structured" can have a myriad of meanings. Loving, as you stated, is central, but the way of discipline and well-structured is about love, not behavior.

rumitoid

Tell me what you would do, after complaining how devastating were the charges to your family and you subject your family to open hearings on those charges? For what purpose? To spare them more embarrassment and possible harm, in plain view of the cameras, it seems they should have stayed at home, even if they wanted to show their support for him.

rumitoid

The poor are often real victims in our system, dependent on over-burdened Public Defenders. They will make deals for the innocent to plead guilty because a proper defense was not possible. "Hey, instead of 20 years you do five with time off for good behavior. Just two and a half years. It's your best choice."

rumitoid

Funny, that was my same conclusion.

rumitoid

Why does she have "$1 million (donated) dollars to pay for security"?

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

In our judicial system the police always arrest on the perception of guilt.
It is then up to the system to see if there enough evidence to charge the person of a crime.
It is the between a prosecutor the defendant an a judge with a jury if demanded.

When it comes to appointing some one to a position of trust.
The only real difference is it is brought about on the presumption of the morals involved.

The term used most often is vetting.

I would advise you to take care in how you raise attention on this issue.
Messing with the Judical system can have undesired results long term.

Idaho

Because there is a gofundme crowdfunding was started to pay for her security and had already accumulated over $1 million by the day of her testimony.

Of course, it would be interesting to track the source of all those funds.

Singularity

Mine! Find mine! I wanna see!

But first the tax returns for Trump, Trump Family and Businesses.

Idaho

The children were not there for the senate hearings, the wife was. If my man were essentially 'on trial' for a crime he did not commit, as part of a partisan smear campaign, wild horses would not have kept me from being anywhere but at his side.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Perhaps you would like to donate to her.... follow this link, it has links to her go fund me accounts. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-tuesday-christine-blasey-ford-gofundme-1002-story.html I suppose she thought that she would need extra security....

Idaho

It would not have mattered which name from Trump's shortlist was selected. The CIA/Deep State/Dems had an operative lined up for each of them. The details might have differed but the playbook was the same.

The playbook in this case is about smearing the thing the victim holds most dear - as a means of making them give up. In K's case, he respects women and is highly respected by them - so that formed the basis of the smear. For another candidate, it might have been something different. But the fundamental for the play is to try to devastate the victim by attacking a hard held principle.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

A huge historical event just happened. America achieved the first conservative dominated Supreme Court in 50 years.

Republicans better figure out how important this was, and v**e in the November e******ns to block Democrat impeachment attempts.

This article by Pat Buchanan hits on many important points and should be shared by all conservatives.

Casualty Lists From the Kavanaugh Battle
By Patrick J. Buchanan
https://lewrockwell.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ad24f4cd1574f1f7b8a0a03a&id=d1a77574cc&e=ac767b1a94

After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court seems secure for constitutionalism — perhaps for decades.

The shrieks from the gallery of the Senate chamber as the v**e came in on Saturday, and the sight of that bawling mob clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court as the new justice took his oath, confirm it.

The Democratic Party has sustained a historic defeat.

And the triumph is President Trump’s.

To unite the party whose nomination he had won, Donald Trump pledged to select his high court nominees from lists prepared by such judicial conservatives as the Federalist Society. He kept his word and, in the battle for Kavanaugh, he led from the front, even mocking the credibility of the primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.


Trump has achieved what every GOP president has hoped to do since the summer of ’68, when a small group of GOP senators, led by Bob Griffin of Michigan, frustrated and then foiled a LBJ-Earl Warren plot to elevate LBJ crony Abe Fortas to chief justice in order to keep a future President Nixon from naming Warren’s successor.

Sharing the honors with Trump is Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Throughout 2016, McConnell took heat for refusing to hold a hearing on Barack Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, to fill the chair of Justice Antonin Scalia, who had died earlier that year.

In 2017, McConnell used Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” to end filibusters for Supreme Court nominations, and then got Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed 54-45.

Last week, in one of the closest and most brutal court battles in Senate history, McConnell kept his troops united, losing only Sen. Lisa Murkowski, to put Kavanaugh on the court by 50-48. McConnell will enter the history books as the Senate architect of the recapture of the Supreme Court for constitutionalism.

This was a huge victory for conservatism and for the Republican Party. And the presence on the court of octogenarian liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by Bill Clinton, suggests that McConnell may have an opportunity to ensure the endurance of his great achievement.


The ferocity and ugliness of the attacks on Kavanaugh united Republicans to stand as one against what a savage Senate minority was trying to do to k**l the nomination. And at battle’s end, the GOP is more energized than it has been all year for this fall’s e******n.

How united is the GOP? Conservatives are hailing the contributions of Sens. Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins, who delivered a masterful summation of the Kavanaugh case Saturday afternoon.

For the Democratic Party, the Kavanaugh battle was the Little Bighorn, as seen from General Custer’s point of view.

Unable to derail the judge during the regular confirmation process, they lay in the weeds until it was over, and then sandbagged the judge by leaking to The Washington Post a confidential letter Dr. Ford did not want released.

They thus forced a public hearing of charges of attempted rape against a nominee, demanded the FBI investigate all charges of sexual misconduct when Kavanaugh was a teenager, and ended up losing anyway.

Then the Dems watched protesters dishonor the Senate in which they serve by screaming from the gallery. It was among the lowest moments in the modern history of the Senate, and it was the Democratic minority that took it down to that depth.

Understandably, they are a bitter lot today.


And the #MeToo movement has been set back. For many of its champions were, in Kavanaugh’s case, demanding a suspension of the principle of “innocent until proven guilty,” and calling for the judge’s rejection in disgrace, based solely on their belief in a wholly uncorroborated 36-year-old story.

So where are we going now?

While Republicans are united and celebrating a great victory, the left and its media auxiliary are seething with rage and doubly determined to deliver payback in the e******ns four weeks away, where Democrats could pick up the two dozen seats needed to recapture the House.

Should they do so, however, they will face two years of frustration and failure. For the enactment of any major element of their liberal agenda — a $15 minimum wage, “Medicare-for-all” — would die in a Republican Senate, or in the Oval Office where it would face an inevitable veto by Trump.

So, what does 2019 look like, if Democrats capture the House?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A House Judiciary Committee headed by New York’s Jerrold Nadler who is already howling for impeachment hearings on both Kavanaugh and Trump.

And, by spring, a host of p**********l candidates, none of whom looks terribly formidable, led by Cory (“I am Spartacus”) Booker, trooping through Iowa and New Hampshire, trashing President Trump (and each other), and offering themselves as the answer to America’s problems.

Bring it on!

Singularity

I saw the two little daughters there, at the hearings, first day.

I understand the ceremonies at the swearing in. I am and have been asking about the HEARING meetings that went on for days.