[NR] So now it looks like next Thursday. But it could be Christmas.
On Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s manifestly meritorious nomination to the Supreme Court, what was supposed to be the vote out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this past Thursday now appears to be sliding into a hearing to be held next Thursday. Or, who knows, maybe a Thursday or two after that. Or maybe The First of Never ‐ though even that would undoubtedly be postponed to The Twelfth of Never.
Delay, delay, delay. It is what the Democrats want and it is what the Democrats are getting. They took the measure of their opposition and figured the GOP would bring a knife to a gunfight. From the first day of the confirmation hearing, committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) ceded control of the proceedings to the minority ‐ in particular, to its ever-harder-Left, mak show presidential primary contestants.
It’s a kangaroo court.
Understand, this is not about Christine Blasey Ford. She’s a tool ‐ a quite willing tool, but a tool all the same. This is not even about the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Brett Kavanaugh ‐ it would be no different regardless of which nominee President Trump selected in consultation with White House counsel Don McGahn, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest of the originalist, conservative legal community come of age. Democrats do not want a model of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint elevated to the Supreme Court. End of story.
And who can blame them? Republicans did not want the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Merrick Garland to be elevated to the Supreme Court.
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#3
The way they ignore Garlands politics like it doesn't matter, while pointing out the politics of the Judiciary Com is so tone deaf a Steamroller could crush them, and they wouldn't see it until they're half-flat.
Posted by: Charles ||
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[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.
Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulged classified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.
Mr. Rosenstein was just two weeks into his job. He had begun overseeing the Russia investigation and played a key role in the president’s dismissal of Mr. Comey by writing a memo critical of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But Mr. Rosenstein was caught off guard when Mr. Trump cited the memo in the firing, and he began telling people that he feared he had been used.
Mr. Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Mr. Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials. Several people described the episodes, insisting on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials, including Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting bureau director, that documented Mr. Rosenstein’s actions and comments.
#1
Two things are going to happen when this is over. For some, I will have your heads and for others, You may tender your resignations and place them in my Leather Briefcase right there. Bit Mind you, Do not leave town. We may want to talk to you. Also hand in your CAC Cards and Passports to the Front desk before you leave.
#2
Timely. You can read hundreds of articles in the feminist literature about how saying "I was just joking" is no defense.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/22/2018 8:44 Comments ||
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#3
Sedition is no joke.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
09/22/2018 11:09 Comments ||
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#4
So how is the unredacted release of classified documents coming along, Rod? The American public wants to know.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/22/2018 12:13 Comments ||
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#5
NYT + McCabe = Bull$hit.
The time is not yet right to dispose of Mr. Rosenstein, imo.
Posted by: Spons Smiter of the Leprechauns9666 ||
09/22/2018 13:24 Comments ||
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#6
This past year has seen a number of stories in the MFM which were clearly engineered to goad Trump into firing Mueller. Trump hasn't taken the bait, so now its Rosenstein. As Levin noted, just like Comey, a fired Rod R. would suddenly become the left's BFF and it's Watergate II till doomsday.
#8
Who to believe. MFM or Rod. I am going with Rod here, as the Slimes is the Slimes. Completely untrustworthy. Not that I feel all warm and fuzzy with anyone in the DOJ at this time.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
09/22/2018 17:11 Comments ||
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#9
It seems that as time goes on, many of the top tier of DOJ/FBI have been neutralized (fired, reassigned, referred for prosecution, resigned).
h/t Instapundit
Seventy-five women with long-standing associations with Judge Brett Kavanaugh came forward on Friday to voice their defense of the embattled Supreme Court nominee. Kavanaugh is accused of committing sexual assault while in high school 36 years ago.
Sharing intimate stories from their personal and professional lives, the women painted a portrait of Kavanaugh greatly differing from that being promoted by Democrats and the media. IMO, the accusations are simply an act of feminazi terrorism. There is Islamic terrorism where Muzzies kill people using whatever means available. And there is feminazi terrorism using false accusations. Continued on Page 47
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/22/2018 8:36 Comments ||
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#3
This works out well. Sotomayor, Kagan and Notorious RGB can't ever side with Kavanaugh. They are backed in a corner of their own making.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/22/2018 8:54 Comments ||
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#4
Any of 'em gonna vote for his confirmation?
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/22/2018 9:55 Comments ||
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#5
It is all over. Brett should remove himself from the hearings and walk away. There is no way he will ever get the nomination, its over. Every scenario I can imagine he ends up disgraced and out. She gets to testify, makes the accusation. He says he did not do it. The dems call on the FBI to investigate, they have an on the record sexual assault accusation. What she will do is stand up and name a dozen classmates as witnesses. Then what will congress do? Not let them testify? A miscarriage of justice. The mob rule and the hypocrite Feinstein have won. Trump needs to pick a radical right judge to replace him as the nomination. He needs to place him when congress is out of session. Fuck the greasy democrats. Brett was a moderate, lets put in a radical. I'm done with them...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
09/22/2018 14:51 Comments ||
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#6
If Kavanaugh walks away, it's the end of deplorables' revolution.
#8
Pan - I totally disagree. She was put up to this. Nobody else corroborates. Full speed ahead and f*ck her and her lying DNC mouthpieces. You give in on this, and it;s GAME OVER for any competent originalist justices. Fight them tooth and nail
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/22/2018 17:31 Comments ||
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Frank, I'm not giving up. I just don't see a way for them to get it done by 1 OCT. I agree this is a stunt that she was put up to. There will be no procedural way to get this done before the mid terms. Judge Kavanaugh is the perfect pick. He is as moderate and honest as they come.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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#10
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" James Glasgow Farragut
#11
Full speed ahead and f*ck her and her lying DNC mouthpieces. You give in on this, and it;s GAME OVER for any competent originalist justices. Fight them tooth and nail
I wish to associate myself with the comments of the gentlemen in #8. Only with more bile and spittle.
Hey, what if we hold the vote and *then* hold the hearing. That way we can take care of the adult stuff first and then play Mean Girls. If the accusation is credible, we can always impeach him. Gosh, I'm like Solomon!
#14
Sadly, this fine man is ruined for no reason but the viletactics of personal annihilation by Democrats who have no moral compass but power. The farce and circus to come in this and the midterms are likely to be laughable and heartbreaking. Grassley just failed us at a pivotal moment in the history of the Republic. Calculated compromise is merely cowardice cloaked in self delusion. Fools...
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[NR] So now it looks like next Thursday.
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.
