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This left the news cycle eh?


Dems must have given up already.


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Seriously though... my favorite part was the Democrat Senator begging Kavanah to withdraw his own nomination. I loved hearing the whimper and desperation in his voice.


He's so in.
 
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I like the one where the Dem Senator from Cal. edited the Kavanaugh quote on birth control as form of abortion.

Kamala Harris, Planned Parenthood slammed for taking Kavanaugh out of context on birth control remarks

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Planned Parenthood have come under fire after accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of describing contraceptives as “abortion-inducing drugs” -- when he was only summarizing the position of a pro-life group.
The flashpoint came on Thursday when Kavanaugh was asked at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing about a case he ruled on that involved Priests for Life, who were challenging Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate that the group said violated their religious beliefs.
"That was a group that was being forced to provide certain kind of health coverage over their religious objection to their employees. And under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise? And it seemed to me quite clearly it was," Kavanaugh told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control. He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman’s constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake - this is about punishing women.
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Walter said:
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-dianne-feinstein/
Dems pulling an Anita Hill on Kavanaugh. Apparently it’s about some broad that knew Kavanaugh in high school. Too funny.
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Anonymous, I wonder how much this info cost the Dems. to produce a victim?

Feinstein has released a statement Thursday afternoon acknowledging the existence of the letter. “I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities,” she said.
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Anonymous, I wonder how much this info cost the Dems. to produce a victim?
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One NICE thing about the clinton deth list is that it brings the price of cooperation down to manageable levels.
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When you can produce Mina arkensized piles of dope, testimonies are a dime a dozen!
 
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Anita Hill Weighs In On Kavanaugh: It's Still 'Incredibly Difficult' For Accusers

Twenty-seven years ago, Anita Hill became one of the first women to publicly accuse a powerful Supreme Court nominee of sexual harassment, shifting the public eye toward the poor treatment of women in the workplace.
On Friday, Hill spoke out again in the wake of accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University, called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the sexual assault claims in a “fair and neutral way.”
“The reluctance of someone to come forward demonstrates that even in the #MeToo era, it remains incredibly difficult to report harassment, abuse or assault by people in power,” Hill said in a statement.
The New Yorker on Friday reported the bombshell allegation of a woman who said that Kavanaugh held her down and “attempted to force himself on her” in the presence of a classmate of his while at a party in high school.
The woman’s identity was not released to the public and Kavanaugh has denied the accusation. The classmate told The New Yorker he has “no recollection” of the incident.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee should put in place a process that enables anyone with a complaint of this nature to be heard,” Hill said in her statement. “I have seen firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser, and no one should have to endure that again.”
When Hill testified against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991 ― accusing him of making unwanted advances and talking to her about sex and pornography ― she launched a movement that for the first time highlighted the kind of harassment and abuse women regularly faced in the workplace.
A lot changed for women in the decades that followed, with a crescendo in the recent Me Too movement, which toppled some of the most powerful men accused of harassment or abuse across industries, including entertainment, media and politics.
And while, as Hill recently said, there has been “a tremendous amount of change” in the treatment of women, a lot has stayed the same ― especially with the way accusations are handled.
As HuffPost’s Amanda Terkel pointed out, Feinstein knew of the accusations against Kavanaugh in July, and rumors about their existence swirled on Capitol Hill, but Feinstein didn’t publicly acknowledge them until August.
She was reluctant to bring the issue up because she thought Democrats would be better off focusing on “legal, rather than personal, issues in their questioning of Kavanaugh,” sources told The New Yorker.
Feinstein said Thursday that she received a letter with the accusations and forwarded it to the FBI.
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In the middle of the hit piece is the actual news wow talk about trying to bury it
 
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These charges of sexual impropriety in High School for Kavanaugh.. some 36 or 37 years ago seems to fit into a pattern of slandering conservative justices with sexual innuendo. The supposed events were never reported to police, or parents, or school authorities.

In fact they never seem to have been mentioned to anyone prior to Kavanaugh's nomination by an accuser who refuses to name herself or subject her story to any scrutiny or provide any objective evidence of its validity. It's all a product of an unrevisited memory fragment of decades ago when she was likely under the influence of alcohol. Both supposed culprits have denied the event which means there is no place for this to go. It's a total non event.

My problems with Kavanaugh have to do with his deep entanglement with Bush Whitehouse.

The most troubling aspect of Kavanaugh imho is his tenure as Bush Admin. legal advisor. He has been seeped in the NeoCon brew. That means an amoral pragmatism in pursuit of murky global economic agendas. GW Bush and company will be remembered for The Patriot Act, Iraq, WMDs, Abu Ghraib, torture, Gitmo, military tribunals, derivatives, mortgage and financial dereg, concentration of capital in Investment Banks, financial collapse and BAILOUTS and Dick Cheney. It was a fiasco and failure and it all had legal implications.

Now Kavanaugh seem to me to be a solid guy in faith, family and community. He's also a guy form the cloister of affluence, preps, Ivy League, the Whitehouse hermitage, academia, judiciary. He's never as far as i can see been out in the real world where people get beaten up and destroyed. In that way he comes from the crust that Bush chose from and from which he was a member himself. It produced a cesspool of moral ambivalence. It was incompetent, sketchy and cruel in execution.

Can he rise above.. sure!. But he's 53 and people of that age don't change direction of a dime since they are never forced into any kind of epiphany. That should involve a clear separation from the Bush maxim that corporations are first amongst equals of 'citizens'.

IF, however, he is instrumental in overturning Roe v Wade all will be forgiven.
 
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These charges of sexual impropriety in High School for Kavanaugh.. some 36 or 37 years ago seems to fit into a pattern of slandering conservative justices with sexual innuendo. The supposed events were never reported to police, or parents, or school authorities.

In fact they never seem to have been mentioned to anyone prior to Kavanaugh's nomination by an accuser who refuses to name herself or subject her story to any scrutiny or provide any objective evidence of its validity. It's all a product of an unrevisited memory fragment of decades ago when she was likely under the influence of alcohol. Both supposed culprits have denied the event which means there is no place for this to go. It's a total non event.

My problems with Kavanaugh have to do with his deep entanglement with Bush Whitehouse.

The most troubling aspect of Kavanaugh imho is his tenure as Bush Admin. legal advisor. He has been seeped in the NeoCon brew. That means an amoral pragmatism in pursuit of murky global economic agendas. GW Bush and company will be remembered for The Patriot Act, Iraq, WMDs, Abu Ghraib, torture, Gitmo, military tribunals, derivatives, mortgage and financial dereg, concentration of capital in Investment Banks, financial collapse and BAILOUTS and Dick Cheney. It was a fiasco and failure and it all had legal implications.

Now Kavanaugh seem to me to be a solid guy in faith, family and community. He's also a guy form the cloister of affluence, preps, Ivy League, the Whitehouse hermitage, academia, judiciary. He's never as far as i can see been out in the real world where people get beaten up and destroyed. In that way he comes from the crust that Bush chose from and from which he was a member himself. It produced a cesspool of moral ambivalence. It was incompetent, sketchy and cruel in execution.

Can he rise above.. sure!. But he's 53 and people of that age don't change direction of a dime since they are never forced into any kind of epiphany. That should involve a clear separation from the Bush maxim that corporations are first amongst equals of 'citizens'.

IF, however, he is instrumental in overturning Roe v Wade all will be forgiven.
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Yeah right, because Al Franken, Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were definitely right wing. Looks memory is rather selective.
 
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