Brett Kavanaugh Is Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee: Live Updates

[Anthony60]

You are talking about a man who spends many hours a day watching TV and on others playing golf. So spare me the excuses.

LOL. that's your response? So, it's time for the DOJ to change it's interpretation of the Constitution because you think he watches a lot of TV. That's a classic!

 

[haymarket]

LOL. that's your response? So, it's time for the DOJ to change it's interpretation of the Constitution because you think he watches a lot of TV. That's a classic!

My statement spoke directly to the claim that Trump has not the time to defend himself. He obviously does when one looks at all the "executive time" he spends watching Fox each day or golfing getting in free commercial advertising time for his properties.

 

[Conservative]

My guess is that you are a very, angry individual. Your posts (like this one) are scatter shots aimed at some imagined Liberal. It must bring you some relief from your frustrations because you surely fail to debate in good faith with actual real people who have their own individual thoughts and opinions. F.Y.I, Dems/ liberals/ progressives, libertarians do not have uniform opinions. My real name is Laurie. I am a real person. I don't visit D.P. very often anymore because there are too many people, like you, who lace every post with contempt for the other. Maybe that is the Trump affect. It might do you good to spend some more time with the likes of Sam Harris & his podcasts- people who DO debate rationally and in good faith.

You would be wrong as you don't see me complaining about what someone else earns or pays in taxes. You don't see me promoting class warfare and envy but you do see me celebrating the success of the economic numbers being generated.

Laurie, nice to meet you, no stop listening and do some research, Read the Constitution, research bea.gov, bls.gov, and treasury.org. take an economics class to learn the components of GDP and what percentage they contribute. Debating rationally doesn't mean debating with the heart but rather using official data to make your point and prove the rhetoric correct. The left is marketing hatred and it is selling to far too many people. You listen to what someone says and ignores the results being generated. All that does is promote hate and true ignorance of the actual results.

 

[Anthony60]

My statement spoke directly to the claim that Trump has not the time to defend himself. He obviously does when one looks at all the "executive time" he spends watching Fox each day or golfing getting in free commercial advertising time for his properties.

I'll just spell it out for you. ALL Presidents are way too busy to effectively do their job while having to fend off indictments, period.

But, you think that Trump is an exception to the rule. What is your source showing that he watches so much TV that he could use that time to defend himself and still get done all that he is doing?

 

[haymarket]

I'll just spell it out for you. ALL Presidents are way too busy to effectively do their job while having to fend off indictments, period.

But, you think that Trump is an exception to the rule. What is your source showing that he watches so much TV that he could use that time to defend himself and still get done all that he is doing?

That is clearly NOT true as Trumps own schedule and time allocation clearly shows with the amount he spends both golfing and watching FOX each day. Cut that out and he has lots and lots and lots of time.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/trump-tv-viewing-analysis/index.html

Trump's schedule has "executive time" allotted several times a week -- time in which he watches TV, taped and live, and tweets. Trump's Twitter feed -- today and almost every day -- reflects how seriously he takes that time. His feed regularly features supportive quotes he hears while watching TV.
"People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back," wrote The New York Times in December.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html?_r=0

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ches-at-least-four-hours-of-tv-per-day-report

President Trump spends at least four hours a day watching television, according to a new report.

People close to Trump told The New York Times that Trump spends at least that much time in front of a TV each day, and sometimes spends as many as eight hours watching television.

The Times reports that Trump begins each day around 5:30 a.m. by turning on CNN before quickly flipping to Fox News's "Fox & Friends." He occasionally watches MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” because it works him up, Trump’s friends told the Times.


Trump’s favorite programs include "Fox & Friends" as well as Fox News primetime shows from Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro. Trump sometimes “hate-watches” CNN host Don Lemon, according to the report.

You are most welcome. :2wave:

 

[Anthony60]

That is clearly NOT true as Trumps own schedule and time allocation clearly shows with the amount he spends both golfing and watching FOX each day. Cut that out and he has lots and lots and lots of time.

You are most welcome.

So, you are doubling down on foolishness. Nothing new.

 

[haymarket]

So, you are doubling down on foolishness. Nothing new.

The only one doing that is you with one post after another. You asked for evidence - I provided it and you then ignored it in favor of a cheap personal attack.

You are proving yourself with every post and that is not a good thing.

 

[Jack Hays]

That is clearly NOT true as Trumps own schedule and time allocation clearly shows with the amount he spends both golfing and watching FOX each day. Cut that out and he has lots and lots and lots of time.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/trump-tv-viewing-analysis/index.html



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html?_r=0

Trump watches up to eight hours of TV per day: report | TheHill



You are most welcome. :2wave:

My paternal grandfather was once asked who was his favorite President. Without hesitation he replied: Calvin Coolidge. When his surprised interlocutor asked him to explain his unusual choice, my grandpa answered that Calvin Coolidge took a two-hour nap every day. So for two hours each day, grandpa continued, Calvin Coolidge did nothing to harm our country. He then concluded that the same could not be said for any other President. Game, set and match to grandpa.

 

[Anthony60]

The only one doing that is you with one post after another. You asked for evidence - I provided it and you then ignored it in favor of a cheap personal attack.

You are proving yourself with every post and that is not a good thing.

You provided no evidence that it is okay to indict just this one President because he has so much time on his hands that he is the only President that can be indicted without it affecting him in doing his job.

 

[haymarket]

My paternal grandfather was once asked who was his favorite President. Without hesitation he replied: Calvin Coolidge. When his surprised interlocutor asked him to explain his unusual choice, my grandpa answered that Calvin Coolidge took a two-hour nap every day. So for two hours each day, grandpa continued, Calvin Coolidge did nothing to harm our country. He then concluded that the same could not be said for any other President. Game, set and match to grandpa.

Great story.

 

[haymarket]

You provided no evidence that it is okay to indict just this one President because he has so much time on his hands that he is the only President that can be indicted without it affecting him in doing his job.

He is the one under discussion and he is the only relevant one when you claim he does not have the time which he clearly does by the evidence I presented.

Would you object to Trump being indicted and his trial postponed until after his term ended?

 

[polgara]

My paternal grandfather was once asked who was his favorite President. Without hesitation he replied: Calvin Coolidge. When his surprised interlocutor asked him to explain his unusual choice, my grandpa answered that Calvin Coolidge took a two-hour nap every day. So for two hours each day, grandpa continued, Calvin Coolidge did nothing to harm our country. He then concluded that the same could not be said for any other President. Game, set and match to grandpa.

Greetings, Jack. :2wave:

:thumbs: :lamo :rock

 

[Jack Hays]

Greetings, Jack. :2wave:

:thumbs: :lamo :rock:

Greetings, Polgara.:2wave:

Grandpa was a wise man.

 

[Anthony60]

He is the one under discussion and he is the only relevant one when you claim he does not have the time.

All you are proving, as did the hearing the other day with Strzok, is that the left is so locked in on their dogma, that they don't even have the integrity or guts to agree when someone is blatantly biased and down right wrong. Defend the ideology at all cost, even when they don't realize they are actually harming it.

They wanted to give him a Purple Heart. What an absolutely disgusting and offensive remark.

You have proved my point, over and over in this thread.

 

[Anthony60]

My paternal grandfather was once asked who was his favorite President. Without hesitation he replied: Calvin Coolidge. When his surprised interlocutor asked him to explain his unusual choice, my grandpa answered that Calvin Coolidge took a two-hour nap every day. So for two hours each day, grandpa continued, Calvin Coolidge did nothing to harm our country. He then concluded that the same could not be said for any other President. Game, set and match to grandpa.

That's why I didn't complain about Obama playing golf or basketball. The nation was spared at those times.

 

[haymarket]

All you are proving, as did the hearing the other day with Strzok, is that the left is so locked in on their dogma, that they don't even have the integrity or guts to agree when someone is blatantly biased and down right wrong. Defend the ideology at all cost, even when they don't realize they are actually harming it.

They wanted to give him a Purple Heart. What an absolutely disgusting and offensive remark.

You have proved my point, over and over in this thread.

I agree that the Purple Heart remark was stupid and insensitive. As I type those words I take out the container that holds the Purple Heart my father won, along with many other medals from World War II and the one that means the most to be - a thick cardboard paper dog tag with two punch holes in it that says STALAG VII A and then has a hand written six digit number on it. The Germans gave it to my dad on the first day he was placed in a Gestapo run prison camp in 1944. What makes it additionally interesting is that four of the six numerical digits are also my birth date.

I agree that Strzok showed his own political opinions and his own hatred of Trump in his email exchanges.

I see no evidence of any kind that his own personal political opinions had any impact on the performance of his professional duties.

Can you provide some examples of that?

 

[Cassandra]

That's why I didn't complain about Obama playing golf or basketball. The nation was spared at those times.

Trump does not perform the usual work of a President. You should be aware of that by now. He spends most of his time insulting our Allies, glad handing our foes, tweeting, perpetually campaigning, lashing out at personal enemies and golfing. He relies on other people to do policy work, he is misinformed on most topics, Congressional Repubs have given up expecting him to consistently support legislation because he constantly changes his mind and then blames others for his ineffectiveness. Since he is not a lawyer, I don't believe he spends significant time "defending himself" but I really hope that it does not turn out that in the U.S., Presidents are above the law. That will be a truly sad day.

 

[Anthony60]

Trump does not perform the usual work of a President. You should be aware of that by now. He spends most of his time insulting our Allies... blah, blah, blah

Oh, please. No reason to read any further. What a load of crap. Save it for the low information types. Don’t try and pedal that garbage on me.



Sent from my iPhone XXX using None of your damn business.

 

[cuban smokes]

I'm not so sure he will do that. He has already said that he would not go against settled law.

he was nominated by a serial liar; something about that you don't get?

 

[Waddy]

It’s an excellent choice — though the coming wave of fear-mongering may hide that fact for a while.

Judge Kavanaugh, 53, is widely seen as one of the top legal minds of his generation — so much so that now-Justice Elena Kagan recruited him to teach at Harvard Law, where students across the spectrum rave about him. Though firmly committed to interpreting the Constitution as written, he’s no ideologue — which is why Sen. Ted Cruz and other hard-rightists had been urging Trump to pick someone else.

But now Democrats will proceed with their preset strategy for fighting any Trump picks — charging that confirmation guarantees the end of Roe v. Wade and ObamaCare.

Which is nonsense: Chief Justice John Roberts, who’s set to be the new swing vote on the court, has already joined the four liberal justices to save ObamaCare once, and all indications are that he’s unwilling to reverse Roe or any other precedent more than four decades old. (For that matter, the only justice who clearly favors junking Roe is Clarence Thomas.).

https://nypost.com/2018/07/09/brett-kavanaugh-is-an-excellent-pick-for-the-supreme-court/

 

[Anthony60]

I agree that the Purple Heart remark was stupid and insensitive. As I type those words I take out the container that holds the Purple Heart my father won, along with many other medals from World War II and the one that means the most to be - a thick cardboard paper dog tag with two punch holes in it that says STALAG VII A and then has a hand written six digit number on it. The Germans gave it to my dad on the first day he was placed in a Gestapo run prison camp in 1944. What makes it additionally interesting is that four of the six numerical digits are also my birth date.

I agree that Strzok showed his own political opinions and his own hatred of Trump in his email exchanges.

I see no evidence of any kind that his own personal political opinions had any impact on the performance of his professional duties.

Can you provide some examples of that?

My grandfather was injured in WWI, I remember him soaking/treating his leg, he passed when I was 6, so that's about all I recall. So, it certainly is offensive to say Strzok deserves a Purple Heart for being asked some tough questions.

Strzok clearly hates Trump, and supports Hillary. Not only that, but he felt no need to keep it to himself. Boy, if I was under investigation by this guy, and he was texting and emailing about how much he hates me, and loves my opponent, I'd have some serious questions as to how the hell he was allowed to do this, and why they allowed a guy like that to get anywhere near the investigation. I'd want answers from his superiors.

 

[Cassandra]

Oh, please. No reason to read any further. What a load of crap. Save it for the low information types. Don’t try and pedal that garbage on me.




Sent from my iPhone XXX using None of your damn business.

It is all well documented.
Getting back to the thread topic, it is also understood that he surrounds himself with sycophants. Kavanaugh demonstrated that trait in his speech.

 

[haymarket]

My grandfather was injured in WWI, I remember him soaking/treating his leg, he passed when I was 6, so that's about all I recall. So, it certainly is offensive to say Strzok deserves a Purple Heart for being asked some tough questions.

Strzok clearly hates Trump, and supports Hillary. Not only that, but he felt no need to keep it to himself. Boy, if I was under investigation by this guy, and he was texting and emailing about how much he hates me, and loves my opponent, I'd have some serious questions as to how the hell he was allowed to do this, and why they allowed a guy like that to get anywhere near the investigation. I'd want answers from his superiors.

The law and the Constitution supports the right to have political opinions and express them to others.

Sorry to hear about your grandfather and his wounds. We are a better nation and world for that service and personal sacrifice and I am sure you feel the same way.

 

[Plus Ultra]

With John McCain absent through illness and Democrats promising all-out opposition to a pick that could tilt the court to the conservatives for a generation, public attention has focused on three Democrats facing re-election in Republican states and two moderate GOP senators. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are considered possible opponents of Kavanaugh, based on his position on abortion rights.

Horse trading begins:

Immediately after Trump nominated Kavanaugh, Rand Paul, who often positions himself as a civil liberties champion, released a statement in which he pledged to review the judge’s record and keep an “open mind”. On Sunday, he drew attention to a 2015 opinion regarding NSA actions in which Kavanaugh wrote that “sometimes the special needs of law enforcement outweighs the intrusion on individual liberty”. “I’m undecided but I’m trying weigh this from the perspective of a Clinton nominee vs a Trump nominee,” Paul said. “I am worried though, and perhaps disappointed, that Kavanaugh will cancel out Gorsuch’s vote on the fourth amendment.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...supreme-court-pick/ar-AAA738x?ocid=spartandhp

Two of those three Democrats campaigning for re-election are Manchin and Donelly:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had some choice words for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on his efforts to unify Democrats against President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Manchin told Politico on Friday that Schumer has no power over support for Kavanaugh’s nomination. “I’ll be 71-years-old in August; you’re going to whip me? Kiss my you know what,” Manchin, referring to Schumer’s efforts to whip up the votes against Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, told Politico in an interview.

Shortly after Trump announced Kavanaugh as his pick for the Supreme Court, Schumer released a statement saying, “I will oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have” and urged his Democrat colleagues to do the same.

Senate Democrats would need at least two Republican votes to block Trump’s Supreme Court pick, but some Democrats are still undecided about whether to oppose Kavanaugh without fully reviewing his credentials.

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), cited the need to balance supporting their party and ensuring their chances at re-election. Both Manchin and Donnelly are up for re-election in the 2018 midterms. “My decision won’t have anything to do with Chuck Schumer,” Donnelly told Politico. https://www.breitbart.com/big-gover...-kiss-my-you-know-what-on-supreme-court-vote/

Its nice to hear these Senators taking such principled positions, then again one wouldn't expect them to flatly say they were concerned over their re-election.

 

[Anthony60]

It is all well documented.
Getting back to the thread topic, it is also understood that he surrounds himself with sycophants. Kavanaugh demonstrated that trait in his speech.

"It is understood"? By who, exactly? Kavanaugh has thus far only demonstrated that he is well qualified to be on the SC, not like Obama's appointees.