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Andrew McCarthy: "Grassley’s Kangaroo Court"

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I agree with McCarthy that the Kavanaugh hearing has become a circus, that the Left is trying to turn SCOTUS into an "über-legislature or imposing on the country the social-justice-warrior policy agenda that they cannot ride to victory at the ballot box, "and that the question now isn't whether it's fair but, rather, whether it will work. Harkening back to Garland days when there were "civilized limits on behavior," McCarthy says:

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.

The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side. Now Democrats are out to prove that if you abuse the process until it becomes a circus, the rules don’t matter. The steroid effect of their media echo chamber can overcome any thin, fraidy-scared GOP majority.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...grassley-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman/
 
This is why Trump is railroading Kavanaugh into a position on SCOTUS:

https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-opinions-on-impeachment-and-indictment-2018-7

Trump's Supreme Court pick has expressed doubts about investigating or prosecuting a sitting president


Brett Kavanaugh, who President Donald Trump nominated to replace the retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, previously contributed to a 1998 report that made a case for President Bill Clinton's impeachment.

This experience has shaped Kavanaugh's belief that presidents should not be indicted or distracted by investigations while in office.
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Trump knows that he faces some tough times ahead as a result of the Mueller probe. He needs Kavanaugh on SCOTUS as his firewall against being impeached. Not complicated.
 
The OP is straight out of Reversi World.

The Right is hiding Kavanaugh's paper trail, knowing it would kill the nomination. They even lied about the documents they did release, saying they were committee confidential when they were not.

They know they are going to lose big this election, and their woes at the ballot box could be just beginning. They want to use the SC to try and stifle democracy.

Merrick Garland got all the attention, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. They held up as many appellate nominations they could so they could pack the courts with kooks.

Call this disgusting is an understatement. The only bright spot is that if Kavanaugh as much of an asshole as I think he is, he could still be impeached.
 
nota bene said:
I agree with McCarthy that the Kavanaugh hearing has become a circus, that the Left is trying to turn SCOTUS into an "über-legislature or imposing on the country the social-justice-warrior policy agenda that they cannot ride to victory at the ballot box, "and that the question now isn't whether it's fair but, rather, whether it will work. Harkening back to Garland days when there were "civilized limits on behavior," McCarthy says:

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.

The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side. Now Democrats are out to prove that if you abuse the process until it becomes a circus, the rules don’t matter. The steroid effect of their media echo chamber can overcome any thin, fraidy-scared GOP majority.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...grassley-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman/
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The above bolded is essentially the Bonkers Train to Crazytown. Not surprised you believe that.
 
Grassley's being a chump for letting Democrats trash his hearing and trash normal process in such hearings and due process procedure. By chickening out on his own ultimatum, he's only made matters worse for all involved.
 
nota bene said:
I agree with McCarthy that the Kavanaugh hearing has become a circus, that the Left is trying to turn SCOTUS into an "über-legislature or imposing on the country the social-justice-warrior policy agenda that they cannot ride to victory at the ballot box, "and that the question now isn't whether it's fair but, rather, whether it will work. Harkening back to Garland days when there were "civilized limits on behavior," McCarthy says:

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.

The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side. Now Democrats are out to prove that if you abuse the process until it becomes a circus, the rules don’t matter. The steroid effect of their media echo chamber can overcome any thin, fraidy-scared GOP majority.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...grassley-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman/
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Take a guess ... think they'll be anyone replying with any actual on-point counter arguments?
It's still early but so far nuh-uh. I suspect there'll be a lot of stayaways.
 
late said:
The OP is straight out of Reversi World.

The Right is hiding Kavanaugh's paper trail, knowing it would kill the nomination. They even lied about the documents they did release, saying they were committee confidential when they were not.

They know they are going to lose big this election, and their woes at the ballot box could be just beginning. They want to use the SC to try and stifle democracy.

Merrick Garland got all the attention, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. They held up as many appellate nominations they could so they could pack the courts with kooks.

Call this disgusting is an understatement. The only bright spot is that if Kavanaugh as much of an asshole as I think he is, he could still be impeached.
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I've always thought that Obama's biggest mistake was not having Biden and Reid march into the Senate chamber during a pro forma session of Oct. 2016 and make a point of order that a quorum wasn't present. The Republicans weren't going to be able to get a quorum when almost half of them were running for re-election.... and if they couldn't muster one for 10 days or so, the road would have been clear for Obama to have given Judge Garland and every other judicial nominee that was being obstructed a recess appointment. He could have had a mass swearing-in in the East Room of the White House.

If he had shown some Trumanesque fighting spirit like that, it may well have changed the outcome of the election... at the very least it would have gotten Garland onto the Supreme Court for at least a year.
 
nota bene said:
The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side.
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You must be joking.
It was never about the rules.

Not only was it about Mitch McConnell socking it to the black man in the White House, it later became about Republicans not ever allowing Hillary to seat a nominee to the court if SHE WAS ELECTED, so at that point Democrats decided that if that was how the Republicans wanted to play it, then they shouldn't whine and cry when the shoe gets put on the other foot.

Why Republicans Won’t Let Clinton Appoint a Supreme Court Justice If She Wins

Cruz suggests leaving Supreme Court seat vacant if Clinton is elected

The Senate Should Refuse to Confirm All of Hillary Clinton’s Judicial Nominees

You're also insulting the intelligence of the forum. We remember everything Mitch and the Gang said as clearly as if it had been Kool and the Gang.
And of course it's not just you, rest assured, it is every single Rightie who keeps harping on how Democrats aren't playing fair.
Spare me the Norma Desmond histrionics, all of you.

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Cordelier said:
I've always thought that Obama's biggest mistake was not having Biden and Reid march into the Senate chamber during a pro forma session of Oct. 2016 and make a point of order that a quorum wasn't present. The Republicans weren't going to be able to get a quorum when almost half of them were running for re-election.... and if they couldn't muster one for 10 days or so, the road would have been clear for Obama to have given Judge Garland and every other judicial nominee that was being obstructed a recess appointment. He could have had a mass swearing-in in the East Room of the White House.

If he had shown some Trumanesque fighting spirit like that, it may well have changed the outcome of the election... at the very least it would have gotten Garland onto the Supreme Court for at least a year.
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In that and many other respects, Obama was WEAK and too enamored of trying to make nicey nice with the Right, which was never ever going to happen. I understand that he had noble intentions, but someone on his team should have sat him down early in his first term and explained that

"Yes...he WAS the black man in the White House and yes, a whole lotta sick and demented old bigots in the GOP could not and would not tolerate his presence, and they were out to teach the uppity negro a lesson."

It seemed like the more he tried to reach out and make peace with the Republicans, the more incensed and inflamed they got.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
In that and many other respects, Obama was WEAK and too enamored of trying to make nicey nice with the Right, which was never ever going to happen. I understand that he had noble intentions, but someone on his team should have sat him down early in his first term and explained that

"Yes...he WAS the black man in the White House and yes, a whole lotta sick and demented old bigots in the GOP could and would not tolerate his presence, and they were out to teach the uppity negro a lesson."

It seemed like the more he tried to reach out and make peace with the Republicans, the more incensed and inflamed they got.
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To borrow some basketball terminology, Obama was a two-guard looking for a nice, easy outside shot.... he had no idea how to play under the rim where you have to throw an occasional elbow to get some respect.

McConnell & Co. served with Obama in the Senate... you can bet your behind they took his measure early. You can't just show up, serve a couple of years, make a few good speeches and expect to get much respect from guys who have been in the trenches there for 20-30 years. I remember reading a passage from his book where he talks about meeting with Senator Byrd when he first arrived there as a freshman Senator... and Byrd told him to sit down and study the rules, learn the precedents. Figure out what it takes to make the wheels turn. I kind of got the feeling that Obama, while respectful of the old man, kind of brushed him off as a relic. I don't think he really appreciated what Senator Byrd was trying to tell him... and the opportunity he let slip through his fingers.
 
Cordelier said:
To borrow some basketball terminology, Obama was a two-guard looking for a nice, easy outside shot.... he had no idea how to play under the rim where you have to throw an occasional elbow to get some respect.

McConnell & Co. served with Obama in the Senate... you can bet your behind they took his measure early. You can't just show up, serve a couple of years, make a few good speeches and expect to get much respect from guys who have been in the trenches there for 20-30 years. I remember reading a passage from his book where he talks about meeting with Senator Byrd when he first arrived there as a freshman Senator... and Byrd told him to sit down and study the rules, learn the precedents. Figure out what it takes to make the wheels turn. I kind of got the feeling that Obama, while respectful of the old man, kind of brushed him off as a relic. I don't think he really appreciated what Senator Byrd was trying to tell him... and the opportunity he let slip through his fingers.
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The only way the wheels were going to turn with him in the White House was if he momentarily slid his jacket to the side and let them see his Saturday Night Special, right next to his Wu Tang Clan tee shirt. He should have scared the crap out of them.

And that's quite doable. Trump has the entire Right wing TERRIFIED.
 
News flash: A second woman has come forward.
This time it's about Yale, 1983-84.

Ramirez said the group was playing a drinking game and she became inebriated. Later in the evening she was on the floor and remembered a “penis being in front” of her face before she pushed the person away, causing her to touch it. She said she recalled Kavanaugh standing next to her, laughing and pulling up his pants. Another student than yelled down the hall: “Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face.“
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Your golden boy is toast.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
The only way the wheels were going to turn with him in the White House was if he momentarily slid his jacket to the side and let them see his Saturday Night Special, right next to his Wu Tang Clan tee shirt. He should have scared the crap out of them.

And that's quite doable. Trump has the entire Right wing TERRIFIED.
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*LOL* That's a picture I'm going to have a hard time getting out of my head.

I don't think he would have had to go that far.... the Senate Republicans back in the 40's figured they had Harry Truman's measure too.... he had served with them for years and I'm sure they saw him as some backwater hick from Missouri who only got his job because of his connection to Tom Pendergast. They figured he was going to be a pushover in '48... but he shook up their perceptions somewhat, did he not? And all without the Wu Tan Clan T-shirt... although I'm sure that would have gotten their attention too.
 
Cordelier said:
*LOL* That's a picture I'm going to have a hard time getting out of my head.

I don't think he would have had to go that far.... the Senate Republicans back in the 40's figured they had Harry Truman's measure too.... he had served with them for years and I'm sure they saw him as some backwater hick from Missouri who only got his job because of his connection to Tom Pendergast. They figured he was going to be a pushover in '48... but he shook up their perceptions somewhat, did he not? And all without the Wu Tan Clan T-shirt... although I'm sure that would have gotten their attention too.
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I'm being facetious and sarcastic, but only "sort of" because my references all point to long held white Right wing perceptions of powerful black men.
And in a sense, Trump has been tooting those horns and gratifying all those people, and giving them license, all by scaring the crap out of them.

So I'm saying that Obama probably should have just pulled the trigger once it became clear that that was the game the Republicans were playing.
It seems like Obama felt that he had to downplay his image and try to appear "safe". That backfired on him.
The people who didn't like him weren't GOING TO LIKE HIM, and the people who did like him would have understood.
I don't for a single minute buy the nonsense about "I voted for him, thinking he would heal the nation but...."

Bull****, he was elected President, not the Black Moses.
He should have pulled the whole balls to the wall gambit.
The Republicans were acting like Kevin Hart.
Yeah, they're WHITE but they were acting like Kevin Hart.

 
Cordelier said:
To borrow some basketball terminology, Obama was a two-guard looking for a nice, easy outside shot.... he had no idea how to play under the rim where you have to throw an occasional elbow to get some respect.

McConnell & Co. served with Obama in the Senate... you can bet your behind they took his measure early. You can't just show up, serve a couple of years, make a few good speeches and expect to get much respect from guys who have been in the trenches there for 20-30 years. I remember reading a passage from his book where he talks about meeting with Senator Byrd when he first arrived there as a freshman Senator... and Byrd told him to sit down and study the rules, learn the precedents. Figure out what it takes to make the wheels turn. I kind of got the feeling that Obama, while respectful of the old man, kind of brushed him off as a relic. I don't think he really appreciated what Senator Byrd was trying to tell him... and the opportunity he let slip through his fingers.
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Good post!
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
I'm being facetious and sarcastic, but only "sort of" because my references all point to long held white Right wing perceptions of powerful black men.
And in a sense, Trump has been tooting those horns and gratifying all those people, and giving them license, all by scaring the crap out of them.

So I'm saying that Obama probably should have just pulled the trigger once it became clear that that was the game the Republicans were playing.
It seems like Obama felt that he had to downplay his image and try to appear "safe". That backfired on him.
The people who didn't like him weren't GOING TO LIKE HIM, and the people who did like him would have understood.
I don't for a single minute buy the nonsense about "I voted for him, thinking he would heal the nation but...."

Bull****, he was elected President, not the Black Moses.
He should have pulled the whole balls to the wall gambit.
The Republicans were acting like Kevin Hart.
Yeah, they're WHITE but they were acting like Kevin Hart.
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I get what you're saying... but I wouldn't ascribe any racial motivations for the Republicans being intransigent... they were just doing their job. It's the duty of the opposition party to oppose - and if they weren't made to pay a political price for that opposition, then who is to blame them for walking all over him? If anyone was affected by President Obama's race in all of this, I think it was he himself, for the reasons you point out. I admire the man for being true to himself and not making himself into some racial stereotype to get the job done... but I do think who he was just wasn't cut out to be an effective President. He just wasn't enough of a prick... it was the same problem Carter and Bush, Sr. had - they were too nice for the job.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
News flash: A second woman has come forward.
This time it's about Yale, 1983-84.



Your golden boy is toast.
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On to plan B. Plan A's credibility is shot after 4 failed "witnesses". What a beautiful plan, continue delaying and simultaneously, smearing. Ya think either will ever testify under oath? Bet a kidney that will never happen.
 
nota bene said:
I agree with McCarthy that the Kavanaugh hearing has become a circus, that the Left is trying to turn SCOTUS into an "über-legislature or imposing on the country the social-justice-warrior policy agenda that they cannot ride to victory at the ballot box, "and that the question now isn't whether it's fair but, rather, whether it will work. Harkening back to Garland days when there were "civilized limits on behavior," McCarthy says:

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.

The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side. Now Democrats are out to prove that if you abuse the process until it becomes a circus, the rules don’t matter. The steroid effect of their media echo chamber can overcome any thin, fraidy-scared GOP majority.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...grassley-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman/
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Aw aint that a shame.
 
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