Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on the growing pledges from House and Senate Democratic members to investigation and possibly impeach Brett Kavanaugh if he is confirmed this week. It would constitute a dangerous and reckless precedent for Democrats to pursue with any new majority.
Here is the column:
There is something vaguely familiar in the recent declarations by Democrats that they are prepared to hold post-confirmation investigations into Judge Brett Kavanaugh if he is confirmed. The idea is that, if given control, Democrats will order an effective redo in pulling Justice Kavanaugh back before one or both houses.
There is precedent for such a body. It was called the Synodus Horrenda, or the “Council Dreadful.” Used in medieval times, these tribunals could prosecute even the dead for long passed crimes. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) promised Kavanaugh that it does not matter if he is confirmed because “as soon as Democrats get gavels” the party will investigate and possibly impeach him. On the House side, Democratic representatives on the House Judiciary Committee, including Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), have declared that they will open up an investigation into Justice Kavanaugh as soon as they regain control over the House.
In other words, neither confirmation nor death will prevent a day of reckoning once power shifts hands. The implications are chilling for a system designed to insulate justices from political threats or retaliation. The most famous Council Dreadful (or “cadaver synod” or “council horrible”) was called in 897 when Pope Stephen VI wanted to try Pope Formosus for crimes that occurred decades earlier. The problem was that Formosus was already dead. His successor, Pope Boniface VI, died under controversial circumstances after only 15 days. Stephen then took over the papacy and the Council Dreadful, which dug up Formosus and propped him on his throne to answer for his crimes. Not surprisingly, he failed to convince the jury composed of his enemies. He was convicted, stripped of papal garments, and three fingers of his right hand used for blessings were cut off. He ultimately was thrown into the river Tiber.
Whitehouse seemed eager to put the dread back into the Council Dreadful last week in proclaiming that “the sand is running through Kavanaugh’s hourglass.” The pledge to effectively have a do over is playing well with Democratic voters even though the odds of a successful impeachment are remote. Being tossed in the Potomac may be one of the few indignities not awaiting Kavanaugh if such post-confirmation hearings are ordered. It would create precedent for justices to be retroactively investigated on allegations raised but rejected in their confirmations.
I previously said that I agree with Democrats that the withholding of years of background material for Kavanaugh was unprecedented and wrong. Yet, the degree of disclosures demanded by the Senate is, ultimately, a decision of the majority. Moreover, Kavanaugh’s answers about his work on controversial matters were sufficiently hedged to make any claim of perjury difficult to establish. Whitehouse, however, was not talking about Kavanaugh’s work as White House secretary in the Bush administration.
Whitehouse was suggesting that a potential Democratic majority after midterms would call a Justice Kavanaugh to answer allegations that he was a serial rapist. The problem is that the Senate already has heard from the witnesses cited by Christine Blasey Ford and none corroborate her accounts, or even remember the party in question. This is not dispositive, since Ford said she told no one until many years later. However, she cannot remember the date or the specific location of the incident, or the identity of the person who drove her home after she fled the party.
Republicans have not helped the process with their artificial limitations on investigating the claims. Rightfully irate at the Democrats for holding the allegations until shortly before the committee’s vote, Republicans refused to ask for a FBI investigation and then effectively waived serious examination of Ford by hiring a female prosecutor who was limited to questions in ridiculous five minute increments. The haiku style examination of Ford was wide and correctly derided. Similarly, Democrats had little ability to examine Kavanaugh in such brief segments.
Finally, the belated week long FBI investigation seemed more suited for political cover than actually uncovering new evidence. Nevertheless, a special hearing was held, declarations gathered, and a supplemental investigation ordered on allegations occurring decades ago. To call post-confirmation hearings on such allegations would expose all justices to lingering threats of investigation with shifting majorities in Congress. That is precisely what the Framers sought to avoid in establishing a high standard for impeachment and giving federal jurists a lifetime tenure.
It seems highly unlikely that Democrats would be as motivated in promising to pull back Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan before Congress on discrepancies in their records. Democratic nominees have faced allegations of untrue statements before Congress without the threat of post-confirmation investigation. Some advocates objected that Kagan denied being asked for or offering her opinion on the “the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation” or “the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from such legislation” while she was solicitor general of the Justice Department during the Obama administration.
Later, critics argued that newly disclosed documents showed that, after the Affordable Care Act was enacted, Kagan was consulted on the challenge to that law and may have forwarded some possible arguments to use in litigation. While this became an issue in calling for her later recusal from hearing the appeal, there was no call for her removal.
Impeachments were primarily designed to address misdeeds or abuse in office. While a nominee clearly committing perjury in a confirmation hearing could raise grounds for impeachment, it would be in stark contrast to the past record of these very same members. Democrats did not call for such probe into figures like former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who lied about a major and allegedly unconstitutional surveillance program before the Senate. He admitted that he had chosen the “least untruthful” option in his testimony. Whitehouse did not pull out his hourglass to menace Clapper.
None of this is meant to suggest either certainty or satisfaction with the status of these allegations. Like many, I found both Ford and Kavanaugh’s testimony compelling. I would have preferred that Democrats revealed the allegations earlier. I would have preferred that Republicans provided more time for questions and investigation. Moreover, it is still not clear what, if anything, the FBI might uncover or how this will end.
Yet, end it must. There needs to be finality in some parts of our government, even as chaos reigns in all other parts. If senators are troubled by the lack of disclosures or time, they can in good faith vote against Kavanaugh. However, a confirmation vote shows that the requisite majority of senators were satisfied enough with the record to confirm.
Democratic members should consider the potential political cost of endorsing retroactive reviews of confirmation hearings. It certainly did not work out well for Pope Stephen VI, who was eventually arrested and condemned to death by strangulation. Watching this unfolding spectacle in Washington, many voters know exactly how he must have felt.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
The Democrats seem to fail to realize, or care, that in order to convict an impeached Mr. Kavanagh there needs to be a 2/3rds majority and that ain’t gonna happen. Moreover the star witnesses in their prosecution will collapse under the strain of the trial and the Democrats will look like complete jackasses for putting everyone through this wholly unnecessary ordeal.
Hearings that include testimony from the many witnesses who have been ignored in the current FBI investigation due to extreme restrictions placed on it by Kavenaugh’s handler for the confirmation and White House counsel, Don McGahn, would be in order. Sometimes corrective actions are required.
Of course, Kavanaugh’s obvious partisan bias and his very unjudge-like demeanor are currently disqualifying.
You say so, but you aint a Senator. thank you for your opinion, nonetheless
Hearings that include testimony from the many witnesses who have been ignored in the current FBI investigation due to extreme restrictions placed on it by Kavenaugh’s
They don’t exist outside your imagination, bettykath
The FBI has not interviewed Blasey-Ford or Kavanaugh, but that’s really not necessary since the Judiciary Committee has already heard their direct testimony, and Ford was also questioned by a prosecutor retained by the Committee.
Those lies alone prove she may be lying about her assault too. I noticed she hesitated when asked if she ever helped someone pass a lie detector test. Then just said “no.” I also have heard she wrote an article on how to hypnotize yourself. The more that comes out about this lady, the more her credibility wanes. But bottom line is: the Democrats are given a pass on everything and the Republicans are held to the highest standard. Not fair.
yep, she lied about that. she knows precisely how to beat the box.
SHE should be brought up on charges for this deceptive falsehood.
The Democrats are bringing us back to medieval times by the way they are reacting. I’ve never seen anything like this in all my life. The opposition to K is over the top. But it is only because Trump won and they are still resisting everything he approves. We have to nip this crap in the bud or it will become the norm. “If you think this is about getting to the truth, put down the bong!” Line on the week.
I”m pretty far from ok. What now? Let me tell you what now…… time to get medieval.
This is far more than resisting Trump, this is doing everything imaginable to prevent an anti-administrative state conservative justice from getting on the court.
And the only cadaver the Democrats should be concerned with will be RBG. She’s the what’s that ticking sound? Markitty keeps asking about.
Once Kavanaugh take a seat on SCOTUS, someone, anyone, should bring forth a case before the High Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Then….let the fun begin.
“In a written declaration released Tuesday and obtained by Fox News, an ex-boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, directly contradicts her testimony under oath last week that she had never helped anyone prepare for a polygraph examination. The former boyfriend, whose name was redacted in the declaration, also said Ford neither mentioned Kavanaugh nor mentioned she was a victim of sexual misconduct during the time they were dating from about 1992 to 1998. He said he saw Ford going to great lengths to help a woman he believed was her “life-long best friend” prepare for a potential polygraph test. He added that the woman, Monica McLean, had been interviewing for jobs with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office. He further claimed that Ford never voiced any fear of flying (even while aboard a propeller plane) and seemingly had no problem living in a “very small,” 500 sq. ft. apartment with one door — apparently contradicting her claims that she could not testify promptly in D.C. because she felt uncomfortable traveling on planes, as well as her suggestion that her memories of Kavanuagh’s alleged assault prompted her to feel unsafe living in a closed space or one without a second front door. Ford “never expressed a fear of closed quarters, tight spaces, or places with only one exit,” the former boyfriend wrote.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christine-blasey-ford-ex-boyfriend-says-she-helped-friend-prep-for-potential-polygraph-grassley-sounds-alarm
Thomas moore – “Release the Kraken!!! Bring us an abortion case!!!!!”
Some, anonymous, spurned boyfriend is talking trash about her. Wow, that’s compelling.
Kitty Wampus – he is named, but redacted.
Paul – Why is his name redacted? If he wants to challenge the credibility of Blasey-Ford, then he should be identified so that people who know him can comment on his credibility and motives. He may be a perfectly fine gentleman; I don’t know, but I have problems with someone hiding behind the cloak of anonymity in such an important matter.
Kitty Wampus – I did not redact it. Chrissy tried to throw a wrench in the works and remain anonymous, too.
Kitty, His name need only be known by those investigating, researching and voting. Ford and her attornies already know his name and they are able to gather contrary evidence. I can understand your point of view that everything placed into evidence should be released including names. Since Ford’s evidence included psychiatric notes and the entire polygraph proceedings those should have been released in full as well once the claim was made.
This will hopefully teach Republicans not to give in to Democrat demands. It only encourages them to behave worse, like terrorists.
It was a mistake not to have a female attorney rip all the obvious holes in her accusation to shreds.
The Democrats spent their 5 minutes stroking Fird’s ego and making sound bites against the fabricated war on women.
The only limit on the FBI was to wat the Bureau determined were credible allegations. The one week duration was a compromise. It was more than sufficient to investigate the zero evidence she provided of no time no place and a changing year. And it prevented the Democrats from making it last until 2020 during which he would have been accused of orchestrating the Evil Clown with black balloons sightings across America. As Professor Turley pointed out, Democrats would resort to a Cadaver Synod. NO AMOUNT of investigation would satisfy him, because this is not about any crime. It’s because he is conservative.
They are employing political terrorism to prevent him, or any other conservative, from attaining the Supreme Court. And if they are successful, they will do this again and again to any high office, like the Presidency, until terrorism has turned the US into a Single Party State.
This must be fought with everything we’ve got. If they do drag Kavanaugh back when they have a majority then we will do the same to theirs.
They have libeled conservatives as racists for years and now it’s rapist. How dare they wesponize such an accusation for political gain. This is a slap in the face for rape victims everywhere.
Fight the Jackbooted Brown Shirts dehumanizing conservatives and falsely labeling us evil! Extremism has infested the mainstream Left. We all know how this has ended before.
I would like to add that Kavanaugh broke all records in the amount of documents he was able to provide. Any withholding due to privilege was done through the White House, not him.
What good did half a million documents do? Nothing. It will never be enough because it was never about the documents.
ma’ma, now you understand what we call “discovery” in at least 2/3 of lawsuits. tons of documents, but it’s never really about the documents
No Karen S, it is about character.
“We all know how this has ended before.”
armageddon
http://revelationscriptures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Jesus-on-White-Horse-with-Armies-of-Heaven-Armageddon-Sword-out-of-Mouth.jpg
don’t get your hopes up buddy, Jesus isn’t bailing us out. The Lord helps those who help themselves.
“The Lord helps those who help themselves.”
Just because you repeat it over and over does not make it true.
On Phantom Biblical Verses:
“God helps those who help themselves!”
Hezekiah 6:1
This verse, of course, is not in the Bible. Hezekiah sounds plausible enough, but is not a real book of scripture. “Yeah! That’s from the book of Hezekiah, isn’t it?” is the code-word for these kinds of phantom texts.
This would seem old news by now, but just recently a friend of ours was scandalized when we told her this “verse” did not exist.
More important, this “verse” is unbiblical in its meaning. It is exactly the opposite of the message of scripture.
Jer 17:5 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.”
Prov 28:26 (NIV) He who trusts in himself is a fool…
i didn’t say it was in the Bible. I just said it like I believed it. Like I do.
Don’t preach to me fool, I have had a bellyful of preachers in my life.
Right wingers better stop putting their trust in preachers, that’s for sure
I tell you another thing. You got your book of ancestral fables, and I got mine. Mine wasn’t written in Hebrew.
” The tale of Herakles and the Cowherd, first recorded by Babrius towards the end of the 1st century CE, is one of these. The rustic’s cart falls into a ravine and he calls on the deified strongman for help, only to be advised by a voice from Heaven to put his own shoulder to the wheel first. In a variant recorded by the near contemporary Zenobius an ass founders in the mud, while in the later Latin of Avianus it is a cart drawn by oxen that gets stuck there. The fable appears as number 291 in the Perry Index.[2] Another fable of the same tendency is numbered 30 in that index. It tells of a man who is shipwrecked and calls on the goddess Athena for help; he is advised by another to try swimming (‘moving his arms’) as well.[3][4]
Evidence that the advice on which they close is old and probably of proverbial origin is provided by its appearance in ancient Greek tragedies, of which only fragments now remain. In the Philoctetes (c.409 BCE) of Sophocles appear the lines, “No good e’er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act.”[5] And in the Hippolytus (428 BCE) of Euripides there is the more direct, “Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.” — wiki
Ben Franklin said it too. Good enough authorities for me, I don’t need the ancient Sanhedrin’s approval for common sense.
Don’t waste your energy praying for help, Republicans. This fight requires effort not meditation.
The Left mocks the religiosity of conservatives. I am going to mock it too, because I am old and honest enough to see how this kind of thinking encouratges passivity and laziness. It endorses people wasting their time and go home and passively await the paroussia instead of “putting shoulder to the wheel” like the Cowherd.
I have no problem with prayer but in the “ora et labora” dont forget the LABORA
I think once confirmed the there should be an investigation into Ford’s as well as McCabe’s Go Fund me accounts to expose who their donors are. Wouldn’t surprise me if the whole go fund me thing is a Clapper run entity.
I hope voters are paying attention to the Kratz playbook: if you lose, just destroy the institutions themselves. They have been on a crusade to de-legitimize anyone who opposes them for decades! What is now at stake, is democracy and our republic itself. Disgusting!
You are exactly right. Because the Democratic leadership does not care about anything but power, and money. Their rabid fanatic base supports them, under the illusion that they are part of a Holy Crusade. It is fascinating to watch. Like a train wreck.
Hilarious how the “Thinking Party” has become the “Lynch Mob Party.” There is a reason why idiots, like Maxine Waters, are Democrats. Stupidity and unwavering belief pervade the party.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Every phony crusade at the bottom is just another fight for resources.
And every fight for resources is a fight to survive and flourish.
Every squabble like this, then, is at the foot of it, not holy anything, just the struggle for existence. And you either want to win, and have the will to win, and the wherewithall to accomplish it– or not.
Prepare yourselves for far more vicious fights a-coming.
I would say, “and/or flourish” because the Democratic leadership is not worried about mere survival. They want MORE wealth and power.
They have progressed way up Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. But yes, it is time for Republicans to dig in and fight as dirty as the Democrats. Pick up the proverbial folding metal chair and whomp them over the head. Past time to quit being the Good Wrestler and give the Bad Wrestlers a tasted of their own medicine.
But it won’t happen, and the country will go down the tubes.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Refusal to consider Garland broke it.
This is the go to excuse partisan Democrats offer, because they fancy it’s an outrage any time they don’t get what they want.
The Senate can reject nominees at their discretion. Get over it. Garland wasn’t mistreated in the least. His nomination was ignored and he was left in peace.
To call the K man a serial rapist is a wild accusation. It is also a mis spelling. To rape a Cherio is a small thing. The thing speaks for itself. It is said that K’s thing spoke and that is how Doctor Ford identified him later. She looked him up on My Dingl A Ling . com.
Did President Clinton lie under oath about sex? Why, yes! Let’s impeach him every time Congress convenes.
Did Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama lie to the American public about Benghazi? Why, yes! Let’s impeach them too.
Did Kavanaugh lie about his High School Yearbook? Perhaps. Let’s impeach him.
Did Ginsburg lie about something, ever? Perhaps. Let’s impeach her and then investigate.
Did Turley ever make an untrue assertion on WordPress? He is a public figure, so any false claim, even under oath, is not a crime. Don’t like what he writes? Check all his testimony before Congress and see if he ever made a mistake or appears to.
Diane’s offered about a dozen comments this morning under two different sock-puppets.
Tabarrok lacks the mens rea necessary to knowingly, willfully post false statements on the Turley blawg. Tabarrok has that mental defect in common with Kavanaugh.
I previously said that I agree with Democrats that the withholding of years of background material for Kavanaugh was unprecedented and wrong
It is? Can you please name another candidate for judicial office who has been subject to a dumpster dive this extensive by the press and by Congress? (Which included FOIA demands by the Associated Press for Ashley Kavanaugh’s office e-mails)? (I mean other than the Democrats trolling around for the records of a Princeton alumni association Samuel Alito had belonged to).
Of course the blather about impeachment is stupid. The Democrats haven’t had a supermajority in Congress of sufficient dimension in 50-odd years. The Democratic caucus used to be much more intramurally refractory than it is today, so even when they had a 4-1 majority in the Senate (1937-38), they didn’t have the votes to pull a maneuver like this.
What it does indicate is what sort of poses will please their
marksvoters. It tells us something rather gruesome about partisan Democrats. You can read these threads and see how that subset of the population “thinks”.Thinks? The Collective isn’t allowed to think. Only to regurgitate.
Turley wrote, “Moreover, it is still not clear what, if anything, the FBI might uncover or how this will end.
Yet, end it must. There needs to be finality in some parts of our government, even as chaos reigns in all other parts. If senators are troubled by the lack of disclosures or time, they can in good faith vote against Kavanaugh. However, a confirmation vote shows that the requisite majority of senators were satisfied enough with the record to confirm.
Democratic members should consider the potential political cost of endorsing retroactive reviews of confirmation hearings. It certainly did not work out well for Pope Stephen VI, who was eventually arrested and condemned to death by strangulation. Watching this unfolding spectacle in Washington, many voters know exactly how he must have felt.”
Jimmy Webb wrote:
Mac Arthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh! Nooooo!
Oh! Nooooo!
Compare and contrast the above with sentences that Turley didn’t write:
“If senators are troubled by the lack of [a confirmation hearing], they can [not] in good faith vote [to confirm Merrick Garland]. However, [the denial of a confirmation hearing] shows that the requisite majority of senators were [dis]satisfied enough with the [absent] record to [deny a] confirm[-ation hearing].
{Republican] members should consider the potential political cost of [deny]ing active reviews of [Supreme Court nominations].
On remembering what happened after Garland and before Kavanaugh:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/senate-nuclear-option-neil-gorsuch/index.html
Excerpted from the article linked above:
“Washington (CNN) — The Senate Thursday triggered the so-called “nuclear option” that allowed Republicans to break a Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
The chamber is now expected to vote to confirm Gorsuch Friday around 11:30 a.m. ET.
The controversial changes to Senate rules, made along partisan lines, allows filibusters of Supreme Court picks to be broken with only 51 votes rather than 60.”
And they can’t even muster Fifty-One votes to confirm Kavanaugh. Why not? Cheater’s proof! “It’s so unfair” that Turley claims it’s getting medieval.
Senator Chuck Schumer found new ways to oppose current & future judge picks.
These folks have no clue how ridiculous they look. Ted Lieu is a nut. Hank Johnson thought Guam could be tipped over if there was too much weight added to one side of the island. Gutierrez is from the most corrupt state in the action – Illinois (MO). Don’t know much about the others. These people have as much credibility as Julie Swetnick.
wipam – Jeff Flake is a Mormon from Snowflake, AZ. You cannot make this stuff up.
The problem with an impeachment hearing is they will throw in a real defense attorney and some people are going to get ripped a new one. Even if, and it is a big if, the Democrats were to take the Senate, there would not be enough votes to convict. It is an exercise in futility. I think the Democrats are just playing to their base.
McConnell can’t get Kavanaugh confirmed in the first place. So there. The impeachment prospect applies only to Kavanaugh’s current office.
L4Yoga enables David Benson, R. Lien and Marky Mark Mark – it counts for any impeachment. They still need the votes in the Senate to convict and they will not have them. Chrissy’s story is falling apart. Rameriz is out of it and Swetnick is way out of it.
The FISA warrant abuse story has fallen apart on multiple occasions. The SpyGate story is out of it. And the Rosenstein wiring Trump story is way out of it.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock . . . whimper.
L4Yoga enables David Benson, R. Lien and Marky Mark Mark – the FISA warrants are ongoing, Spygate was in 2007, and Rosenstein is on razor-thin ice.
How is Dr. Ford’s account of Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct falling apart? It seems that Mark Judge’s former girlfriend, and other high school/college acquaintances of Kavanaugh, are corroborating the context and contours of her story, actually. Add that to the growing number of people on both sides of the aisle that are disturbed by Kavanaugh’s lack of candor under oath and lack of impartial judicial temperment (see Benjamin Wittes’ article in Atlantic, “I Would Not Confirm Brett Kavanaugh,” for example) and I think your characterization of the health of his confirmation is overblown.
How is Dr. Ford’s account of Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct falling apart? It seems that Mark Judge’s former girlfriend, and other high school/college acquaintances of Kavanaugh, are corroborating the context and contours of her story, actually.
Nice try, Natacha. Mark Judge’s ex has not and cannot corroborate anything. She said that she had a conversation with Judge (thirty years ago) where he told her about an event some years earlier where he was present when a woman serviced a line of men. I’ll leave to the actual lawyers who post here to tally the layers of hearsay in that statement. The ‘other acquaintances’ recall an event where BK threw a drink in someone’s face. Which doesn’t ‘corroborate’ anything, much less the ‘context and contours of her story’.
What hasn’t emerged in the 120+ hours since she testified is any evidence other than her account that she was acquainted with Kavanaugh or Judge.
Oh, and her ex from ca. 1995 has weighed in: she lived in a studio apartment with a single door, traveled in aeroplanes (including prop planes) without complaint, never mentioned any sexual assault in the six years they kept company, and stole $600 from him on her way out the door. Real helpful to her case.
Addendum: Judge’s girlfriend offered no information about Kavanaugh at all.
L.J. Stark – Chrissy’s ex college bf has given a written statement under oath that she had no problem with small places, one door or flying at any time, even prop planes. And that they broke up because she cheated on him while she was in school in Hawaii.
and she lied about her facility with “beating the box” a subject she knows all about. not surprisingly since she is a pscyhologist… but she lied about that
” … corroborating the context and contours of her story, actually.”
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About as smarmy a prevarication as you’ll ever read. You should have added “while dismissing the alleged facts of the story.” But that presupposes you wanted to be accurate.
Anyone who believes he showed a lack of candor has fallen prey to the terrorist tactic of deliberately spreading misinformation about him to poison voters. They’ll read a lie but not the truth. It’s like Mean Girls slaughtering a reputation with a burn book.
If this was in high school, where Democrats seem stuck, it would look like they were trying to drive the nerdy kid to commit suicide.
yes they would love it if every “old white man” would just roll over and die. that’s why I call them amazons. amazons brought in the men once a year to fertilize them and then moved them out after a month. that’s how the crazy feminists want it today. men poor and silent and disenfranchised. once you give up the money, and they have your seed, you’re good for nothing. immigrants will mow the grass now too; they’ve showed the intention to kick whitey out of that village Hillary says will raise the kids. bye bye whitey, piss off now!
Well, Republicans maybe get the picture now and will reconsider collaborating in their own disenfranchisement.
Kavanaugh needs to sue the snot out of any false accusers and expose their political motivation.
Karen S – Now we find out that Chrissy finished her home remodel in 2010. Hmmmm??? And that 2nd door goes into a home office she shares with a family marriage counselor who counseled Chrissy and her husband. The counselor, a woman, sold them the house in 2007, but maintains an office in Chrissy’s house. She specializes in long forgotten memories. Hmmmmm??????
Where did you find out who the marriage counselor was?
DSS – Red State was reporting it this morning, along with the dates for the remodel. Oh, she has a solar heater and a plug in for electric vehicles, too.
Electric vehicles? Brett Kavnanaugh’s not the only one you can treat as an archetype.
DSS – I think the plug ins are for the Google employees who so kindly scrubbed her web presence. She really owes them. They did a damn good job.
Oh, I see it is posted on Real Clear Investigations
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/02/building_documents_undermine_fords_exit_door_account.html
we’re way past suing people at this level. This is the highest level of legislature confirming for the highest court. At this level suing for anything would concede defeat.
Malarkey sued; yes, that was a concession of defeat, a grasping at straws
NICE ARTICLE
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Hmmm wel yes. They lost their basic four witnesses their fake NC professor and now their number one main witness has been outed by her ex husband. they have nothing. ……Except made a very large group of enemies . What’s a twink to do? Votes on Thursday and who wants to get stuck with a reputation of basin their vote on a snow flake?
Please elaborate on the “out[ing] of the “main witness” by her “ex husband”, see no mention of your allegations on Google.
There isn’t any “ex-husband.” It’s an anonymous, spurned ex-boyfriend.
Kitty Wampus – it is an ex boyfriend she cheated on while in grad school in Hawaii, where she flew in prop planes, without fear of flying. And after the breakup she used still ran up $600 on his credit cards. He was able to get that back. The letter is available online.
Flake is so weak and pathetic, i hate him more than DiFi and Schumer combined.
Don’t be a traitor folks; the team that you played against will always hate you and the team you betrayed will hate you more