Discussion: DOJ Issues Statement On Kavanaugh Background Check

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Yep and Yep.

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O word word wordy word word. hahahahaha

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This is just some rough horseplay by the DOJ.

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“Actually, if he was habitually pass out drunk his “I don’t remember” defense would be unimpeachable.“

I think it would, because if he got that drunk his lack of memory would be meaningless, and therefore unreliable.

Care to address the rest of the sentence, about O’Kavanaugh’s ability to credibly claim “I know I never did anything like this”?

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This guy is going to take a quarter of a million taxpayer dollars every year in salary. (Justices got a three grand salary bump last year. How’d you do?) Add to that health care, a fine pension, very nice accommodations, lucrative speaking engagements…

But we taxpayers can’t know that much about him. That makes for a corrupt Republican Court to match the corrupt Republican Congress.

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When the victim identifies the alleged attacker’s best friend as an eyewitness, and that friend refuses to testify, I know what inference I’m drawing from that refusal.

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Hell, “Humpy” O’Kavanaugh started lying the moment he was officially nominated. To wit:

Mr. President, thank you. Throughout this process, I’ve witnessed firsthand your appreciation for the vital role of the American judiciary.

No President has ever consulted more widely, or talked with more people from more backgrounds, to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination.

This alone should’ve disqualified him from any position other than President of Pathological Liars Anonymous, and Tommy Flanagan isn’t giving that up anytime soon.

“I was nominated to serve on the Supreme Court but I couldn’t do it. Yeah, because I was too busy sailing on my 60, uh, 90, no 290-foot yacht … with my wife, uh, Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
— Tommy Flanagan, explaining why he never served on the Supreme Court.

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There are single-trial learners, and some people never learn even after repeated trials. I got room-spinning drunk twice, throwing up drunk once (the second room-spinning occasion). I started monitoring and moderating my alcohol intake after that experience.

I had friends in college and grad school who never learned that lesson, even after repeated experiences of being puking drunk.

It’s a similar thing for other learned behaviors. That’s one of the reasons I’m certain Professor Blasey is not the only woman who was groped (or more) by Bart O’Kavanaugh. He learned that behavior somewhere, and someone knew enough to have the 65-woman character witness letter in their coat pocket. But I don’t think it was Dr. Blasey he was thinking of when he told his handlers, “Oh, by the way, there’s this thing in my past…”

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The only reason we heard about Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings was because the FBI had questioned her. Worth noting.

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The language you quote must have really not sat well with “Small but not freakishly small” minded Donald Trump. And also lead him to scream “Witch Hunt! Eric Holder did the Memo!”

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I have to disagree with this statement. The FBI followed the standard protocol in this case. They referred the letter to the WH, the agency that requested the background investigation (BI) to start with. The proper procedure is for the WH to now request the FBI to reopen the investigation for the purpose of gathering information about the allegation in the letter. Without that request, the FBI cannot move forward. The BI was closed. To reopen it requires action on the part of the originator of the BI. The dereliction of duty is on the part of the WH.

And the notion advanced yesterday at a press availability by 45 that the “FBI doesn’t want to do this” is beyond absurd. Not surprisingly he’s wrong and trying to deflect responsibility. It’s the job of the FBI to undertake investigations – it’s in their name – and they do “this” every single day. There is a whole unit over at the Bureau that is responsible for nothing other than BIs. They are well equipped to conduct the necessary interviews and write a report. They’ve done it many thousands of times over several decades.

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Well first let’s ask why didn’t they find out that Kavanaugh was hanging out with a bunch of heavy drinkers of ill repute in highschool in the first place? Isn’t this something that an adequate vetting process would have found?

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First, back to the pass out drunk defense. Been there, done that. Once, in undergraduate school. I remember where the party was and how I got there but have absolutely no memory of what happened or how I got to where I woke up the next morning. I could testify under oath with absolute confidence that “I don’t remember.”

The second defense, “I know I never did anything like this,” is the polar opposite. If I honestly don’t remember then I cannot at the same time credibly claim that I never did anything like this. Conversely, if you are going to deny my lack of memory then you cannot dismiss my claim that I didn’t do it.

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Keep working toward the Führer, Jeff. Surely you’ll see your reward…

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Dr. Ford’s opportunity to speak has been meticulously crafted to guarantee she will not be heard by anyone whose vote matters.

It’s more in the nature of a begrudging allowance of her unavoidable fifteen minutes.

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Depends on which field office received the information right?!?

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And at Yale law school.

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Holy frijole can you get that info to your Senator as well as Harris and Feinstein. That’s an amazing fact that the GOPers are not going to want to have to have revealed on the open senate floor if they pass Kav out with 11 votes.

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  • climate change
  • voter fraud
  • Russian interference in elections
  • corporate malfeasance
  • sexual assault

Why would anyone think even for a second that Republicans have even a passing interest in the truth?

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Trump’s not going to do anything to jeopardize seating K. It’s going forward. Period.

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