That’s what I was thinking. Cotton mouth? Added to his best bud Mark Judge’s history, I think Brett may be liking beer a bit much.
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Go fuck yourself, Gloria. You’re just sore your kabuki theater performance failed to produce any believable results. Sad.
The Rump of nominees makes me kind of miss the Dick Cheney of nominees, who really did shoot his friend in the face, and whose friend really did apologize for it.
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I agree it’s likely there are corrupt understandings with him, or at least the near-certain expectation that he’ll be a rabid partisan. Remember, you can’t spell “partisan” without “rapist.”
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He probably has negative sobriety, needs a couple drinks to be sober.
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Why can’t DiFi get on board with America’s Beloved DoucheBro SCOTUS Justice?
The Dems always bring boxing gloves to a gun fight. They are the eternal “Charlie Brown” to the GOP “Lucy”. We need a bad ass enforcer on our team. Where’s the Left’s Karl Rove?
Kavanaugh is the essence of the GOP distilled into one bottle of vileness—built on lies and desperately afraid that at any time one of the lies will unravel the whole operation. It’s hard to keep remembering what BS he’s previously spun, and it makes him furious to keep being asked to revisit it.
The Dems are being criticized for not asking a wider range of questions. I disagree, because the only question left when each party insists they’re giving an accurate account is will they both allow the matter to be fully opened and examined if it has not been? This has not been, and he is the one who will not allow it. No words will ever explain away this one action, for the rest of his life. He has the capacity to understand this, surely his wife does, and I hope that some day his daughters will as well.
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At are you describing Scalia?
I think you misunderstand how the SC actually does its business. They spend very little time in face to face conversation and the idea that they would all allow the most junior person at the table to talk to them like that is unimaginable. His animus will come out in his writing the same way it has for Thomas all theses years.
Kavanaugh is unlike many conservative jurists a thoroughly political operative first. It’s why his 2003 nomination was so rough.
You might have had an argument that conservative wanted to destroy the court when it was controlled by liberals, but now that they have the prospect of a very solid and very right wing majority, they see the court as their most powerful policy weapon by far. They have never come close to reversing the New Deal by legislation. Far far from it. they will start the dismantling of the last 80 years of policy consensus in this country post haste. Kavanaugh is the crudest way of getting there frankly. They would have been better served finding another Gorsuch. There are plenty. But Kavanaugh held a lot of chits in this town, so he’s the man.
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Never has there been such a bizerk desperate frantic nominee to the SC … he is out of control and in a frightening way he is frantic to get on board … almost as desperate as a saboteur with an assignment to plant a bomb at a specific place and at a specific time … the slightest question … slightest delay …makes him look like he is going to break out into a cold sweat because he may not be able to fulfill his destructive assignment.
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Donnelly has announced that he’s a firm “NO” on Kavanaugh.
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The obvious coming solution is civil war that burns down Washington, DC while all senators / administration / reps are in town. Then, the country will break up into several sovereign nations and reduce the threat to all life on earth that is the present fascist state of Amerikkka. Read: “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” to see just how this coming revolution is going to start, proceed and then end, an amazing fictional reality story that is current and probable.
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Be thankful Joe Biden was not there. Right-wingers have already been posting this Biden performance from 1991 to make the point an FBI investigation would not prove anything:
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The Constitution clearly states that “good Behavior” is a condition to serving as Supreme Court justice. While I understand that’s generally interpreted to mean the same thing as high crimes & misdemeanors, the current political situation is cause for reevaluation of such norms. It is difficult to believe that the framers of the Constitution would have considered Brett Kavanaugh’s performance “good Behavior”
If he is confirmed by this new precedent, he can be impeached by a new precedent set in response to this one.
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What absolute horseshit.
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There can be no removal by impeachment without 60 votes in the Senate. NObody will be removed by this Senate, least of all Trump and Kavanaugh. And the likelihood of the Dems ever having a supermajority in the Senate is nigh near impossible.
Edited to add: Yes, I misspoke…67 votes to convict for Impeachment. Thanks everyone. DOH!
Democracy does still depend on public opinion. If Republican senators ignore a vast majority of the population’s desire for removal by impeachment for obvious crimes, then there is a good chance of the people voting in a Democratic supermajority.
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Worse than that—67 votes (2/3) needed for conviction in the Senate. But to the point, even with Dems in control re Nixon they lacked that 2/3, and still it looked as if Nixon would be convicted, so he resigned.
With effective hearings that count is possible.
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