Kavanaugh hearing

[AvtomatKalashnikova]

Holy cause: Kavanaugh will chip away at abortion. It’s not in the constitution! Therefore it is a state right, to ban or allow.

If any change is make for abortion law, it should be allow for 4th trimester and after, too

[Brian Peacock]

[laklak]

It should be legal till they're paying their own bills or age 21, whichever comes first.

[Cunt]

It should be legal.

Should Planned Parenthood be allowed to take federal funding, and use it to support one political candidate over another?

I used to think it didn't matter...

[Brian Peacock]

It should be legal.

Should Planned Parenthood be allowed to take federal funding, and use it to support one political candidate over another?

I used to think it didn't matter...

Should religious organisations be allowed to benefit from enormous tax breaks and use it to support one political canditate over another?

[Seabass]

It's looking more and more like Bart O'Kavanaugh is a big fat liar.

[Tero]

”I can’t remember assaulting any women!”
Can you remember anything?
”Well there was some alcohol. A shitload of alcohol. But that’s ALL I remember.”

[Seabass]

It should be legal.

Should Planned Parenthood be allowed to take federal funding, and use it to support one political candidate over another?

I used to think it didn't matter...

That's right-wing disinformation.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/plann ... elections/

[Brian Peacock]

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Feinstein, however, manipulated this situation in a way that should be shameful. Of course, since it is just politics, there will be no shame.

How?

Didn't she sit on the info awhile, timing things to interrupt late? Didn't she (her office) leak the letter from Ford to the press?

Did she? On 13 Sept she said her office had received information of concern regarding Mr Kavanaugh from an individual who wanted to remain anonymous and had passed it to the FBI, but she categorically stated in the hearings that she didn't leak that information to the press. I guess her denial is proof of her complicity, eh?

[laklak]

So the FBI is going to investigate, and the state of Maryland said they'll run their own investigation if Ford files a complaint. Think she'll do it?

I'm betting that the FBI investigation adds zero new information, just the same he said / she said we've already got. What they gonna find, DNA? So what happens then?

[Brian Peacock]

Exonerated by a lack of evidence, Judge Kavanaugh will ascend to the empty chair - further politicising the Supreme Court..

[laklak]

And is that proper? Should unsupported allegations be sufficient to deny confirmation? In a perfectly perfect world where everybody told the truth then yes, it should be sufficient. But in this one, peopled by political garbage drippings like the U.S. Senate, I just don't know.

Fuck it, what I think is irrelevant, won't change a thing. They're going to do what they're going to do, and devil take the hindmost.

[Tero]

CNN:
Republicans are aware that presidents, senators and representatives come and go, but supreme court appointments are for life. They aim to capture the court – with its power to shape abortion rights, worker protections and who gets to vote – for a generation. That, they have determined, is the big prize, even if it entails riding roughshod over the #MeToo movement and alienating millions of women.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... lasey-ford

[Seabass]

Max Boot is another ex-Republican who left the party over Trump.

In the Kavanaugh hearing, Republican rage overrides the desire to seek the truth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/po ... -the-truth

In the 1976 movie “Network,” Howard Beale is a dyspeptic TV anchorman with a high-decibel mantra: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.” If Beale were alive today, he would feel right at home in the Republican Party. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court showed that, among Republicans, rage has triumphed over reason.

As John Harwood of CNBC noted, Republicans don’t care what the science says about climate change. They don’t care what the economic models say about the fiscal impact of tax cuts. And they don’t care what the evidence says about the possibility that Kavanaugh may be guilty of sexual assault charges. All that matters is sticking it to the “libtards.”

Kavanaugh channeled this vibe perfectly in the most acerbic and abusive appearance of any nominee I have ever seen before any Senate committee. His face contorted in anger, he blasted Senate Democrats for replacing “advise and consent with search and destroy,” and turning the confirmation process into “a national disgrace.”

He reflected a conspiratorial mindset — another hallmark of the modern GOP — when he charged that he was the victim of “pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election” and even of Democrats seeking “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.” If that’s what this was about, why didn’t the previous Trump nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil M. Gorsuch, face any accusations of sexual assault?

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In trying to defend himself, Kavanaugh was evasive and deceptive. He was a nasty bully to mild-mannered Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), parrying her questions about whether he had ever had alcoholic blackouts by demanding, “Have you?” He later apologized for his rudeness, but this was typical of his failure to answer questions forthrightly.

When he was pressed on why his high school yearbook included the words “Renate Alumnius” — clearly macho bragging about having scored with a girl named Renate — he claimed that the term was “clumsily used to show affection.” Talk about a clumsy alibi. He testified, just as unbelievably, that the kind of party described by Ford could only have occurred on a weekend and that his calendar showed that every summer weekend in 1982 was booked — though an entry for July 1, a Thursday, seemingly referred to exactly the sort of gathering Ford had described. He also claimed that Ford’s allegation was “refuted by the very people she says were there,” when those people actually said that they do not remember the incident — a very different assertion. One of them, Leland Keyser, even says she believes Ford.

Most damning of all for Kavanaugh is that he had numerous opportunities to ask for an FBI investigation, as Ford has done, and refused to do so. Why, if Kavanaugh is telling the truth, would he resist involving the nation’s premier investigative agency? Wouldn’t an innocent man want his name cleared?

full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/po ... -the-truth

[Cunt]

It should be legal.

Should Planned Parenthood be allowed to take federal funding, and use it to support one political candidate over another?

I used to think it didn't matter...

Should religious organisations be allowed to benefit from enormous tax breaks and use it to support one political canditate over another?

I understood that there was a constitutional barrier to doing so, and that anyone who showed that it was happening, could trigger a de-funding.

Isn't that what happened to Planned Parenthood? They used funding wrong so it got cut.