Kavanaugh hearing

[Tero]

I guess it depend on whether you think a right to individual bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right or matter for elected legislators.

It’s not in the Bible. A man has the right to his wife’s body. Ask any senator.

[DRSB]

George W. Bush is reportedly calling undecided senators to sway them to vote for Kavanaugh

George W. Bush has been reaching out to senators ahead of a confirmation vote on Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee, according to a Washington Post report published Thursday.
The report says Bush had called at least some of the senators seen as swing votes in the confirmation: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, and Lisa Murkowski.
Flake announced on Friday that he would support Kavanaugh.
George W. Bush has been reaching out to senators ahead of a vote on confirming the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The Washington Post reported Thursday morning.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/george-bu ... ?r=US&IR=T

[Brian Peacock]

The more I think about this the more uncomfortable I get. Mr Kavanaugh has some serious questions to answer about his temperament, character and political independence - while his performance at the hearing Thursday reflected none of those personal and necessary qualities in a good light. But thing that makes me feel most uncomfortable in not so much the whole shameful three-ring-circus of it all, with senators of each stripe taking turns to act as ringmaster, but the eagerness with which Ms Ford's testimony was reduced to a mere "tactic" and then dismissed on that basis.

[Tero]

Some of the dick waggling to be excluded:
Citing multiple anonymous officials briefed on the matter, NBC News reported on Saturday that while "the FBI will examine the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, the bureau has not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s."

Michael Avenatti, the attorney of Stormy Daniels who is representing Swetnick, wrote on Twitter that if NBC's report is accurate, "this is outrageous."

"Why are Trump and his cronies in the Senate trying to prevent the American people from learning the truth?" Avenatti asked. "Why do they insist on muzzling women with information submitted under penalty of perjury? Why Ramirez but not my client?"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/ ... e-imposing

[Brian Peacock]

Look, Swetnick is clearly another name for The Antichrist. Would you let The Devil into the courtrooms of America? Would you? Would you?

[Tero]

Endless Kavanaugh memes have appeared. Here's one on Hatch
https://politics.theonion.com/orrin-hat ... 1829392732

[Tero]

Duplicate

[Tero]

[Animavore]

[Tero]

Some sort of moral conservative writes:
”Perhaps the collapse of modern conservatism came out most clearly in Kavanaugh’s own testimony—its self-pity, its hysteria, its conjuring up of conspiracies, its vindictiveness. He and his family had no doubt suffered agonies. But if we expect steely resolve from a police officer confronting a knife-wielding assailant, or disciplined courage from a firefighter rushing into a burning house, we should expect stoic self-control and calm from a conservative judge, even if his heart is being eaten out. No one watching those proceedings could imagine that a Democrat standing before this judge’s bench in the future would get a fair hearing. This was not the conservative temperament on display. It was, rather, personalized grievance politics.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ve/571747/

[Animavore]

[laklak]

"Personalized grievance politics". I like it.

[Tero]

Business as usual. It has not ”become,” always was woman hating.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayediti ... -1.4841395

[Seabass]

That is totally unfair to Republicans. They also hate non-Christians, non-whites, gays, and furriners.

[Tero]

FBI will not interview Ford or Kavanaugh. He has nothing but a calendar
She might have something.