Some of the Republican statements:

Ted Cruz




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/l_6c2101sGE


Lindsey Graham




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/QKSc_5cilt0

I'm curious what tricks Schumer/Feinstein et all have up their sleeves for the remainder of the week. They tipped their hand this morning with the delay tactics, I'm curious how they'll continue the charade in the next day or two.

I know Senator Grassley let quite a bit of the mob rule run the committee today. Hope he tightens the reins for the remainder. Unless he knows its all for show and is content letting the Dems dig a hole.

I'd love to see Grassley/McConnell respond to the Dems childish nonsense by gaveling the hearings to a close and moving directly to a floor vote.

quote:

Originally posted by smschulz:
The worst reasons I'm hearing from the Dems is that if confirmed they won't be able to convict Trump of something.

Dems are so stupid and corrupt that they apparently don't know (or don't mind lying) that SCOTUS has nothing to do with conviction of Trump. That's a function of Congress not the Court. Kavanaugh has no role in that process.

quote:

Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
I'd love to see Grassley/McConnell respond to the Dems childish nonsense by gaveling the hearings to a close and moving directly to a floor vote.

HAHAHA can they do that? That would be fantastic!

quote:

Originally posted by Ackks:

quote:

Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
I'd love to see Grassley/McConnell respond to the Dems childish nonsense by gaveling the hearings to a close and moving directly to a floor vote.

HAHAHA can they do that? That would be fantastic!

No. The Judiciary Committee will report to the full Senate which will then go through those procedures. No short cuts, no skips.

Thank God for "Dirty Harry" Reid.

He's the one who made it possible for Kavanaugh's confirmation to go through without requiring a 60 vote majority.

And for not being there.

Tomorrow I'm going to go fishing instead of watching day 2.


nero

Leftist diehards, real extremists, love the shit the Democrats pulled today. But let's see in November if this party that behaves like snot-nosed brats, that calls for the dissolution of ICE, that champions illegal aliens who kill Americans, that pledges to impeach the president who has given us a vibrant economy-- let's see what happens to them in November.

Dems: We need all those documents on Kavenaugh...

Repubs: We need all those documents on Russia...

History is in the making. We are going to have a conservative court. If Trump gets to pick another justice the liberals will go nuts. Wait a minute, they already are.

quote:

Originally posted by 9mmnut:
History is in the making. We are going to have a conservative court. If Trump gets to pick another justice the liberals will go nuts. Wait a minute, they already are.

It's hard to imagine how the dems could be any more despicable than they were today in that hearing, but of course I know better. When RBG expires, they are going to be 1000 times worse I have no doubt.

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was among the left-wing activists arrested Tuesday for interrupting the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Sasour entered the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building just before 9:30 a.m. EDT. She sat quietly with other anti-Kavanaugh activists until the hearing opened, at which point she loudly rebuked Republican lawmakers and urged them to adjourn. She continued to shout at senators as she was dragged from the room by multiple police officers. Several other activists brandishing signs immediately followed suit and were removed.

How the fuck did this Sharia Law loving bitch get into the hearing?! I did not watch one second of this shitshow, but did some Democrat scumbag invite this professional asshole?

Are "protesters" allowed into the chambers? How is this legal?

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

quote:

Originally posted by 9mmnut:
History is in the making. We are going to have a conservative court. If Trump gets to pick another justice the liberals will go nuts. Wait a minute, they already are.

It's hard to imagine how the dems could be any more despicable than they were today in that hearing, but of course I know better. When RBG expires, they are going to be 1000 times worse I have no doubt.

Corey Booker: "Hold my beer."

Apparently these crazy wackos on the left are claiming that the woman sitting directly behind Kavenaugh was flashing “white power” hand signs.

I’ll bet you a million dollars she was making the European hand sign for “I think you’re an asshole”. We call it “A-OK” but Europeans know it well as the asshole sign.

Sure, obfuscate and delay, that's what a minority party should do.

But grandstanding?

At least Kennedy doesn't have any bodies to hide.

quote:

Originally posted by oddball:

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was among the left-wing activists arrested Tuesday for interrupting the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Sasour entered the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building just before 9:30 a.m. EDT. She sat quietly with other anti-Kavanaugh activists until the hearing opened, at which point she loudly rebuked Republican lawmakers and urged them to adjourn. She continued to shout at senators as she was dragged from the room by multiple police officers. Several other activists brandishing signs immediately followed suit and were removed.

How the fuck did this Sharia Law loving bitch get into the hearing?! I did not watch one second of this shitshow, but did some Democrat scumbag invite this professional asshole?

Are "protesters" allowed into the chambers? How is this legal?

Here are the guidelines for attending hearings.

one of the ugliest staged moments of the hearing

Fred Guttenberg's daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting.

Sen Feinstein:






https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04...red-cnntv/index.html

Fred Guttenberg, the father of a slain Parkland student, said he had approached Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing Tuesday in an attempt to appeal to him "as a dad," but when he extended his hand he was ignored by the judge.

"I simply said, 'Hi, my name is Fred Guttenberg, I'm the father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was murdered in Parkland,' " Guttenberg told Kate Bolduan on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." "As soon as I got to the 'murdered in Parkland,' that's when you saw him turn and move and walk the other way."

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

appeal to him as a dad. right.

a complete set up

this is pretty low, but the DEMs had a real contest going for the cheapest shot / dirtiest trick today

5 Takeaways From The Circus Democrats Made Of Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS Hearing


As has been typical for the last several decades, this Supreme Court hearing was even more rancorous than the last. Here’s what we learned from the first day’s events

Federalist
Kyle Sammin

After a summer of anticipation and agitation, the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began yesterday. As has been typical for the last several decades, this Supreme Court hearing was even more rancorous than the last. Here’s what we learned from the first day’s events.

1. Protesters Are Clueless
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley called the meeting to order in the morning, but had hardly begun when loyal members of the Trump resistance showed that, as usual, they have no idea of how to behave in public. Reenacting the customs of social media in real life, they screamed, yelled, and stomped their feet even before Grassley and the other senators had a chance to say anything to which they might object.

Their quickness to act gave the game away: these protestors did not object to the content of the hearings, but to the hearings themselves.

It is unclear what they hoped to accomplish, but that is not unheard of among protesters, right or left. Since the 2016 election, opponents of the president and his agenda have excelled at making loud noises and wearing silly costumes, yet once the cosplay elements are stripped away, the concrete steps they demand are maddeningly unclear. Their agitprop, while no doubt gratifying to themselves, will never convert an opponent and might only repel an undecided observer.

Perhaps it is just a sign of the times. For all of the complaints about President Trump’s lack of decorum, the average denizen of the far left has always been less decorous than his counterpart on the right. Should we now expect the loutish manners of social media to bleed into all areas of civic life?

Things may well get worse in this regard before they get better. In any case, about two dozen protesters made enough sound and fury to get themselves removed and arrested. The atmosphere got so heated that Kavanaugh’s children had to be escorted out of the room.

2. Junior Senators Feign Cluelessness
Even before the amateur “loudmouths” (as Sen. Orrin Hatch called them) were removed, the professionals added their voices to the tumult. Scarcely had Grassley uttered a sentence when members of the committee’s Democratic minority began to talk over him.

Sen. Kamala Harris of California demanded that the hearing be adjourned even before anything of substance had been said, citing the large number of documents related to Kavanaugh’s public career that senators had yet to receive. It is not clear how Harris thought those documents, added to the already record-breaking number already produced, would affect her vote.

It’s not as though she was keeping an open mind on the nominee. Harris announced her opposition to Kavanaugh on July 9. For perspective, consider that Kavanaugh’s nomination did not even reach the Senate until July 10. Unless she thought more information might convince her to vote for Kavanaugh, even reading every document Kavanaugh has ever laid eyes on would be a waste of time.

Sens. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) added their voices to Harris’s, as did others, but Grassley ruled them out of order. (Booker and Blumenthal also opposed Kavanaugh from the moment he was nominated.)

To say the objection makes no sense is to take it at face value, when everyone knows it is a farce. Democratic senators, especially those who think they should be president, have a tough task. Unlike the more simple-minded protestors, these senators know they can do nothing to stop a Republican majority from confirming a Republican president’s nominee. Once it became clear that there would be no defections in the majority’s ranks, the game was over.

They know that, but telling their electoral base that is another matter. The Democrats are easing nicely into their Tea Party phase, just as Obama-maddened Republicans did in 2010. Telling such people their dreams can’t come true is like waving a red flag before a bull.

So, to avoid looking like sellouts, the 2020 hopefuls took on the appearance of angry bovines themselves. They know they can’t help, but they must be seen to try. It’s all nonsense, but it’s good for the fundraising.

3. Democrats Use The Same Smear Tactics Since Bork
All of this transpired even before the substance of the hearing began (there were 44 interruptions in the first hour). Growing impatient with the interruptions, Grassley refuted the idea that there was insufficient disclosure about Kavanaugh, saying that his 12 years on the federal bench give the best evidence of his jurisprudence, and noting that the last Democratic nominee, Elena Kagan, was required to produce precisely zero records from her time as solicitor general.

So the committee moved on to the part where they stare at the nominee and say what they think of him. It is one of the weirder parts of the process, something like a comedy roast, but nobody’s laughing. Instead, Kavanaugh was treated to fulsome praise of his life and career from the Republicans, and castigated for faults real and imagined by the Democrats.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who to her credit seemed embarrassed at her younger colleagues’ antics, began with the tried and true tactic of painting Kavanaugh as far outside the mainstream on abortion and gun control. Hatch parried by noting that 13 of Kavanaugh’s opinions were later adopted by the Supreme Court, a credit to his legal reasoning skills and evidence that he is no more extreme than the average Supreme Court justice.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, who like Feinstein has been here before, was similarly sedate, if inaccurate when he suggested that Kavanaugh is nuts for thinking that a sitting president could not be indicted. (He’s not, it’s a pretty normal opinion.) Apparently that wasn’t enough for the Code Pink groundlings, who interrupted Leahy’s speech, too. His fellow Democrat Dick Durbin, somewhat ungraciously, then praised the protestors as the “noise of democracy.”

4. One Senator Needs a Tin-Foil Hat
That brings us to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island). Despite the name, Whitehouse is not thought to have any designs on the executive mansion, no doubt realizing that the country is in no mood for a more aristocratic version of John Kerry. Nonetheless, he added his voice to the objections from the kiddie table earlier in the hearing, then took the opportunity to sell the audience on the sort of “connect the dots, man” theory that was once confined to vagrants’ typewritten manifestos. (Listen here, if you care to.)

Whitehouse compiled a list of 5-4 decisions which, according to him, were all won by corporate interests. These victories were all effected by a conservative court bloc that he named the “Roberts Five.” The idea that the conservatives vote as a bloc is, in itself, mad, as anyone familiar with justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy could tell you. But the real wild-eyed stuff was yet to come: Whitehouse says these machinations are all directed by the Federalist Society, a legal association that must now, presumably, replace the Illuminati in lefties’ fever dreams.

Secrets! Deep, dark ones, even! This is a grown man talking, remember, not a kid telling an extremely bureaucratic campfire story.
“Big business and partisan groups fund the Federalist Society,” Whitehouse scolded in a tone that suggested his next job would be the evil dean in a college movie, “which picked Gorsuch and now you.” He went on. “Exactly how the nominees were picked and who was in the room where it happened and who had a vote or a veto and what was said or promised, that’s all a deep dark secret.”

Secrets! Deep, dark ones, even! This is a grown man talking, remember, not a kid telling an extremely bureaucratic campfire story. He continued: “Then big business and partisan groups fund the Judicial Crisis Network which runs Dark Money political campaigns to influence Senators in confirmation votes as they’ve done for Gorsuch and now for you. Who pays millions of dollars for that and what their expectations are is a deep dark secret.”

Really? Is it really a secret that conservatives favor originalist judges and limited government in accordance with the Constitution?

Whitehouse listed many other “deep, dark secrets,” a cliché he flogged almost as hard as his new catchphrase, “the Roberts Five.” “Then, once the nominee is on the court,” he sneered, “the same business front groups with ties to the Koch Brothers”—essential to any good conspiracy theory—”and other funders of the Republican political machine file friend-of-the-Court, or amicus, briefs to signal their wishes to the Roberts Five.”

This is where we start getting into crackpot territory. The idea of amicus curiae has been around longer than the United States has and, like all briefs to the court in our adversarial legal system, is designed to suggest how the court should rule. Why should all of these possessors of “deep, dark, secrets” signal their intentions through a publicly available document rather than, say, esoteric Rosicrucian hand signals? Only Whitehouse knows.

5. Brett Kavanaugh Is A Grown-Up
Through all of the hysterics, insults, interruptions, and even Whitehouse’s mystic tales of ley lines and pod people, Kavanaugh looked on without reacting. He even managed to appear interested and to consider the import of all the calumny poured down on him from the senators’ dais.

It isn’t easy to be insulted to your face for hours with no opportunity to defend yourself, but that level of decorum and composure is what we should hope for from a nominee to the nation’s highest court. His calmness should serve, too, as an example for the residents of the festering swamps at both extremes of the political spectrum.

Extreme views and actions on the alt-right and the dirtbag left are restricted to a baleful few, but that fraction crowds out a lot of normal people and their opinions. Bad behavior and bad-faith arguments make the political process look so unsavory that many Americans tune out altogether.

Kavanaugh is a professional, and a few of the senators questioning him acted professionally yesterday, too. We need more of that, from the average citizen, to the courts, the Congress, and, yes, the White House.

In the first day’s hearings, when everyone else was talking, Kavanaugh made the biggest impact. When he was at last permitted to speak at the close of the proceedings, his words were measured and conciliatory. The country could use some more of that.

Link

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
one of the ugliest staged moments of the hearing

.....

appeal to him as a dad. right.

a complete set up

this is pretty low, but the DEMs had a real contest going for the cheapest shot / dirtiest trick today

Jesus. That's contemptible.

quote:

Originally posted by JALLEN:

5. Brett Kavanaugh Is A Grown-Up
Through all of the hysterics, insults, interruptions, and even Whitehouse’s mystic tales of ley lines and pod people, Kavanaugh looked on without reacting. He even managed to appear interested and to consider the import of all the calumny poured down on him from the senators’ dais.

It isn’t easy to be insulted to your face for hours with no opportunity to defend yourself, but that level of decorum and composure is what we should hope for from a nominee to the nation’s highest court. His calmness should serve, too, as an example for the residents of the festering swamps at both extremes of the political spectrum.

Extreme views and actions on the alt-right and the dirtbag left are restricted to a baleful few, but that fraction crowds out a lot of normal people and their opinions. Bad behavior and bad-faith arguments make the political process look so unsavory that many Americans tune out altogether.

Kavanaugh is a professional, and a few of the senators questioning him acted professionally yesterday, too. We need more of that, from the average citizen, to the courts, the Congress, and, yes, the White House.

In the first day’s hearings, when everyone else was talking, Kavanaugh made the biggest impact. When he was at last permitted to speak at the close of the proceedings, his words were measured and conciliatory. The country could use some more of that.

I must say, I really was impressed with how stoic Kavanaugh remained in the face of all that nonsense. I'm quite sure I could not have.