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Originally posted by grumpy1:
This statement by Chuck Grassley is encouraging and hopefully they will move to a full senate vote soon rather than get bogged down by more preposterous allegations.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...ithholding-info.html

"Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, late Sunday slammed Senate Democrats for withholding information from the committee regarding new sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The Iowa Republican said the committee will attempt to evaluate the new claims, but said in a statement “it appears that they [Democrats] are more interested in a political takedown" than “pursing allegations through a bipartisan and professional investigative process.”

His office released the statement after two new allegations emerged against Kavanaugh."

Hopefully someone pulled Grassley's pants down and showed him that he still has a pair of balls.

Every time Grassley opens his mouth, I cringe.

It's like watching a schoolyard wimp pushed around by jeering bullies.

My bet is that today President Donald J. Trump directly enters this pathetic scene, via tweets or a direct quote to the press, and tells Grassley to man up.

This is all so obscene. How these people, the democrats, are not embarrassed by this behavior is something I will never understand. Shameful to say the least.

At this point, waiting for the final confirmation of Kavanaugh is starting to feel like the buildup to the 2016 election. I'm fired up but anxious despite myself. More than anything right now I want to see that man confirmed. If that doesn't happen, I'll be apoplectic.

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My bet is that today President Donald J. Trump directly enters this pathetic scene, via tweets or a direct quote to the press, and tells Grassley to man up.

Grassley has been played. You can't play nice with leftists. They have no rules, and they play to win. I hope Grassley has learned that.
I agree, it's time for Grassley to man up. He has set multiple deadlines, and yet kept backing down. The Committee had a process and a timeline... as chairman, it's Grassley's job to stick to it.

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Originally posted by R K9 J:
President Trump should ask the FBI to investigate … the two (now possibly three) accusers. Sitting across a table from an FBI agent with the threat that if what they are saying is not true could send to jail may be enough for them to stop this nonsense.

Once again, the FBI has NO AUTHORITY to "investigate" by federal statue. NONE. The FBI actually can't investigate anything that it wants. That's exhibit A. Exhibit B is that the statue of limitations on these allegations ran out, oh lets say 35 years ago. So, that means that no prosecution could occur even if they found videos of Kavanaugh dry humping Ford (blech) on laser disk or beta. That means this is nothing more than a political witch hunt that we are using federal resources for, that just happens to be beneficial for us this time. Not a great idea, by any stretch of the imagination. If these allegations happened today and was reported to a local RA, they would call the local SO or PD and refer the case to them.

I keep reading about how people want the FBI to "investigate" but they do not have jurisdiction in the matters to which have been made up by these women. I can't tell you how bad an idea it is to order a federal LE investigatory arm to investigate misdemeanor unwanted sexual contact allegations when there is a political whim. Just because we want this "investigation" this time, doesn't mean that the left will use the FBI as a political tool against us. I mean, that could never happen, right?

Anyone who thinks the FBI can investigate misdemeanor unwanted juvenile sexual contact, missing dogs, or loud music in a housing complex, I ask you to show me the US code that allows it. Cause if that is the case, I'm calling the RA today to inform them that they need to start picking up their end of my agencies call volume because these calls are now federal.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
This is all so obscene. How these people, the democrats, are not embarrassed by this behavior is something I will never understand. Shameful to say the least.

At this point, waiting for the final confirmation of Kavanaugh is starting to feel like the buildup to the 2016 election. I'm fired up but anxious despite myself. More than anything right now I want to see that man confirmed. If that doesn't happen, I'll be apoplectic.

The left is morally bankrupt; those that are morally bankrupt are incapable of shame. This is about a continued loss of power, and the prospect of seeing that power slip further and further away with every passing appointment. As we can see, they will do ANYTHING to try and restore something approaching equality, and eventually, superiority.

We will win. While the delay sickens me (capitulating to the lefts demands always does), I'm convinced that bulling ahead with the confirmation out of hand will give the impression to any democrats riding the fence that the conservatives are not "being fair and open minded". This lying bitch will fail in the hearings when all the "fuzzy" details are picked apart, and she herself states that she cannot recall pertinent facts.

If the left tries to stall beyond that, everyone that still entertains the notion that they are doing what they are doing for the sake of fairness will see that this is not the case. And if the left is frightened now, imagine how they will feel with the impending loss of Ginsburg.

The term "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" is not expressly defined.
Therefore, it's up to the Senate to decide what it means.

I think this has gone on long enough. It's way past what I think was intended by Advice and Consent. They have already had hearings for that... It's time for Grassley and McConnell to man up.

Who runs the Senate? Who sets the rules?


Article. II.

Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

I think we are at the point of telling the Dems, unless you have pictures, video, or DNA, STFU and we are moving forward.

The GOP’s Spine of Silly Putty
- Brandon J. Weichert

Once again those in the weak-kneed majority think Democrats run Congress and the country.

The Republicans in Congress prove yet again how hapless they are, this time in the confirmation battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. Just as with so much in American politics today, the Republicans have the power to implement most of their agenda. Yet, their implacable left-wing foes use chicanery and guile to get the Republicans to over-analyze their way to defeat. It works like a charm every time!

Of course, the Leftists do have a powerful platform: their allies control the media, Pop Culture, academia, and, as recently proven with the “Deep State,” they control the federal bureaucracy as well. But, every time I hear my fellow right-wingers kvetch about the left-wing control over society’s “transmission belts,” I’m reminded of Alec Baldwin’s tour de force performance in Glengarry Glen Ross. In Baldwin’s penultimate scene, Ed Harris’s character complains to Baldwin that their sales leads are weak. To which, Baldwin deftly replies, “You’re weak!”

The GOP, Not the DNC, Holds Power

The Republican Party controls the elected offices that matter. Yet, they continue acting as though the Democrats are running the country. As surprising as it may sound, the Constitution ultimately recognizes only the elected leadership in the government. The elected Republicans should ignore the yelping poodles of the powerless Left and press on with their agenda before the Left figures out a way to take that power back (believe me, it has been the Left’s obsession since November 2016).

Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination should have been an open-and-shut case. And, true to form, the Republicans in Congress — particularly the Senate — are mucking it up with their inherent weakness. The Left has done everything it can to stymie the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: They whined their way through the first day of the hearing; threatened the Kavanaugh family; and have now placed Brett Kavanaugh on the same level as former President Bill Clinton, by claiming that, at the age of 17, Kavanaugh raped a 15-year-old classmate while attending the prestigious Georgetown Prep School in Maryland.

The #MeToo Movement has been called into action and it has had the stultifying results that the DNC was hoping for. The supposedly “powerful” chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), demanded last week that Kavanaugh’s accuser come forward and testify before the committee. Naturally, Kavanaugh’s accuser has refused. Not to worry, though, when Grassley’s deadline came-and-went, he backed down, and stated that the Senate was willing to listen to Kavanaugh’s accuser whenever she deigned to show up.

In reality, the Republicans in Congress have convinced themselves that if they don’t kowtow to this unwilling accuser then the election of 2018 will play out as the election of 1992 — the so-called “Year of the Woman” — played out, which swept George H.W. Bush out of power and put the Democrats in charge. It is weakness masked as conventional wisdom; the sort that’s embraced by similarly weak men who’ve held office for too long, and do not wish to “rock the boat” too much. This conventional wisdom must be constantly challenged by the Right, if the GOP is to ever make a lasting mark on the politics and governing institutions of the country.

Meanwhile, like any innocent man wrongly accused, Kavanaugh has issued a categorical denial to these unfounded claims and has expressed his willingness to address such accusations during the confirmation process (you can be sure that, when pressed, Judge Kavanaugh will not quibble about the definition of the word “is”). Although, according to Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the Senate should simply believe Kavanaugh’s accuser “because she’s telling the truth.” Gee, thanks, Kirsten — too bad your old pal Harvey Weinstein is a sex offender; you could’ve used more of his money to fund your craven quest for the presidency!

Gillibrand’s circular logic has been the dominant thought process on the Left for years. It’s a patently absurd claim — made all the more absurd by the Congressional Republicans’ unwillingness to call out such claims whenever it can.

Brett Kavanaugh’s “Crime”

And, we mustn’t forget why the Left is fighting so hard against Kavanaugh’s nomination. Yes, they fear that his nomination will spell the end of Roe v. Wade (the Democrats’ form of worship is, like the barbarians of old, child sacrifice). It’s also about other Democratic Party shibboleths that were forced upon the American voter by the Supreme Court in decades past. And, we cannot forget that any chance to stop Trump is enough of a reason to destroy Kavanaugh.

But, there’s something more. It’s Brett Kavanaugh himself.

You see, in his earliest years practicing law, Judge Kavanaugh was a key driver of the Ken Starr special prosecution against former President Bill Clinton. It was Kavanaugh who zealously pushed against Clinton and the Democrats. After all, Clinton had lied under oath (which was the real cause of impeachment, not the fact that he had an extramarital affair). The Democrats, like the mob, never forget or forgive those who have even slightly wronged them in the past — this is especially true when those who wronged them attempted to take the Left’s coveted power away; the power to totally transform society from the top-down.

Kavanaugh’s role in the Clinton impeachment hearings explains why it took four yearsto get him on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was nominated to the position in 2003 by former President George W. Bush, but did not take his seat until 2006, after the Republicans and Democrats negotiated to get him on the bench. While serving on that court, Kavanaugh distinguished himself as a reliable jurist whose loyalty was only to the law. He received the second-highest conservative rating of anyone on the D.C. Circuit. During his nomination hearing to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh was also granted the American Bar Association’s highest honor (for the uninitiated, the ABA is not known for its political conservatism).

Yet, now, in the proverbial eleventh hour of his nomination, the Democrats trot out these specious claims of past sexual assault. In this, the Democrats prove that theirs is the more ironic of the two political parties: trying to hoist Kavanaugh up with similar claims that he helped to make against former President Clinton.

The only group that can stop this travesty are the Congressional Republicans... and they’re the one group who have silly putty for backbones.

https://spectator.org/the-gops-spine-of-silly-putty/

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Originally posted by R K9 J:
President Trump should ask the FBI to investigate … the two (now possibly three) accusers. Sitting across a table from an FBI agent with the threat that if what they are saying is not true could send to jail may be enough for them to stop this nonsense.

Why ask the FBI to investigate?

Those guys have investigated Kavanaugh 6 or 7 times in the last ~20 years and came up with nothing, with all these gross improprieties going on right under their noses.

It makes one wonder if we have an entire government bureaucracy of perverts, alcoholics, security risks and worse, all cleared by these incompetent buffoons.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
I think we are at the point of telling the Dems, unless you have pictures, video,AND or DNA, STFU and we are moving forward.

FIFY.

I have purposely not dug too deep into the latest bullshit, but Kavanaugh will be confirmed. The election of Trump was in large part due to the Supreme Court, and the leaders of the party know this; they are not trying to swing over liberal votes, but hold onto the Trump voters.

I'm just going to be patient, not wallow into this circus, and wait for the confirmation.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
The term "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" is not expressly defined.
Therefore, it's up to the Senate to decide what it means.

I think this has gone on long enough. It's way past what I think was intended by Advice and Consent. They have already had hearings for that... It's time for Grassley and McConnell to man up.

Who runs the Senate? Who sets the rules?

A majority of the Senators. ~240 years of tradition and precedence.

Keep in mind that the incentives and intentions of Senators are not necessarily aligned. They have a view towards maintaining the power each has, being re-elected, their peculiar views of the national interests, their state values and culture, etc.

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It makes one wonder if we have an entire government bureaucracy of perverts, alcoholics, security risks and worse, all cleared by these incompetent buffoons.

Sometimes it seems the JerrySpringer.gov channel is the only program on line. At least for the DNC play list.

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A majority of the Senators. ~240 years of tradition and precedence.

Even RBG knows the process for confirmation has changed for the worse.
~240 years of tradition and precedence?
That was thrown out with Anita Hill's accusations and the 'high-tech lynching' of Clarence Thomas.

I would still like to know who used the “special congressional fund”, that pays off women for harassment. Also, who approved of this fund, and where the 18 million dollars spent so far went.

IMO, what needs to be done here is to bring these "accusers" to DC, put them under oath, making sure they understand that their statements will be investigated by law enforcement officials.

Make sure they know they will be prosecuted for perjury, at the least, if they lie.

Quit playing around with these idiots! Give them 24 hours to appear in DC and if they do not appear, send the US marshals to take them into custody and bring them to DC.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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A majority of the Senators. ~240 years of tradition and precedence.

Even RBG knows the process for confirmation has changed for the worse.
~240 years of tradition and precedence?
That was thrown out with Anita Hill's accusations and the 'high-tech lynching' of Clarence Thomas.

You asked who ran the Senate.

The lesson from the Thomas confirmation was that pube hairs on Coke cans and a few lewd comments don’t get the job done. Thomas is the senior justice now.

The left has several generations of script writers producing movie and tv fiction. This is child’s play.

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Originally posted by nighthawk:
I would still like to know who used the “special congressional fund”, that pays off women for harassment. Also, who approved of this fund, and where the 18 million dollars spent so far went.

That must be classified (embarrassment) information.

Can you imagine how the guys and gals on Trump’s short list have been sleeping the last week or so?