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BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Tricks Tricks:

I agree with you. If you look at the first page I've found it suspect since the beginning. There isn't enough real evidence to support the claim. What each person needs to take a hard look at is "Is the chance of having a sexual assaulter on the supreme court for the next 20, 30, 40 years worth it?"

And with that precedent set then all we need to do to dismiss a Supreme Court nominee is to accuse him or her of sexual assault? And even if there's not a single fucking shred of evidence then that would be enough to disqualify them?

You really think the Democrats would have gone for that with Merrick Garland?

And that's part of what needs to be considered. Is setting that precedent worth it. Kavanaugh being on the supreme court doesn't affect me, so I haven't given it much thought. I don't like the guy for his beliefs, but that's not reason enough to drag his name through the mud. I think a democrat response would have been interesting. If they allowed it through it would alienate a lot of their base. If they changed the nominee for it, then it would set precedent. In a way, republicans have it easier here. The people freaking out about Kavanaugh wouldn't vote for them anyways, they lose nothing by voting him in.

[BartSimpson]

The Democrats over the past thirty years have increasingly engaged in scorched earth tactics and for too long they got away with it. Now they've actually managed to piss off their best/last friend in the GOP, Lindsey Graham.

I hope they think this is all worth it.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The Democrats over the past thirty years have increasingly engaged in scorched earth tactics and for too long they got away with it. Now they've actually managed to piss off their best/last friend in the GOP, Lindsey Graham.

I hope they think this is all worth it.

How was Lindsey Graham a friend of the democrats?

[xerxes]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The Democrats over the past thirty years have increasingly engaged in scorched earth tactics and for too long they got away with it. Now they've actually managed to piss off their best/last friend in the GOP, Lindsey Graham.

I hope they think this is all worth it.

That *MOD EDIT* was never their friend.

And the democrats don’t do scorched earth. If they did, they’d be in power right now.

[raydan]

I have problems with Kavanaugh because of his beliefs and what he's done in the past... and after listening to his testimony on the assault accusations, I just don't see someone who's telling the truth.

[martin14]

raydan raydan:

I have problems with Kavanaugh because of his beliefs and what he's done in the past... and after listening to his testimony on the assault accusations, I just don't see someone who's telling the truth.

So, you prefer to believe this ?










Please, don't read the report. Your ovaries will hurt.

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The Democrats over the past thirty years have increasingly engaged in scorched earth tactics and for too long they got away with it. Now they've actually managed to piss off their best/last friend in the GOP, Lindsey Graham.

I hope they think this is all worth it.

That *MOD EDIT* was never their friend.

And the democrats don’t do scorched earth. If they did, they’d be in power right now.

In the past I've often referred to Lindsey Graham as 'Linda' in no small part due to his kissing up to the same Democrats he referred to as his friends during the Kavanaugh hearings.

I only hope he isn't their friend anymore.

And the Democrats DO scorched earth. That's why they are in this issue with no legitimate voice so their only recourse is to play sophomoric and petulant games in the US Senate.

They upended over a century of Senate rules during their last stint in power and those moves were all designed to shut the minority party out of the process of making law.

Now they're the minority party and they've fucked themselves with their own weapons.

Serves them right.

And if the GOP has a fucking spine they'll wait for the Democrats to restore the rules that the Democrats got rid of.

And in the meantime they need to ignore the craven Democrats and make sure that the bastards don't do to the next court nominee what the fuckers did to this one.

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Dems accused of moving goalposts on Kavanaugh after FBI probe ordered
By Alex Pappas | Fox News

Dems suggest more investigations if Kavanaugh is seated
Constitutional law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley explains why the suggestion is 'exceedingly dangerous.'
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee used last week’s hearing over the accusations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to push a unified message: the FBI must investigate the allegations.
“If you’re very confident of your position, and you appear to be, why aren’t you also asking the FBI to investigate these claims?” California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee, pressed Kavanaugh during Thursday’s tense hearing. The next day, at GOP Sen. Jeff Flake's urging, President Trump ordered the FBI to open such a "supplemental" background investigation.
But now, many Democrats are arguing that the probe is not enough, prompting accusations from Republicans that they're already moving the goalposts.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a weekend letter that the FBI shouldn’t just probe the accusations – but should also conduct an investigation into whether Kavanaugh was honest during his hearing. He called for investigating whether Kavanaugh committed perjury, "given the very serious fact that lying to Congress is a federal crime."
"A fundamental question the FBI can help answer is whether Judge Kavanaugh has been truthful with the committee,” Sanders said. “This goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court.”
In other cases, Democrats who enthusiastically called for an FBI investigation last week now seem to be downplaying it.
“Yes, of course there should be an FBI investigation,” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted Friday. “But whatever they find doesn’t change the fact that Kavanaugh, especially after his performance yesterday, is the most dangerous Supreme Court pick of our lifetime.”
Republicans for days had resisted a new FBI investigation into the allegations. But Trump's order came after several undecided Republican senators -- namely, Flake -- whose votes are needed to confirm Kavanaugh called for a weeklong FBI probe before a floor vote.
“I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file," Trump said in a statement. "As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.”
Kavanaugh, who has denied all the allegations, said in a statement he will "cooperate" with the FBI.
Flake himself called for the FBI to wrap up its investigation in a week or less, while investigating just the accusations. But Democrats have since cried foul over those limits – saying the FBI should be not be restricted in time or subject.
“No artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation," an attorney for Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford, Debra S. Katz, said in a Friday statement.
Left-leaning journalists also have complained that the investigation won’t focus enough on Kavanaugh’s drinking habits in high school and college.
“It’s not just that they aren’t allowed to investigate the third accuser’s claims,” NBC’s Ken Dilanian tweeted. “They also won’t look into his drinking at Yale or pull Mark Judge’s employment records or take other basic investigative steps, we are told.”
CNBC’s John Harwood argued on Twitter, “his drinking relates directly to a) sexual misconduct he’s accused of from his high school/college days, and b) the truthfulness of his sworn testimony last week.”
Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton dismissed those calls, suggesting the FBI likely has asked about Kavanaugh’s drinking in previous background investigations – as is standard practice.
“For goalpost-moving Democrats & your media wing,” Cotton tweeted. “I’ve been interviewed many times for FBI background checks for classmates, soldiers, & nominees. Every time, agent asked about any drinking problems. You really think FBI missed that in SIX background checks of Judge Kavanaugh?”
Over the weekend, a Yale friend of Kavanaugh’s, Charles Ludington, said in a statement he is “deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale.” He said Kavanaugh was a “frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker,” and he planned to give a statement to the FBI saying so.
Not all Democrats have dismissed the newly ordered FBI probe outright, however.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, who played an instrumental role in getting Flake to back the probe, said he’s optimistic new information will be learned as a result of the investigation.
“I think we will be in a different place,” Coons said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday. “Because lots of survivors around the country will feel that Dr. Ford’s story was heard and respected and further investigated.”
It could also go the other way, he acknowledged.
“We may well be in a different place a week from now because Judge Kavanaugh and his family may well have had exculpatory evidence brought forward,” he said.

The Dems must have all been in Slithering house at Hogwarts.

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Kavanaugh Accuser Lied About Background, Has History Of Making Sexual Misconduct Claims In Workplace, Report Says
By Ryan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
September 30, 2018

One of the women who has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct from over 30 years ago allegedly has an extensive history of making sexual misconduct claims in the workplace and has lied about her background to employers.
Julie Swetnick, who is represented by sensationalist Democratic lawyer Michael Avenatti, faced serious allegations of misconduct in a lawsuit brought by Portland-based Webtrends, a company where she was employed for a few months in 2000.
Webtrends said in the lawsuit that Swetnick claimed that she graduated from Johns Hopkins University and that the company subsequently learned that the university had no records of her ever attending, and that she also made false claims about her work experience. OregonLive reports:
The suit also alleges Swetnick "engaged in unwelcome, sexually offensive conduct" while at Webtrends and "made false and retaliatory allegations that other co-workers had engaged in inappropriate conduct toward her."
The suit alleges Swetnick "engaged in unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct" directed at two male employees during a business lunch, with Webtrends customers present. Swetnick claimed two other employees had sexually harassed her, according to the suit.
The tech company said that Swetnick engaged in misconduct but never found any evidence to corroborate any of the allegations she made against her coworkers.
Webtrends also said that Swetnick had taken a medical leave of absence while simultaneously collecting unemployment benefits in Washington, D.C. The company added that she threatened legal action against the company over her unsubstantiated claims of workplace harassment.
This is only the latest accusation that has been made public about Swetnick that raises serious concerns about her credibility as a witness against Kavanaugh.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Swetnick sued New York Life Insurance Co. over a sexual misconduct claim using a law firm run by Debra Katz, the lawyer who is representing Christine Blasey Ford, one of Kavanaugh's other accusers.
Politico also reported last week that Swetnick, who has had her fair share of problems with the IRS, had a restraining order filed against her by her ex-boyfriend, Richard Vinneccy, who said, "She’s not credible at all. Not at all."
Swetnick claimed that Kavanaugh participated in a gang-rape ring that ran trains on drugged girls at parties while he was a sophomore in high school and that she, as an adult in college, attended around ten of these parties with high schoolers and that she never reported the alleged crimes that were being committed against the minors.
Avenatti responded to the allegations against his client in the OregonLive report as being "Complete bogus."

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xerxes xerxes:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The Democrats over the past thirty years have increasingly engaged in scorched earth tactics and for too long they got away with it. Now they've actually managed to piss off their best/last friend in the GOP, Lindsey Graham.

I hope they think this is all worth it.

That *MOD EDIT* was never their friend.

And the democrats don’t do scorched earth. If they did, they’d be in power right now.

I read that before the edit, no worse than what has been levied against others, so why the edit? We back on the train of civility?

[BRAH]

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[BartSimpson]

Looks like the show trial had a negative impact on the Democrats chances in November.

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Kavanaugh Effect? Quinnipiac Shows Dem Generic Ballot Lead Cut In Half In A Month

Does this represent a natural momentum swing as voters get more engaged ahead of the midterms, or evidence of something more? Quinnipiac has produced some of the largest gaps in the aggregated polling on the generic congressional ballot this cycle. Their previous poll, taken at the beginning of September, showed Republicans trailing by a disastrous 14 points with two months to go before the midterms.

Today, it’s seven points — among registered voters:

Five weeks before the Midterm Elections, 49 percent of American voters back the Democratic candidate in their local race for the U.S. House of Representatives and 42 percent support the Republican candidate, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

This compares to the results of a September 12 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University National Poll, showing Democrats with a 52 – 38 percent lead. …

“The numbers suggest the big blue wave may have lost some of its momentum as House races tighten. President Donald Trump’s approval remains deeply in the red,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Bear in mind that the Q-poll’s margin of error is ±3.7%. The movement for either party falls right around the MoE — three points down for Democrats, four points up for Republicans. It’s possible that this is statistical noise, but it doesn’t seem likely. Also worth noting: this is the lowest level polled for Democrats in the Quinnipiac series since at least the first week of July, after which they have remained at 50% or above until now. It also ties the highest level achieved by Republicans in the series from mid-August.

This certainly indicates some movement off the norm, at least in the Q-poll. And it may not actually indicate a turnout model change, either, as Quinnipiac still isn’t applying a likely-voter model to its polling. This change has occurred in the larger population of registered voters, suggesting that a likely-voter model might have shown more momentum in the GOP’s direction.

Does this represent a Kavanaugh effect? The polling for this took place between Thursday and Sunday, meaning that three of the four days came after the televised hearings in which Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified, a hearing obsessively covered by the national news media. One might have expected Democrats to get a bump coming out of that hearing, especially given the tenor of the coverage it received. Instead, the momentum shifted in the other direction even among the wider population. It’s tough to directly correlate that to Kavanaugh, since Quinnipiac didn’t bother to ask any questions on the issue, but it’s tough to assume that it had no impact either.

A D+7 result puts Quinnipiac firmly in the range of other major pollsters.

[raydan]

Nation Urged To Be Extra Sensitive To Men Reliving Trauma Of Not Getting Something

https://www.theonion.com/nation-urged-t ... 1829447828

[BartSimpson]

Oopsie, the centrist New Hampshire Journal is reporting that the Democrat's Kavanaugh circus is hurting Democrats who thought they had the upcoming election in the bag:

https://www.insidesources.com/the-kavan ... -campaign/

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The Kavanaugh Controversy Is Killing Molly Kelly’s Campaign

One of the unintended consequences of the noisy, national debate over Judge Brett Kavanaugh is the impact it’s having on elections taking place far from Washington, DC. And for Molly Kelly’s gubernatorial campaign, those consequences are, surprisingly, not good.

On paper, an issue that energizes the Democratic base and women voters—the two key targets of the Kelly campaign—would seem like a good thing. Every New Hampshire Democrat who decides they’re going to cast an anti-GOP protest vote this November is a vote for Molly Kelly. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that Molly Kelly already had those votes in the bag. Angry, energized Democrats didn’t need an allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh. They already have the confirmed “p—y grabber” in the White House, Donald Trump. Polls showed high Democratic motivation for the midterms weeks before Democrats made the Kavanaugh allegations public.

Republican enthusiasm, on the other hand, had been lagging. In July, the Washington Post-Schar School poll found that 58 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters were pumped up about voting in the midterm election, while only 38 percent of GOP voters said the same.

Not anymore. A new Gallup poll puts partisan turnout at 61 percent among Democrats/leaners and 58 percent for Republicans. “Democrats and Republicans are now expressing a fairly high certainty of voting, with 72 percent and 70 percent, respectively, saying they are absolutely certain they will vote in November,” says Lydia Saad of Gallup.

The challenge for Molly Kelly is that, because there are slightly more registered Republicans than Democrats in New Hampshire, any issue that drives up net turnout means driving up Republican turnout. That doesn’t mean some Republican women won’t vote Molly Kelly. Some certainly will. But more Republicans is a net negative for any Democratic campaign.

“The Kavanaugh situation is motivating lower propensity Republican and undeclared voters to get to the polls. The Democrats’ and media’s handling of this story has inflamed conservatives and many moderates,” says veteran New Hampshire Republican Bryan Gould.

Then there are the mechanics of running a campaign as a challenger against a popular incumbent. No public polls have shown Kelly with a lead, and Sununu’s approval/disapproval rating has been at least +20 in every poll. Even in the new ARG poll that has Kelly within 5 has Sununu’s approval at 56-28 percent.

The Kelly campaign needs the political ground to shake, to get voters to take a different look at Gov. Chris Sununu and the campaign. When every political conversation begins and ends with the word “Kavanaugh,” that’s hard to do.

“It looks like, for the moment, the Kavanaugh story has frozen the Kelly campaign in place–never good news for a challenger who’s trailing,” said longtime GOP consultant David Carney. “Of course that could all change, based on how the Kavanaugh story plays out.”

“And where is the Democratic Governor’s Association?” Carney asks. “Their silence is deafening.”

You can’t say Molly Kelly isn’t trying. She is pushing hard to get voters to link Sununu, Trump and Kavanaugh. She’s hitting Sununu hard over his letter endorsing Kavanaugh earlier this summer, running online ads reminding voters of the governor’s support for the SCOTUS nominee.

So far, however, it hasn’t stuck. The same Morning Consult polls that find President Trump under water in New Hampshire by double digits also named Sununu the 4th most popular governor in America. The NHJournal poll in July put Trump’s approval at 41 percent but Sununu’s up at 55 percent. The available data suggest that New Hampshire voters are unwilling to label Sununu a “Trump Republican.”

For his part, Sununu has carefully navigated the Kavanaugh by closely following the lead of moderate GOP Senator Susan Collins. As long as he stays in her political slip stream, he’s a hard target for Kelly to hit.

The Kavanaugh issue isn’t settled. It’s a political hand grenade that could still explode on the GOP—and all Republican candidates. And neither Gov. Sununu nor Molly Kelly have even hit the airwaves in the general election ye, so this race is far from over.

But for the moment, every day the Kavanaugh confirmation dominates the political conversation in the Granite State is another day Kelly can’t get her message out to potential crossover voters she needs to win.

“It’s quiet out there right now,” a source close to the Sununu campaign tells NHJournal. “And quiet is good.”

[BartSimpson]

Trump opened fire on one of the Democrats attacking Kavanaugh and it is SAVAGE!!!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/TFHj5DClq11y/