jkcerda on 1/10/2018 at 14:50
HER OWN FRIEND does not remember any of what she described, anyone who can put 2 +2 can see the holes in her story.
Tocky on 1/10/2018 at 14:54
Frankly I'm surprised the prosecutor would so slant the testimony. It damages her reputation. Of course that is what she was hired to do but I guess I still expected a shade more integrity. Her FRIEND did not suffer what SHE did and so would not recall. Do YOU recall every party you attended as a teen? Okay, I mean if you were at least popular enough to have attended more than a handful. I wouldn't even call four people a party. I would call it a weekend.
jkcerda on 1/10/2018 at 15:59
you think it's slanted because you favor Ford.................. her friend never even remembers meeting Kav. it's all in Fords head.
nbohr1more on 1/10/2018 at 16:35
Quote Posted by Trance
He doesn't need to be lying. He can just be wrong.
Skip Folden, independent analyst, retired IBM Program Manager for Information Technology US (Associate VIPS)
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)
Larry C Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
Michael S. Kearns, Air Force Intelligence Officer (Ret.), Master SERE Resistance to Interrogation Instructor
John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Linda Lewis, WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.)
Lisa Ling, TSgt USAF (ret.) (associate VIPS)
Edward Loomis, Jr., former NSA Technical Director for the Office of Signals Processing
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former U.S. Army Infantry/Intelligence officer and CIA analyst
Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA
Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
Cian Westmoreland, former USAF Radio Frequency Transmission Systems Technician and Unmanned Aircraft Systems whistleblower (Associate VIPS)
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA
Sarah G. Wilton, Intelligence Officer, DIA (ret.); Commander, US Naval Reserve (ret.)
Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat
Kevin Shipp (Former CIA)
Julian Assange
Kim Dot Com
Along with Bill Binney. These people are "wrong"?
Draxil on 1/10/2018 at 23:26
Do you remember that irritating asshat kid from your youth that you occasionally were thrust into playing with because your moms were friends? The kid you locked your bedroom door against, because he would either break or steal your favorite stuff? The kid who complained that the game was unfair when you beat him, and imposed new rules like "don't use M. Bison" or "No, I had my fingers crossed so I'm safe" or "Stop using the gluon-gun"? And then, when you beat him with Zangief, or tagged him running backwards, or used nothing but the glock or snarks, he still found a reason to complain and move the goal posts to where he didn't lose. That's the democrats in this ridiculously juvenile farce of a confirmation hearing.
In reality, that little punk-bitch kid needed to be E. Honda-quick-fisted to oblivion, tagged and pounded, or relentlessly hacked to death with a crowbar just to show him what a miserable loser he really was. That's what the Republicans have lacked the spine to do. They can't win this game. It was about sexual assault allegations when the confirmation hearings went against the democrats. Then, with their witness's credibility shredded, it was about the other even less credible witnesses. Or about Kavanaugh's
high school drinking and yearbook. Or judicial temperament. Or about the lack of an FBI investigation. Or about limitations on the FBI investigation. The goal posts are constantly moving, because there's not even the facade of justice or fairness in this charade anymore.
Good ol' "Chrissy" Ford was part of a culture of frequently drunk and promiscuous girls in her (
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/09/27/blasey_ford_yearbooks.html) highschool days. Her credibility, which was gently filleted by Ms. Mitchell's questions and report, would have been brutally shredded if Republicans had had the spine to ask her questions on par with the questions asked of Kavanaugh. I think her parents and siblings, none of whom signed a letter of support for her, should be subpoenaed to testify to her character and behavior in her highschool days. My bet would be that she was the wild child, the progressive radical raised by conservative Republicans, who took every shot and bedded every boy she could in rebellion against her parents. "Ms. Ford, is it true you drove the car into a garage and claimed that it was moving? Ms Ford, how frequently did you drink? Ms. Ford, is it true, as alleged, that you had 54 sexual partners before entering college? Ms. Ford, why won't you give us your therapy notes? And, goddamit Ms. Ford, if what you allege is true, then
why don't you press charges against Kavanaugh in the appropriate jurisdiction?"
Because none of it's true, and no one with an ounce of honesty in their character believes that any of this carefully timed and orchestrated smear campaign has anything to do with anything other than keeping the horribly flawed
Roe v. Wade the law of the land.
As for judicial temperament? Please. The indispensable (
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/brett-kavanaugh-left-attacks-scotus-nominees-temperament/) Andrew McCarthy
Quote:
Brett Kavanaugh has been a judge for a dozen years on one of the most important judicial tribunals in the country, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In that office, not only has he issued over 300 opinions, which have been broadly admired for their craftsmanship and heavily relied on by the Supreme Court and other federal courts; he has also been widely praised for his judicial temperament by litigants, colleagues, and bar associations. The diverse group of clerks he has mentored has been in high demand for Supreme Court clerkships and other distinguished positions in the legal profession.
His judicial temperament could not be more apparent.
By contrast, here is Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking about Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, two years ago:
He is a faker. He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. . . . How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns?
Guy Benson reminds us of some similarly injudicious remarks by Justice Ginsburg:
In a New York Times interview, Ginsburg doesn't hold a thing back when it comes to the 2016 election. “I can't imagine what this place would be — I can't imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president. . . . For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don't even want to contemplate that.” Ginsburg also recalled something her late husband said about such matters: “Now it's time for us to move to New Zealand.”
If they practiced consistency, Kavanaugh's critics would be calling for Ginsburg to step down, or at the very least to recuse herself from any case in which a component of the Trump administration is a party before the Court. But, of course, she continues to participate fully, and Kavanaugh's critics are glad of it — they despise Trump as much as she does. Their sky-is-falling attack on Kavanaugh's character is a reflection of Ginsburg's sky-is-falling forecast of the Trump presidency and its portents for the Court.
That is, it's all political.
Republicans should tell the Democrats to suck it, and confirm him.
Pyrian on 1/10/2018 at 23:50
Quote:
He is a faker. He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.
Well, that's just the plain facts. Like, you can't even
try to defend Trump (and his constant and unrelenting confirmation of exactly what you're quoting), and you can't even
try to defend Kav and his multi-perjurial partisan-conspiracy-slinging, either. Just throw about some more whataboutism and accusations of partisanship that's bluntly hypocritical (how'd that Garland nomination go oh that's right it didn't even start) and falls on its face because despite having an entire lifetime to dig into to look for whataboutisms you STILL can't match Kav's performance of a single afternoon.
Nicker on 2/10/2018 at 01:34
That's funny, Draxil. I thought you were ripping on Trump there with your autobiographical musings, because that's exactly who that whiny, entitled little shit sounded like.
Quote:
Because none of it's true, and no one with an ounce of honesty in their character believes that any of this carefully timed and orchestrated smear campaign has anything to do with anything other than keeping the horribly flawed Roe v. Wade the law of the land.
And you know this how? Do you share with Vae and JK, that same mystical power to transmute opinion into fact?
Roe vs Wade has given women control over their own bodies. Who the fuck are you to call it flawed?
icemann on 2/10/2018 at 02:22
This goes to show, that matters like this should NEVER be made public knowledge until AFTER the outcome has been decided, and even then only when a guilty verdict is made. Yes I know this isn't court, it's a senate thing.
But if she was so sure he'd done it, then why only at the senate enquiry and not lay actual charges? That sounds like an attempt to ruin someone to me.
