Ruminations on the Kavanaugh SCOTUS
Hearings/Nomination
The left’s reaction to their failure to stop the Kavanaugh
confirmation to the SCOTUS was the same as their reaction to their loss of the
presidential election to Donald Trump in November of 2016. In both instances, the leftists first
responded with interminable yelling, screaming and spitting at their perceived
opponents, in the post-Kavanaugh case, U.S Senators and their staff. This escalated to left wing mobs taking to
the streets, attempting to damage government office buildings, impeding normal activities
and traffic, and accosting government staff and workers at restaurants, public
places and their homes.
Protests are a first amendment right in the U.S. Violence in the streets and threats to
individuals involved in their daily activities are not first amendment
protests. They are illegal leftist mob transgressions
against society. All that are missing are the red banners and slogans of
anarchy and communism. In some cases, they have been replaced by the black ski
masks and flags of the antifa and blm thugs.
This unhinged mob activity by the left, coupled with their
well-advertised and well-funded move even further left than normal, toward democrat-socialism,
(a la Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez),
has to trigger alarm in the U.S. electorate prior to the mid-term
elections in November, 2018.
The Kavanaugh inquisition by the leftists, complete with
false accusations and character assassination, has further exacerbated the already
deep divisions in the country. I cannot
help observing that the reactions of the leftists to their loss in the matter,
with the republicans (including Trump) standing fast, and with judge Kavanaugh’s ascension to the SCOTUS,
was exactly the same as when the leftists lost the 2016 presidential
election. This includes threats of
impeachment, threats of violence, inflammatory rhetoric in the mainstream media
and impediments to the senate doing its job.
Protests are a first amendment right, but protests don’t include threats
and mob action against government officials and their families in restaurants,
in their offices or at their homes.
Contrast this mob behavior and the verbiage of Schumer,
Feinstein, Hirono, “Spartacus”, Kamela Harris and others, to the mild civil
pronouncements of those old white republican senators like Grassley, McConnell
et al, - and the positive, neutral view of Kavanaugh himself, after what was
done to him and his family. The leftists
even tried to denigrate the ceremonial white house swearing in ceremony as
something dastardly. As after the 2016
election, what unbelievably sore losers, who will not accept results within the
lawful system!
Other than the elevation of Judge Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS,
another positive result of this whole disturbing confirmation process is that
it seems to have awakened that sleeping giant of American politics, Nixon’s
“silent majority”, unobtrusive republicans and independents that don’t fail to
see and act upon, and vote against, egregious bias, bigotry and unfairness.
All the yelling and wailing and violence is backed and
funded by activist groups like the Soros crowd.
Paid young socialists may make a lot of noise, but will they vote in the
midterms?
Now that one of the most qualified judges in the country has
been approved for the SCOTUS, after being dragged through the lies, accusations
and innuendoes of the democratic members of the Judicial Committee and senate,
the mainstream media, their partners in the crime and their willing or
unwilling pawns in the process. it is time to pay the piper.
Dianne Feinstein and her staff, the unscrupulous architects
of the hatchet job on Judge Kavanaugh, should be censured by her senate
colleagues, but this will most likely not happen in this 51-49 senate. She should also be voted out of office, but
this is hardly likely in her “sanctuary” People’s Republic of California.
Christine Blasey Ford was treated like a Faberge egg
throughout this process, to quote Kellyanne Conway, notwithstanding the fact
that Ford and her democrat activist lawyers could not produce one iota of
corroboration to prove her “100 percent” accusation that a 17 year old Brett
Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. I’ll
go ahead and say what everyone is afraid to say in this #metoo
environment. Christine Ford, wittingly
or unwittingly, lied to congress under oath.
This is a felony, and also she can also be sued for slander in the civil
courts for her false accusations. Is her emotional story, under oath, without
proof enough to stain Judge Kavanaugh forever without any repercussions?
There is plenty of sympathy for Dr. Ford. Apparently something happened to her. It just was not Judge Kavanaugh who was
responsible. Also, Christine Ford is not
a defenseless teenager. She is a mature
professional woman and a professor who holds advanced degrees in Psychology,
and who teaches the subject. She was
unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of the unscrupulous Senate Judicial
Committee democrats and their recommended activist lawyers, who did not
represent her interests, but those of the anti-Trump, anti-Kavanaugh activist
leftists. Her activist lawyers should be
fined or disbarred.
And what of the other accusers who hid behind the #metoo
movement to slander Judge Kavanaugh?
Should they not be prosecuted?
Surely we have to establish that there are penalties, criminal and
civil, for falsely and purposefully accusing an innocent man. Wrongful accusation is a fundamental human
wrong, dating back to early biblical times.
We cannot just forget what was done to Judge Kavanaugh and the
inquisition that was imposed on him.
I have run out of adjectives with which to characterize our
congressional leftists, particularly leftists on the Senate Judicial
Committee. “Appalling”, “outrageous” and
“egregious” come to mind, but none of those adjectives do these purveyors of
slanderous character assassination proper justice. I’ve been accused in some social forums as
coming across as angry or “cruel” because I’ve called leftists on their appeal
to emotion rather than reason when making political points. Well I’m not cruel, but I sure as hell am
angry at the systematic abrogation of any kind of fairness or decency during
this so-called confirmation process. These leftist senators are there to
“advise and consent” rather than to destroy a uniquely capable and qualified
Supreme Court nominee by accusations, innuendo and lies.
All else having failed, including attempts to characterize
his indignant defense of his reputation and family as lacking the right
“temperament” for a SCOTUS judge, (this after 12 years on the second highest
court in the land, the D.C. Circuit), dissection of his high school year book
and other equally ludicrous attempts to discredit him, these leftist committee
members now say that the FBI report is insufficient, and that the FBI is in
“collusion” with the White House and the republicans. They like that word “collusion”. Certainly the American public, particularly
“undecideds”, and even some that lean left, can see through this fraud and can
apply common sense decency and fairness.
Every dirty trick in the book having failed, the screaming
mobs are activated. The strident
“resistors” blocking government buildings, elevators, senators’ offices and
building corridors carry obviously professionally crafted signs and scripts,
indicating a lot more than just grass roots protests. One of the mob’s big points – “It’s a job
interview, not a trial”. Yeah, that’s
why the witnesses are sworn in, under God, at these hearings. I’m sure that investigation would readily
turn up a Soros conspiracy fueling these loud and vulgar “protests”.
Those inveterate leftists whose politics encompass socialist
policies, “political correctness”, “groupthink”, strong government control and
other trappings of the “nanny state” will never be convinced to back a
constitutionalist for the SCOTUS, rather than a “social judge”, who backs
social mores rather than the law, and who legislates from the Supreme Court
bench. The rest of America, who believe
that the SCOTUS should interpret the law and let the congress legislate, cannot
help to back a constitutionalist.
How this attack on Judge Kavanaugh will affect the midterm
elections is now being a subject for spirited discussion. Leftist pundits and talking heads have
posited that the country’s women will swing left because of the #metoo and
“believe her” movements, even though there is no corroboration of any of the
accusations against Judge Kavabaugh, and this has now been confirmed by still
another FBI investigation. Does anyone really
think that American women are gullible enough not to see through this
systematic attempt to destroy Judge Kavanaugh and his family, and this perversion
of the rule of law? This is still
America, and it’s still “innocent until proven guilty”.
In the meantime, polls in closely contested states have
swung right, rather than left, fairly strongly in some cases.
It is becoming more and more evident that the unscrupulous
democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee may have overplayed their
hand. There are now rumblings of
bringing charges of perjury or defamation against anyone who lied under oath to
Congress or to the FBI, and appointing a special counsel to investigate
collusion by the democratic committee members to defraud the Kavanaugh hearings.
The most rigorous of these proposals is to prosecute all of
the accusers and witnesses who have perjured themselves under oath, and also
their lawyers if they were complicit in crafting the perjury. Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee should be investigated and censured or impeached if proof of fraud is
found.
Obviously not all of the above is going to happen. Lawyers and Senate members are almost immune
from any sort of punishment. However, it
is thought that Diane Feinstein’s egregious behavior is indeed subject to
censure by the Senate.
In this #metoo environment, Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers are
viewed, particularly by leftist women, as heroic survivors of sexual harassment,
who came forward and should be believed even if they cannot furnish any
details, corroboration or proof. Just
accusing a man of sexual harassment is enough.
Having said that, two of the women could not furnish any proof, and were
vague and forgetful about the details of their accusations, rather than
willfully perjurious. It is not too far
a reach to posit that these women were pawns or “useful idiots” of a well-
established leftist plan to “get Kavavaugh at any cost”. Legal representation by Debra Katz and other
well-known leftist activists does not make this too far a reach.
The third accuser’s story is so lurid that she has retracted
parts of her sworn testimony. Alan
Dershowitz, not exactly a right-winger, has suggested that this accuser be
prosecuted as an example of what cannot and should not be done, even under the
auspices of the #metoo movement.
Particularly many women are sympathetic to Christine Ford’s
emotional and compelling story in front of the Senate Judicial Committee. But that’s exactly what it was – an emotional
story that took advantage of the #metoo environment that posits that no proof of
sexual harassment is necessary, just an accusation. Clearly something happened to Dr. Ford back
in the 1980’s. She does not know where
or when or how she got there or how she got home. All she “remembers” is having “one beer”, and
“Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge being there, 36 years ago”. An analysis of her body language on the stand
shows her to be deflecting and dissembling on several attempts by the very
gentle Ms Mitchel to define facts. She
was shown to be lying under oath about her involvement with polygraphs and
being evasive several other times.
Once Judge Kavanaugh has been on the Supreme Court for a
while, some of the injustice perpetrated on him by the democrats of this
congress will fade, similar to the Clarence Thomas affair in the 1990’s. What will hopefully not be forgotten by the American
electorate are the depths to which the democrats sank to destroy a good, solid
judge and scholar of the law. We cannot
let the mob, particularly a mob pressing to overthrow “innocent until proven
guilty”, and establish socialism and as a form of government to have its way in
the 2018 midterms.
The undignified howlings and yappings of the rabid activist
leftists who have attempted to destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and who continue
to violently accost republican senators and other administration figures in the
streets, in restaurants and in their homes, do not reflect the opinions of
regular mainstream Americans. Away from
the Acela and coastal California, and across the 84 counties of the country who
voted republican in 2016, are where the real opinions of the country can be
found. They are heard at the political
rallies in the outback. They are seen in
the reactions to blatant unfairness and character assassination in recent
swings toward republican candidates in midterm races in several important
states. People have simply had enough of
the democrats’ methodical efforts to destroy an exemplary judge and his family.
These leftist activists and their mainstream media
accomplices posit that not accepting the emotional accusations of Judge
Kavanaugh’s accusers, without proof or corroboration, will cause women voters
in the country to hew to the democrats’ cause.
These leftists take their “groupthink” to bizarre levels. Do they really think that American women are
as bigoted as they are in their blind obeisance to the #metoo movement? American women voters can certainly observe
the grossly unfair dirty tricks used against Judge Kavanaugh and his family. Feinstein and the committee democrats have
turned the beneficial aspects of the #metoo movement into a malevolent attempt
to destroy a Supreme Court candidate.
Blue wave in the 2018 midterms? There could be a historical blue ripple for
the party out of power in the house, but there also could be an ahistorical red
wave if Trump doesn’t trample all over the positives that his administration
has created in our society and economy.
No surprises on the Kavanaugh situation. More gutter politics by the left. More
character assassination attempts on Kavanaugh.
More insinuation and innuendo.
More strident rhetoric. Most
likely more accusations ostensibly supported by the #metoo movement. Did anyone expect the FBI to do their job,
report, and have the Senate get on with it?
As soon as the republican gentlemen of the Senate went along with the
one week delay for the FBI’s meaningless investigation, the democrats on the
committee started wailing for more time.
This was patently obvious, since their whole object is to continue to
delay, delay, delay.
The left’s purpose is to get a “no” vote from RINOs Collins,
Murkowski, and possibly Flake. They need
two of these to kill the nomination. One
won’t do, because Pence will break the tie, but the republicans cannot afford
to lose two. One can just imagine the
pressures from both sides being placed on these senators this week.
I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve seen a lot of dirty
politics, but I’ve never seen anything as odious and cynical as pulled off at
this hearing by Feinstein and her minions.
Not for Robert Bork. Not for
Clarence Thomas.
And it surely did enhance my opinion of Judge Kavanaugh’s
competence when he went on the offensive to defend his name and reputation and
family against the gutter snipe leftists of that committee who waited until the
last possible minute to leak Dr. Ford's name, steer her toward Debra Katz and
the Soros radicals, and turn the senate's "advise and consent" role
into a kangaroo court.
How utterly hypocritical of leftists to dare talk of
composure and grace when they are systematically destroying a good and decent
man and his family. For shame!
Now some of the real reasons for delaying the judicial
committee hearings another week are becoming apparent. It’s to load continuing unbearable disapprobation
and scorn on Judge Kavanaugh and his family. His strong and vehement denials of
the unfounded accusations against him, and the eloquent support of his family
and lifestyle, are being characterized by the leftists on the committee, and
amplified by their MSM cohorts, as him having too “belligerent” a temperament
to sit on the Supreme Court. In other
words he should have stayed silent and let the hatchet job by the leftists
against him and his family stand.
And speaking of the MSM, they are aglow with praise for Dr.
Ford, even though what she has is accusation with no proof or witnesses.
According to CBS, she also has over $700,000 in two gofundme accounts
(Soros?). Other than Fox, the MSM are
nearly silent as to what happened to Judge Kavanaugh, a true tragedy of our politics
and society.
One can only hope that the FBI character background check
will finally silence the unspeakably bigoted Feinsteins, Hironos, Bookers,
Blementhals, Kamelas, etc. of the judicial committee, but this is wishful
thinking. No doubt they will pull
another filthy trick from the mire of their politics to continue to smear Judge
Kavanaugh and his family.
If you believe the MSM consensus, the blatant injustice
perpetrated on Brett Kavanaugh and his family falls on deaf ears in our current
Americana. “Political correctness”, “social
justice”, “me too” apparently have spread insanity throughout our
population. Or maybe not. Our heartland is still there and Americans
are not stupid people that can be easily conned and stay conned. Republicans really need to get out there and
ensure a large election turnout that knows the truth and is willing to do
something about it.
I am as pissed as Lindsay Graham sounded at the cynical,
despicable, unconscionable slander that the senate judiciary democrats
perpetrated on Bret Kavanaugh. This was
not just “politics for a cause” or “leftist resistance” or a positive application
of the #metoo movement for women’s rights.
This was a coordinated effort to destroy a good man’s life and
reputation. Nothing that Trump has done
is his long and controversial career can even hold a candle to this leftist
smear job.
Although I have never been a big backer of Trump, the man’s
oversize personality and peccadilloes, I am thankful for Trump, the president,
who is willing to fight these slanderous slugs in their self-made gutter.
Trump pretty much stayed out of this one, but by his crude,
direct ways that you leftists hate so much, he has shown that he is willing to
apply some the gutter techniques he learned in his NYC business activities
against gutter dwelling leftists like Feinstein, Kamela and Spartacus. That’s the reason 84% of the counties in the
country elected Trump – to combat the spread of the unprincipled and socialist
left.
And yes, I may vote democrat again, as I did for Ann
Richards here in Texas, after her opponent, Clayton Williams joked about
enjoying rape, but it will be a really long reach for me after seeing what
these character assassins did to Judge Kavanaugh.
Adjectives and invective can’t do sufficient justice to the
despicable democrat minority on the senate judiciary committee that we have all
observed at the recent so-called SCOTUS “confirmation hearings”. Trump could have chosen Christ himself as a candidate
for the Supreme Court, and the democrat obstructionists would have found a way
to slander him and drag him into the muck that constitutes that side of the
committee.
Feinstein and her minions have irreparably damaged not only
Judge Kavanaugh, acknowledged by everyone that knows him to be a literal choir
boy and paragon of good behavior, but also Dr. Blasey-Ford, who appears to be a
brave and credible dupe of the same manipulators that went after Judge
Kavanaugh. The dignity and respect that
the old republican gentlemen of the judiciary committee afforded to Dr. Ford
will not matter a whit to these despicable democrat obstructionists.
Unfortunately nothing was proven because nothing was
provable. Hopefully, most thinking women
will see through the democrats’ con and realize that sympathy for an accusing
woman and the attendant optics do not outweigh the uncorroborated nature of the
accusations against an innocent male judge.
Particularly egregious are continuing accusations, too lurid even for the
New York Times, and other accusations from Stormy Daniels’ porno lawyer. Of course the democrats will not let this go,
and will try to continue the con against women voters.
One can only hope that the committee approves Judge
Kavanaugh to the full senate, who quickly confirm him, ending this comedy of
errors.
I personally have voted for democrats in the past, as
politics have waxed and waned. I
honestly can say that I can never see myself voting for a democrat in the
future. I literally could not tolerate
the stench in the gutter.
Chuck Grassley is an old style gentleman of the senate who
thinks that senate rules and decorum still apply. It’s sad to see how this lawful, rules-based
body has been perverted by unprincipled leftist mob rule that completely
disregards any modicum of either parliamentary procedure, or simple decency.
As McCarthy points out, the latest #metoo twists in the Kavanaugh
confirmation hearings are not about the democrat activist woman represented by
her democrat activist lawyer, nor about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The whole affair has been orchestrated by
Senator Feinstein and her minions on the committee, at the last possible
moment, after holding onto the original accusation of the alleged 36 year old
sexual abuse for three months. It
doesn’t take a poli-sci PhD to see through this nonsense.
Chuck Grassley should strengthen his backbone, grow a pair,
and stop trying to assuage the accusatory California activists. The rationale is that the optics of old white
senators questioning a woman about a 36 year old accusation would have a
deleterious effect on the votes of women in the country. IMHO, this kind of thinking does as much of a
disservice to women and women’s rights as some of the #metoo abuses. Do we think that women are not intelligent
enough to see through cynical, blatant abuses, such as perpetrated by Feinstein
and the left? Grassley’s gentlemanly
politeness and accommodation to the abusive leftists is becoming cloying, and detrimental
to all concerned.
The contention by the left in this “Upside down #metoo society” is that an unproven accusation leaked at the
last minute by leftist activists is sufficient to impugn the character and
possibly stop the appointment of a highly qualified judge to the Supreme
Court. No proof is required, just the
accusation, to be voiced, at the accuser’s convenience in a kangaroo court
setting devised specifically to accommodate the accuser. And, of course, the accused judge has to “testify”
first to something not yet verbalized by the accuser. If the whole process is not “upside down”, I
don’t know what is.
I went to college in Boston in the 1950’s, and although I
was not exactly a “frat boy”, I was on the fringes of that environment. In my generation, although it may have been
in the dark ages of women’s rights and gender equality, when a girl said “no’, it
was “no”. We plain and simple
stopped. We drank and caroused, and of
course there were some abuses, but my contemporaries could never conceive of
the coarse behavior that is now being testified to in the Senate. I’m sure the same is true for successive
generations of students who were raised in normal, god-fearing, American homes.
The egregious thing about the Kavanaugh affair is that
accusations without any proof are enough to impugn guilt to a squeaky clean
judge. And we look at the whole thing, not
with a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but in a strictly
emotional, political circus environment.
Public opinion, not the rule of law, prevails, based on who presents the
most popular and charismatic image, and whose sound bytes and youtube clips are
the most engaging.
The more lurid accusations against Kavanaugh seem to be
falling away from their own preposterousness, but they are still referenced by
the anti-Kavanaugh obstructionists on the judiciary committee.
Ray Gruszecki
October 11, 2018
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