What the Democrats Have Done

Stacey Lennox

And we should never, never forget.

. . . "This newest delay is an opportunity for Democrats to complain about the limited scope of the new investigation, find new "victims" with anonymous claims and endlessly delay this process. The FBI will not provide any conclusions. Just more information.

Then the Democrat members of the Judiciary Committee will take that information and say they need to question witnesses. Investigate new claims. They need more information. More, more, more.....

"This shameless delay tactic that reaches out and touches people who have already given their sworn statements is just despicable. Especially people with admitted psychological and health issues like Judge, Keyser and even Dr. Ford herself. They will not be satisfied until someone is ruined the way they ruined Miguel Estrada and his family. And that type of ruthless win at all costs philosophy should never be forgotten.

Democrats' OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT Toward Kavanaugh Victimized Him, Ford and ALL Americans

Gregg Jarrett at Socio-Political Journal

The plain truth is that it didn’t matter who President Trump nominated to fill the existing vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The president could have nominated a saint and Democrats would have done everything humanly possible to stop the nominee from being confirmed. No shameful tactic would have been spared. Both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are the victims of the outrageous conduct by Senate Democrats. And so are the American people.

. . . "Kavanaugh justifiably heaped scorn on Senate Democrats for what was he described as a “smear” and “character assassination,” pointing out correctly that they revealed the allegations against him by Ford only when his confirmation seemed assured.

"Kavanaugh laid bare the partisan motivations of Democrats for ruining his reputation and destroying his family. He condemned their actions for transforming the Senate confirmation process into “a national disgrace” and “replacing advise and consent with search and destroy.” 

"At times, questioning resembled a theater of the absurd as some clueless Democratic senators like Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut implied that cryptic references to drinking in Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook were somehow incriminating evidence of attempted rape. That’s so ridiculous as to be laughable.  

"More than anyone, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is responsible for this abomination." . . .

Jeff Flake and the Republicans hoodwinked and trapped by leftist "feminazis"

Obama bowed and repented before America's international enemies; the Republicans bow in the presence of our own citizens who hate them and this nation. TD

Sen Flake Caved to Woman Who Runs Soros Backed Organization
. . . "As you would expect, the “great investigative journalist” Anderson Cooper didn’t even bring Archila’s affiliation with Soros up in this interview, no no it’s all about pushing feelings and agenda. The left is absolutely obsessed with women’s “rights” and “healthcare” (aka abortion), which is all these attacks against Kavanaugh and the GOP are about… abortion." . . 

Are we learning yet America? This is why you do not stand down to these radical leftists when confronted out of the left field. You have no idea who that person is getting in your face, be it a professional activist to someone who lies really good to get you to bend to their will, or a good old fashion con-artist hustling for a dollar or two. NO, not saying these women are liars or con-artists, but activists with an agenda to screw you!

Only the naïve would have no suspicions that a trap lies behind the demand for a renewed FBI investigation of the charges against Kavanaugh

. . . "To my mind, the Dems would not have launched their coordinated effort to demand an [FBI] investigation and bully or bribe or just convince Jeff Flake to go along with their demand. At a minimum, they have more claims to surface, resulting in more delay. But with all the delays they already have [imposed], they have had time to be creative and manufacture traps."

On a different view:

Flake said the investigation period also soothed worries from both Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins, two Republicans who have not announced if they will vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

How Sen. Flake brought the Senate back from the brink  Bringing this nation back from a brink that Democrats have created. This all implies the issue is between different well-intentioned factions, but I cannot give the left this kind of credit. The liberals have shown us a despicable side repeatedly, from the likes of Maxine Waters demagoguery and her calls for attacks on Republicans, Kamala Harris and her support for the police murdering Black Lives Matter, the scowling Chuck Schumer, and his predecessor the contemptible Harry Reid. Topping the list is Hillary Clinton with her throngs of adoring, clueless press and leftist women's groups who sing songs of praise to her.
If these people are the best liberals have to offer what trust and respect can we possibly have for them?  The Tunnel Dweller

The Democrats' FBI sham  " 'All the world's a stage," wrote Shakespeare. The Democrats staged an event to gut the judge of his honor.  May God help us when people with dishonor gainsay the honorable."

Jeff Flake and Kavanaugh Brutally Summed Up by a Single Cartoon

Andrew C. McCarthy: Republicans Should Not Have Delayed the Kavanaugh Vote

They gave Democrats exactly what they wanted.

. . . "It doesn’t matter what sheep’s clothing the wolf comes in; the wolf is always delay. When they say, “We’re protecting survivors,” they mean, “We want delay.” When they posture that “women must be believed,” their aim is more delay. When they say, “The FBI must investigate to remove any cloud over the nominee,” the translation is: “Give us a delay so we can come up with new reasons for delay.' ” . . .

. . . "The Constitution assigns the advice-and-consent function to the legislative branch. The FBI is a component of the executive branch. The constitutional powers of the legislature are not contingent on the cooperation of the executive. Moreover, the FBI did not exist until it was created by statute at the start of the 20th century, meaning the Senate was quite capably vetting judicial nominations for over a century before there was an FBI.

"The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is charged with assessing judicial nominees, has one of the largest professional staffs of any committee on Capitol Hill. The staff includes many former federal prosecutors and investigators. The committee never needs to wait for the FBI; it can conduct its own, very thorough investigation of any judicial nominee.

The Democrats Have Always Wanted to Destroy Kavanaugh

Their latest effort to do so cannot be allowed to succeed.

In fact, several Democrats promised earlier this summer to tank anyone President Trump nominated. “Americans should make it clear that they will not tolerate a nominee chosen from President Trump’s pre-ordained list,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said on the Senate floor in late June. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut swore the Democrats would “use every tool available” to stop any Supreme Court nominee. 

Women Screaming At Flake In Elevator Were Soros-Funded Astroturfed Activist Leaders!—Not Victims

The Gateway Pundit

"About an hour later and after several private talks with Democrats Jeff Flake came out and announced he would only vote for Brett Kavanaugh if an investigation continued on the man for another week.

This was exactly what Democrats were hoping for!

Now this…

The women who were screaming at Senator Jeff Flake in the elevator are Soros-funded astroturfed activists.

There names are Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila.

Flake and Republicans got played.

They celebrated after Flake caved.!

Despicable USA Today slurs Kavanaugh as possible pedophile

I hope the parents of these girls will stand by Judge Kavanaugh!

Thomas Lifson  "The campaign of personal destruction unleashed on Judge Brett Kavanaugh is revealing the depths to which the Democrats and their journalistic handmaidens have fallen.

"Wait a minute! They haven’t fallen, they have leaped… into an abyss of lies, innuendo, and outright cruelty. An operation undertaken against a man admired by virtually everyone who has professionally or socially known and associated with him for decades.

"This tweet on the official USA Today Twitter feed (@USATODAY) and the article it links to are despicable:

USA TODAY

✔@USATODAY

From @usatodaysports: "The U.S. Senate may yet confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, but he should stay off basketball courts for now when kids are around," writes @ByErikBrady . https://usat.ly/2N9qDiL

Why the Brett Kavanaugh Smear?

"This is the message they are trying to send: If we can do this to the Boy Scout Brett Kavanaugh, we can do it to anyone. Are you thinking of serving in a Republican administration? Or accepting an appointment to the federal judiciary from a Republican president? Think twice, and then think again."

PowerLine  "One question I have pondered over the last few weeks is, why are the Democrats so determined to block Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court? Realistically, he is the most moderate nominee they are likely to see from the Trump administration. If his nomination fails, the president will most likely appoint Amy Barrett, who is secure against #MeToo allegations and is both more conservative and younger than Kavanaugh. So what is the point?

"To some extent, the Democrats’ bizarre smear campaign against Kavanaugh is explicable on short-term political grounds. The Democrats’ crazed base demands that they #Resist, so resist they will, whether it does any good or not. But I think there is something deeper and more sinister at work.

"Brett Kavanaugh enjoys one of the most spotless reputations of anyone in American public life. He has been enthusiastically endorsed by those who have known him all his life–by girls he knew in high school and college, by judges he has served with, by professors and students and Harvard and Yale law schools, by judges who have worked with him, by his judicial clerks–most of whom have been women–by the American Bar Association, by sitting Supreme Court justices. In short, everyone who has ever known or dealt with Brett Kavanaugh endorses him.

"I think that Judge Kavanaugh’s pristine reputation is one reason why the Democrats have unleashed against him a smear campaign unparalleled in American history. This is the message they are trying to send: If we can do this to the Boy Scout Brett Kavanaugh, we can do it to anyone. Are you thinking of serving in a Republican administration? Or accepting an appointment to the federal judiciary from a Republican president? Think twice, and then think again." . . .

Alyssa Milano's 'Death Stare at Judge Kavanaugh

Her icy glare aside, Milano also attracted considerable attention on social media due to the outfit she wore while attending the hearing.

"Her icy glare aside, Milano also attracted considerable attention on social media due to the outfit she wore while attending the hearing.  

"Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano took social media by storm after she attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday.

"As Kavanaugh was giving his testimony during the hearing, many Twitter users took note of Milano seated behind him, and of her facial expression as the actress focused her "death stare," as some people put it, on the man.

She apparently loves the camera as much as any other liberal, maybe almost as much as Obama. TD

Twitter Blasts Alyssa Milano's 'Revealing Dress' at Kavanaugh Hearing

"Despite the fact that taking videos and photos were prohibited during the hearing, Milano continued taking pictures and tweeting during the proceedings, prompting guards to confiscate her phone.

"Alyssa Milano, an American actress and #MeToo activist, drew attention on social media after she attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday.

"Milano attended the hearing as a guest of Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, wearing a black pinstriped dress, which, as USA Today noted, “some deemed ‘disrespectful’ and ‘revealing.’”

"A number of Twitter users concurred with this assessment, blasting the actress for her choice of clothes and her conduct." . . .

She can bask in adoration at the next Hollywood self-praise gala.

Empathy, Accuracy, and Credibility

Victor Davis Hanson

"It is considered taboo even to suggest that an emphatic Professor Ford at times was inexact and inconsistent in her prior written and current Senate testimonies.

"But the result of her sometimes-moving account still remains that she seems to have little recollection of how her still-private therapist’s notes or versions of notes ended up in the hands of the Washington Post and were to be used as corroborating evidence — even though they at times seem to have contradicted elements of versions of her allegations.

"Ford, unfortunately, seems to have little memory of how her original letter requesting anonymity surfaced in the media. Nor does anyone else in the small number who had access to it. Ford, apparently, has little recollection of an offer — widely reported in the media — from Senate members to fly out to California to alleviate her anxieties about flying. Strangely, she did not explain how such a fear of flying contradicted her own record of relatively recent and extensive flying both for business and leisure.

"One wished that Ford could at last have named one witness who could corroborate her allegations that the 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her 36 years ago in a place where witnesses were apparently present, or at least produced convincing evidence that the testimonies of those alleged to be at the party who had no memory of her narratives were sorely mistaken.

"Ford might have been deemed more credible had she just been able to locate the scene of the alleged assault, or to explain how and why the alleged gender and number of those at the scene of the alleged assault were not reported by her consistently, or to remember how she arrived and left the scene." . . .

Some Democrats are pledging to investigate Judge Kavanaugh if they retake Congress and are floating the possibility of impeachment.

Get out and vote for Republicans!

Daily Caller  "Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh might keep facing political attacks from the left if he is confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

"Kavanaugh faced an onslaught of attacks from Democrats and liberal activists even before Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford accused him of drunkenly trying to force himself on her while the two were in high school. Kavanaugh denied Ford’s accusation once again in an emotional testimony Thursday.

"Brian Fallon, former press secretary on Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign, predicted Kavanaugh “will not serve for life” if confirmed to the Supreme Court.

"Fallon leads Demand Justice, a Democratic dark money group dedicated to opposing Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and previously called for Kavanaugh to be impeached from his current position on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals." . . .

Illustration from Ian Macfarlane:

Obama says he never attacked the press, and gets a scathing history lesson

The Blaze  Former President Barack Obama is being applauded by many on the left for leaving the political sidelines and jumping into the fray for the midterms, but others are criticizing his lack of historical honesty for comments he made about freedom of the press.

“You never heard me threaten to shut them down”

Obama appeared to lob thin-veiled critiques against the current president in a speech at the University of Illinois Friday.

“It shouldn’t be Democratic or Republican to say that we don’t threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories we don’t like,” Obama said to loud applause.

“I complained plenty about Fox News,” he continued, “but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them ‘enemies of the people.’

“Under Obama, the DOJ and FBI spied on reporters…”

The former president was clearly criticizing Trump for his attacks on the media, but the comments were immediately undermined by those who remembered Obama’s own less vocal, but more legal, attacks.

“Did substantially increase leak prosecutions, however,” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times objected.

“Leak prosecutions were a big deal under Obama. It wasn’t a frontal attack, but it was a stealth one,” she added in a response to someone defending Obama.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins responded with a quote from the New York Times summing up Obama’s actions against the freedom of the press.

“Under Obama, the DOJ and FBI spied on reporters by monitoring phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to others to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify,” the excerpt read." . . .

Sexism from women is just fine.

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Ridiculous Tweets From Liberals Accuse Kavanaugh Of ‘Mansplaining’ To Dianne Feinstein  "Liberal activists and pundits were quick to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of “mansplaining” to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein at Thursday’s hearing.

"The California senator asked Kavanaugh why he didn’t call for an FBI investigation into professor Christine Blasey Ford‘s allegations against him. Kavanaugh answered that he’s open to whatever avenues the Senate Judiciary Committee seeks to pursue and noted that the FBI wouldn’t be able to arrive at a conclusion.

"Kavanaugh was guilty of “mansplaining” in that answer, liberal critics charged.

“ 'He is mansplaining the FBI to a US Senator. So, you know, that’s going well,” remarked Christina Reynolds, vice president of communications at Emily’s List, a pro-abortion group.

“ 'Brett Kavanaugh is mansplaining to Sen. Feinstein about how the FBI works,” claimed Terrell J. Star, a reporter at The Root."

Mazie Hirono tells men to "shut up"

Lindsey Graham fought back: “I know I am a single white male from North Carolina, and I am told I should shut up, but I will not shut up.”  . . . "Sen. Lindsey Graham took a subtle jab at Democrat colleague Sen. Mazie Hirono for one of her comments made last week in regard to the handling of sexual assault allegations made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his opening remarks to the Judiciary Committee on Friday morning." . . .

Kavanaugh’s fate now rests with three GOP senators — Flake, Murkowski and Collins

Committee Vote Scheduled For Friday On Kavanaugh, Floor Vote For Saturday

Yahoo  "It was a seesaw day of directly conflicting testimony and partisan sniping, but by the evening, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court lay — as it has all along — with three Republican senators.

"Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will determine whether Kavanaugh’s nomination moves forward toward confirmation this weekend, is delayed or goes down altogether." . . . Flake isn't exactly a fire-breathing "yes".

Being a "glass is only half-full" kind of guy, I'm a bit afraid of being optimistic, but let's hope this turns out to be prophetic. TD:

Conclusion from yesterday's hearing: Kavanaugh will be confirmed 
Ford's inconsistencies listed and explored.

She couldn't answer if she paid for the polygraph, and her attorneys had to answer that they paid for the polygraph.
She hired the attorney, Katz, recommended by Senator Feinstein.  Instead of reporting the allegation to the entire Judiciary Committee, Feinstein referred her to an activist Dem attorney.

. . . "Kavanaugh showed resilience and courage, like Trump.  Kavanaugh was real and honest, unlike Ford.

"Finally, the Republicans on the committee, led by Senator Graham, got tired of the lies by the Democrats and stood up to defend Kavanaugh.

"Senator Grassley responded forcefully to the Dems who kept whining about an FBI investigation.  Grassley pointed out that the Dems hid the July 30 letter, preventing the committee from investigating the accusation until after the confirmation hearings.

"Senator Graham summed it up perfectly: Feinstein and the Dems leaked the July 30 letter after the confirmation to delay the confirmation vote until after the November elections."

Kavanaugh compromise for Dems: Confirm now, impeach later. . . "I wish I could say we've seen the depths of darkness from the left.  Sadly, we haven't.  Things are going to get much darker."

Sen. Corker says yes  . . . "The senator concedes that Kavanaugh is "qualified to serve on the Supreme Court" and will be voting to confirm him." . . .