The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday formally postponed a vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, canceling a meeting set for later this week where a vote was initially expected to happen
Staffers for Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent out a notice that the Thursday business meeting had been canceled. The Senate is expected to leave town for the week on Tuesday.
The delay for a vote to advance Kavanaugh's nomination was widely expected following allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, a professor who alleges that Kavanaugh held her down and tried to remove her clothes at a party in the early 1980s when both were in high school. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Grassley announced this week that Kavanaugh would testify before the Judiciary Committee for a second time next Monday, days after the initial committee vote was scheduled Grassley has yet to say when the Senate panel will now vote on Kavanaugh's nomination The chairman declined to comment when leaving a closed-door meeting of Judiciary Committee Republicans on Monday night. Grassley also dodged questions about it on Tuesday morning during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Kavanaugh's nomination first appeared on the Judiciary Committee's agenda roughly a week after the initial round of hearings took place. President Trump on Tuesday ramped up his defense of Kavanaugh amid the allegations, saying he "is not a man who deserves this."
Poster Comment:
Kavanaugh confirmation before midterms will result in GOP loss of the HOR, he's that bad.
The GOP wing of the party will totally lose the HOR if they confirm *JJ Swamp before the midterm elections.
*Jesuit Judge Swamp
Now Kavi can go back to picking up Hillary's spent shell casings, and other cover up ops to protect her.
#3: Hank Rearden To: hondo68 (#0)
What, exactly, did those parasites do during this grueling 2-day workweek?
Kavanaugh's in - the girl's running away from her lies and Feinswine's diaper stench.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-09-18 21:29:48 Reply Private Reply
#4: Hank Rearden To: nolu chan (#1)
And no more bullshit about Strong Independent Leftist Womyn anymore either. Shove that up your baracks too, 'Rats.
Call the vote, Grassley, and get it done. Then we move on to replacing the decrepit old bridge troll next year with Amy Coney Barrett.
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-09-18 21:31:28 Reply Private Reply
#5: Hondo68 To: Vicomte13 (#2)
I agree with you on that. There are many good reasons not to confirm Kavanaugh, but that ain't one of them.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-09-18 21:40:21 Reply Private Reply
#6: GrandIsland To: Hank Rearden (#4)
You are too kind. She deserves no title besides lying snowflake cunt.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-18 22:12:09 Reply Private Reply
#7: GrandIsland To: Vicomte13 (#2)
No they cant, dip shit. It will cause a blue wave at the next election cycle. Have you been sleeping under a rock since 2008? Its OVER SENSITIZED AMERICA. The majority has to at least make it look like they have sympathy for the lying bitch... and POLITELY discredit her without being too mean and male chauvinistic.
Just exactly how have you become this friggin retarded, as of lately?
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-18 22:16:50 Reply Private Reply
#8: nolu chan To: Vicomte13, hondo68 (#2)
That is not what Dr. Ford actually said, although it is what was originally reported. Dr. Ford wrote she was pushed into the bedroom where Kavanaugh held her down, and when Judge jumped on them she got free, ran to the hallway bathroom where she locked herself in, stayed about 15 minutes until she heard them go down the stairs, and she let herself out and left the house and went home. Allegedly.
While the bedroom door was locked, it kept others from coming in. When she got free and ran to the hallway bathroom, the locked bedroom door did not stop her from leaving. While she was locked in the bathroom, she locked herself in and then let herself out. Allegedly.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/16/politics/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-letter-feinstein/index.html
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-18 22:23:57 Reply Private Reply
#9: Fred Mertz To: nolu chan (#8)
Is this the counseling that she refers to? I wouldn't call it medical treatment, but that's just me.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-18 22:29:26 Reply Private Reply
#10: nolu chan To: Hank Rearden (#4)
A committee vote to recommend or not recommend the nomination is not an actual necessity.
The necessity is to report the nomination out to the Senate. It may be reported out with a recommendation to approve, to disapprove, or with no recommendation. Even where the committee majority is against the nomination, it is still reported out to the Senate for their consideration.
It may be reported out with or without a printed report. The chair of the Judiciary Committee may file a one page document reporting a nomination to the Senate.
Only two nominations have been reported out without recommendation; Wheeler H. Peckham in 1894 (rejected by the Senate) and Clarence Thomas in 1991 (approved by the Senate).
Just get it done before going out of session.
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-18 22:49:25 Reply Private Reply
#11: nolu chan To: Fred Mertz (#9)
I do not believe that has been made clear. It is possible she had individual counseling/therapy before couples counseling. I believe either would qualify as "medical treatment" under modern definition.
Modern language abuse includes certain things as a "disease" or "medical treatment" to make it payable by health insurance.
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-18 22:58:49 Reply Private Reply
#12: Hondo68 To: GrandIsland, Ivanka cut bait, Kavi is chum, dump Bush guy (#6)
Hondo68 posted on 2018-09-18 23:00:53 Reply Private Reply
#13: Fred Mertz To: hondo68 (#12)
OMG, crucify him, crucify him.
I have no choice but to follow this soap opera. It makes me slightly ill, but I'll watch what happens.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-18 23:11:12 Reply Private Reply
#14: nolu chan To: hondo68, GrandIsland (#12)
Trump knows that if the GOP loses the Senate after the election, he will not get any of the other five.
It is thoroughly sourced.
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-18 23:11:59 Reply Private Reply
#15: nolu chan To: hondo68 (#12)
Well, at least the great, the magnificent President Donald J. Trump told "people" and not dogs or cats or walls.
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-18 23:14:48 Reply Private Reply
#16: nolu chan To: Fred Mertz (#11)
I saw that she received the couples counseling in 2012 and had individual counseling the following year after that.
To be clear, there had been no suggestion that she sought any sort of medical attention at the time of the alleged incident, circa 1982.
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-19 00:02:47 Reply Private Reply
#17: nolu chan To: Fred Mertz, hondo68 (#13)
You may want to follow the polygraph Q&A where no deception was detected.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/experts-doubt-claim-of-truthful-polygraph-result-from-kavanaugh-accuser
Well, isn't that just special?
She was not detected being deceptive when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate; i.e., it accurately described her allegations.
The statement summarizing her allegations could be a 100% accurate summary, even if the allegations themselves were 100% fiction.
Now why didn't this trained former FBI agent ask her about whether her allegations were truthful?
nolu chan posted on 2018-09-19 00:21:01 Reply Private Reply
#18: Vicomte13 To: GrandIsland (#7)
The blue wave with be overmatched by a red wave if the Republicans press ahead and motivate their voters.
If the Republicans don't use their power and fail to put Kavanaugh on the court, there will be a blue wave ANYWAY - the Left hates Trump and they will come out and they will vote. But there will be no countervailing red wave. The Right will be demoralized and will stay home.
The Democrats use their power, all of it. And that's why the whole national policy agenda is their belief system.
The Republicans don't, so they lose anyway, and they don't get their agenda.
Insult me all you want. You sound like a coward. A lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is at stake - and you, and the Republicans, are so afraid of an election cycle that you're going to squander that opportunity, to simply lose anyway? I'm not a retard, but you guys are pussies. That's why the Democrats win: they always fight. It's their cardinal advantage over you guys. They fight, and you run away from the fight. Every time.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-09-19 06:28:33 Reply Private Reply
#19: Vicomte13 To: nolu chan (#8)
I don't care if he raped her. It's 30 years ago. They were minors. It doesn't matter, to me.
Republicans are such stupid, sniveling cowards. Clinton? Obama? What these men did thirty years ago was also disgraceful. Republicans bring the stuff up and bandy it around, AS IF it were important, and the Democrats fucking ignore them and plow ahead and win. Republicans tried to impeach Clinton for lying over a blowjob, and a blue wave came out and gave the Democrats MORE SEATS in a mid-term lame-duck election. Never happens, but it happened, because in the end Democrat voters are smart enough to realize that the moral failings of individual men are TOTALLY IRRELEVANT when power and policy are at stake. ALL MEN are sinners - and Democrats don't hold their leaders accountable for that fact, and they don't LET the Republicans hold them accountable for it either. They ignore the bitching, ignore the complaints, put their heads down and charge through.
Democrats are like Patton - they fight to win..
Republicans HAVE the power and can bulldoze through right now, like Democrats. Instead, they're actually stalling and CARING about some guy's high school sexual hijinks 34 years ago, and in the process squandering their opportunity to control the Supreme Court, because some girl was groped in the 1980s.
If the Republicans blow this, they deserve to lose, and they will, and that will be it. Game over. The Democrats have no power. The Republicans are GIVING THEM power. Just before an election that Republicans are very likely to lose.
If high school sexual hijinks are disqualifying from office, the Republican party is doomed. Strike the colors and go home.
The proper response to this is what the Democrats do: give the opposition the finger, use power, ignore their bleating, plow forward and impose their will.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-09-19 06:37:38 Reply Private Reply
#20: misterwhite To: nolu chan (#1)
No. What she wants is to drag this out for another 2-3 months then refuse to testify under oath. She's using the #metoo movement to bully the Republicans.
Fine. When this is over we'll use her lies to bully the #metoo movement.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 08:53:20 Reply Private Reply
#21: misterwhite To: Vicomte13 (#2)
In a sane world that's what they would do. But they'd get crucified by the MSM and the #metoo movement for their lack of sensitivity and for ignoring the victims of sexual abuse.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 08:56:46 Reply Private Reply
#22: misterwhite To: Hank Rearden (#3)
They gave a lot of interviews. They furrowed their brows and frowned. They displayed concern and compassion.
Being phony takes a lot of work. Two days of that and they're exhausted.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:00:37 Reply Private Reply
#23: misterwhite To: GrandIsland (#6)
Let's compromise. Dr. Lying Snowflake Cunt.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:06:22 Reply Private Reply
#24: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#12)
Hold on here. Which Democrat has "gone to the mat" for this lying bitch? Name one Democrat who has said "I believe her".
When this whole thing blows up, no Democrat wants to be on record as being a part of it.
Where are the Hollywood types stating they believe her 100%? The MSM? The liberal talk shows? The late night comics? SNL? Her peers at the university? Her friends?
If they believe her, I haven't seen or heard anything.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:17:20 Reply Private Reply
#25: misterwhite To: nolu chan (#14)
Anonymous, of course.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:18:41 Reply Private Reply
#26: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#24)
This murdering cunt right here
Sen. Hirono: Men Need To "Shut Up," Kavanaugh Accuser Needs To Be Believed And I Believe Her
A K A Stone posted on 2018-09-19 09:20:12 Reply Private Reply
#27: misterwhite To: nolu chan (#16)
Just for the record, I don't believe she mentioned Kavanaugh's name during those sessions.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:21:21 Reply Private Reply
#28: misterwhite To: Vicomte13 (#19)
They care about how this will make them look. They could give a FF about some teenage groping incident 35 years ago.
And so should we. But the MSM and the #metoo movement will never allow that.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 09:26:15 Reply Private Reply
#29: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#26)
She believes the accuser because, well, the accuser said so. Kavanaugh said it didn't happen ... but she doesn't believe him.
Let's say the accuser comes forward and admits she was confused and it was some other guy. Will Sen. Hirono then vote to confirm Kavanaugh?
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 10:45:53 Reply Private Reply
#30: Fred Mertz To: misterwhite (#29)
That's as likely to happen as Kavanaugh saying I didn't do that to her, I did that to Betty Boop.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-19 11:04:46 Reply Private Reply
#31: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#30)
I think it's dawning on her that she's in waaaay over her head.
Someone miscalculated and told her the Republicans, misogynists all, would try to bury it and go forward with the vote despite the accusation. And that would be that. Then the Democrats would have the excuse they were looking for to vote "no".
I don't think she ever envisioned herself testifying, under oath, on national television, in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But she's been in academia her entire life. She doesn't know the real world.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 11:25:11 Reply Private Reply
#32: Fred Mertz To: misterwhite (#31)
She may be telling the truth like I said before, but there is no way to prove it.
How can Kavanaugh testify about something that he claims didn't happen? I'll guess he'll make a short statement to that effect and be done with it.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-19 11:35:23 Reply Private Reply
#33: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#32)
Correct. But according to her there was another girl and two other boys. Where are they? Don't they see the news? Why aren't they stepping forward to either confirm or deny her story?
I'm still confused as to why she said Mark Judge was there. She had to know he'd deny it making it two against one.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 11:54:16 Reply Private Reply
#34: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#32)
Maybe he'll testify he was out of the country that year.
If she provided more more more specifics as to the date and location he could defend himself. But that vagueness along with the passage of 35 years, makes it difficult.
Very unfair to any defendant.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 11:57:41 Reply Private Reply
#35: Fred Mertz To: misterwhite (#33)
Those are good questions although the other three may have been unaware at the time that there was alleged hanky panky going on in the other room.
Yes, where are they? Well, I'm off to lunch now.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-19 11:59:42 Reply Private Reply
#36: IbJensen To: hondo68 (#0)
This bitch wrote a similar letter during Judge Gorsich's hearing. It has been covered up, but some honest Congressmen remember it well. So Why not trample over the evil Democraps and vote Kavanaugh in!
IbJensen posted on 2018-09-19 12:00:34 Reply Private Reply
#37: Fred Mertz To: misterwhite (#33)
One last thought, the Pubbies played this one pretty well. Borrowed these comments from another site.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-19 12:15:57 Reply Private Reply
#38: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#35)
True. But they could testify a) there was a party, b) Kavanaugh and Judge were there, and c) they were both very drunk. Given the statements on record by Kavanaugh and Judge, that alone would be damning.
Or they could say there was a party but the two drunk boys were Brett Kavastein and Mark Juggs.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 12:28:53 Reply Private Reply
#39: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#37)
They were given lemons and made lemonade. I would have shoved the lemons up Feinstein's ass, but that's me.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 12:31:57 Reply Private Reply
#40: Liberator To: hondo68 (#5)
Really?
Like exactly WHAT??
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 12:37:41 Reply Private Reply
#41: Liberator To: hondo68 (#0)
Back it up or STFU.
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 12:38:30 Reply Private Reply
#42: Deckard To: Liberator, hondo68 (#40)
Like the fact he led the Starr investigation into the death of Vince Foster, and concluded against all logic and all the evidence that he killed himself in Fort Marcy Park. You have to be quite a judge to support these kinds of impossible official narratives. By anyones standards, Kavanaugh proved his establishment mantle in that investigation alone.
Kavanaugh, as White House counsel under Bush, also sought to limit compensation under the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Kavanaugh- Another Fake Sideshow
Deckard posted on 2018-09-19 12:49:03 Reply Private Reply
#43: Liberator To: Deckard (#42)
Is that your party's (D) opinion and quibble?
And btw -- why should I believe you and your alleged "source"? You guys do nothing but lies your azzes off 110% of the time.
Kavanaugh, as White House counsel under Bush, also sought to limit compensation under the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Are you seeking the hangman's noose or electric chair, Madam?
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 13:00:46 Reply Private Reply
#44: Liberator To: Deckard (#42)
Wanna start making arguments to dismiss YOUR judges over "qualifications"?
START WITH YOUR PARTY'S (D) fake/partisan SCOTUS judges: Bader-Ginsburg, "The Wise Latina," and the other chubby man-hating ACLU/anti-Constitution judge. And don't forget Prog-globalist, Breyer.
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 13:05:17 Reply Private Reply
#45: Liberator To: misterwhite, Fred Mertz (#38)
"Damning" in what context??
Teen-age high school kids getting drunk? Big whoop.
This is all bullsh**.
100% of Democrats facing an iota of proper, reasonable scrutiny would all be JAILED.
NONE of this desperate fairy tale "GOTCHA!" and so-called "Litmus Test" by the highly criminal Democrat Party should be humored.
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 13:09:17 Reply Private Reply
#46: misterwhite To: Liberator (#45)
For starters, Kavanaugh is on record saying he wasn't at that party.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 13:26:53 Reply Private Reply
#47: Deckard To: Liberator (#44)
Get your facts straight Sparky - I'm not a Democrat.
Partisan politics is Kabuki theater for the rubes.
Deckard posted on 2018-09-19 13:27:32 Reply Private Reply
#48: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#35)
I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as PJ who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post, Smyth says in the letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to CNN. I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh.
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-19 13:31:40 Reply Private Reply
#49: Liberator To: Deckard (#47)
But...you join them in their fatwa against Trump. And the Bible/gun clingers.
This isn't a fake/Dubya "you're either for us or against us" BS choice; It's real. The Dems are at war. And "freedom" is NOT on their menu.
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 13:42:55 Reply Private Reply
#50: Liberator To: misterwhite (#46)
Yes...But here's my point: Even IF he was -- *would* it be "damning" to be drinking at a party as a teenager?
This bizarre standard created out of thin air by Dems (which began with Moore) shouldn't be considered even slightly seriously.
Liberator posted on 2018-09-19 13:45:58 Reply Private Reply
#51: Hondo68 To: Deckard, Liberator, Jesuit Mafia, Vicomte13, Christie, anti-Patriot Act, Fred Mertz (#42)
Kavi & Crisco are from the same Jesuit mobster zone, the MD/NJ swamp. Authoritarian goons, aka tyrants. It's a miracle that Judge Napolitano turned out so well, he's old school patriotic American. Gonna busta cap on the tyrants!
Father Rodreguez & the Boys, Team Kavanaugh. (some say that they're not REAL Jesuits)
Hondo68 posted on 2018-09-19 14:47:04 Reply Private Reply
#52: Deckard To: Liberator (#49)
I don't have a fatwa against Trump ass-clown. I disagree with him on completely different reasons than the Dems - but by all means, keep playing that false left-right paradigm card.
You just don't get it Poindexter - one can be critical of Trump and not be a Democrat. I'm just not into the cult of personality like so many of you here seem to be.
I've already stated that he's done some good things.
I think he's an obnoxious clown, a megalomaniacal narcissist, but still - he's better than Hillary.
Speaking of Hillary - when is Trump going to make good on his campaign promise and "LOCK HER UP"?
Oh wait, that's right - he says "she's suffered enough".
How's that "swamp draining" thingie coming along?
Deckard posted on 2018-09-19 15:12:55 Reply Private Reply