I’ve been ignoring…
…the Kavanaugh hearings. But others have amply covered the various forms of insanity connected with the proceedings.
At Powerline, we have this, this, and this. From the latter:
It strikes me that the Democratic Party crossed a Rubicon of sorts today [Tuesday]. They abandoned all norms not just of civility–something they purported to yearn for just a few days ago!–but of sanity. They deliberately turned a Senate confirmation hearing into a farce. There was no distinction between the howling left-wing mob that infiltrated the hearing room and the Senate Democrats.
his daughters missed what could have been a incredibly great experience because they were afriad they might get hurt by the brownshirt feminists protesting..
Fred Guttenberg said “I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence.”
Guns are inanimate objects and cannot be violent. Is Guttenberg stupid or a liar?
@Ray– Why the either-or ?? One can be both, and I dare say we have seen any number of examples of late.
My only thought is that do the Dems really think their antics the last two days in the hearing will convince voters, other than their loony base, that they have any semblance of rationality any more???
I’m trying my hardest to ignore it, but Sheldon Whitehouse, yesterday, when he coined the new gang name, “the Roberts 5” may have one of the most nasty and ridiculous displays I’ve ever seen. Good God. If the Republicans can’t make hay out of this, I don’t even know what to tell you.
The Dems entered the hearings knowing the fight was lost. They had already announced their intention to vote against confirmation, and in so doing undermined any validity they may have claimed for their complaints. The histrionics were intended to differentiate the various 2020 POTUS contenders from each other among the party faithful. The risk of the unseemly behavior is to alienate the undeclared voter. But their calculus says that any such alienation will dissipate long before November 2020.
Barring a late breaking “bombshell” revelation, Kavanaugh will be confirmed in time for the opening of the new SC session.
It was a competition to see who could be more rude, the Democrats on the committee or the screamers in the audience.
I could understand the histrionics immediately following H. Clinton’s loss. For a few days. This extended insanity is the primal scream of the “entitled” bureaucratic class against the loss of its power. I’d tell them to grow up, but they don’t want to.
“I’ve been ignoring……the Kavanaugh hearings. ”
You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away, know when to run..
I’ve dipped into the reports, and it seems to be a cross between a three-ring circus and a five-alarm fire.
Worth looking at again.
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/kavanaugh-and-bork/90372/
“Well, déjà vu all over again. Here we are, 31 years later, and the curtain is about to go up on a confirmation hearing in which one of the issues will be precisely the nominee’s views on firing special prosecutors. Judge Kavanaugh’s doubts about the constitutionality, never mind the recklessness, of special prosecutors are, we would argue, precisely one of the things that puts him in the mainstream.”
There was atleast a bit of humor when Rep. Billy Long auctioned off the cell phone of that female interrupting the social media hearings. Here’s the clip: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/rep-billy-long-auctioneer-drowns-out-protester-shouting-at-twitters-jack-dorsey-during-hearing.html
Phillipa – saw that, loved it. Hecklers are bad news regardless of what they purport to support. There is a time and place for protests, and formal hearings are not it.
https://www.nysun.com/national/democrats-rage-puts-kavanaugh-in-clearer-light/90375/
Democrats’ Rage Puts Kavanaugh In Clearer Light
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post | September 5, 2018
“It’s tempting to hope the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh will finish the way they began. That’s with what amounts to a mental breakdown by the Democratic minority.
…
Yet the Democratic rage may serve only to throw into a clearer light Judge Kavanaugh’s calm, reasoned approach to the law — one focused on the plain language of the Constitution and on precedent.
This started to come into focus on the second day of the hearings.
…
Yet my own favorite moment was Judge Kavanaugh’s answer to a question from Senator Mike Lee of Utah. That’s when the nominee explained one of the most important limits on the power of judges.
It’s that they can’t give advisory opinions, even to the president (or the Senate).
…
Which is why — here’s hope for even the Democrats — not even presidents can be sure of what the judges they nominate will do once they’re seated for life.”
A clown has taken his turn at the circus.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35546/total-fraud-booker-claimed-defy-rules-releasing-ryan-saavedra
“TOTAL FRAUD: Booker Claimed To Defy Rules In Releasing ‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh Emails. He Lied.
…
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) went on a grandstanding rant during Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Thursday, saying that he would “knowingly” violate Senate rules by releasing “confidential” Kavanaugh emails.
Booker, a 2020 presidential hopeful, then released the emails, saying, “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
But, as it turns out, there is a major problem with Booker’s theatrics: Booker is a liar.
“We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker’s staff asked us to,” said Bill Burck, who is the George W. Bush records representative that led the review of Kavanaugh’s records. “We were surprised to learn about Senator Booker’s histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make public documents public.” ”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35534/fail-cory-bookers-damning-documents-show-kavanaugh-emily-zanotti
“Ultimately, he [Kavanaugh] comes to the conclusion that he properly understands the role of Supreme Court jurisprudence in handling questions of race and national security. If anything, the documents conclusively demonstrate that Kavanaugh is not, in fact, a racist.
Booker says he committed the ultimate sacrifice to release this very pertinent and important information, and his tweet “releasing” the “controversial” documents has thousands of retweets even though the documents don’t really damage Kavanaugh at all.
Oddly, it seems as though Booker simply did a search of Kavanaugh’s documents for key terms like “racial profiling” and collected the results without really reading through them first.
Not quite the “Spartacus” moment Booker was hoping for.”