Senators are questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh today.We've got it live streaming after the jump.
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Eyes On Fox commented
2018-09-06 16:20:36 -0400
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Kevin,
The SCOTUS damage is already done and set in stone for the rest of my lifetime. It’s fine and dandy that Dems want to use a corrupt scumbag like Trump as a whip to get their base out to vote. But even a landslide in the midterms, at best, will only create a check on the dirtbag. You can’t reverse course until you control the White House as well. And the earliest that’ll be is in 2020. And, quite frankly, the blue wave probably won’t help in the Senate in 2018 either because the math is so heavily in favor of the Republicans.
Hate to be a downer but the mess our Scumbag-in-Chief has made isn’t easily reversible. In the case of SCOTUS it isn’t reversible in my lifetime. So for all those who scream lesson learned, I’ll vote this time for sure or won’t waste by vote protesting Hillary. Well, folks, I hate to break the news to you but it’s too late. You f—ked up too badly. Live with the consequences of your idiocy.
The SCOTUS damage is already done and set in stone for the rest of my lifetime. It’s fine and dandy that Dems want to use a corrupt scumbag like Trump as a whip to get their base out to vote. But even a landslide in the midterms, at best, will only create a check on the dirtbag. You can’t reverse course until you control the White House as well. And the earliest that’ll be is in 2020. And, quite frankly, the blue wave probably won’t help in the Senate in 2018 either because the math is so heavily in favor of the Republicans.
Hate to be a downer but the mess our Scumbag-in-Chief has made isn’t easily reversible. In the case of SCOTUS it isn’t reversible in my lifetime. So for all those who scream lesson learned, I’ll vote this time for sure or won’t waste by vote protesting Hillary. Well, folks, I hate to break the news to you but it’s too late. You f—ked up too badly. Live with the consequences of your idiocy.
Kevin Koster commented
2018-09-06 01:47:00 -0400
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Truman is again correct, and hopefully the Dems who stayed home in 2016 have learned their lesson – or there will be much worse consequences in 2019, including the wholesale gutting of Social Security and Medicare, and the replacement of Clarence Thomas with a 45 year old Hard Right Justice.
The key moments today were Kavanaugh’s refusals to show principle when asked about significant issues – he refused to address Fred Guttenberg and instead gave an indirect ramble about general thoughts rather than admit he had openly and viciously turned his back on a father who no longer has a daughter thanks to policies Kavanaugh happily supports. And he refused to answer truthfully about his positions about presidential immunity from inquiries. He gave vague answers that would allow the Pence White House to wiggle free of any questions they don’t want to answer and any situation for which they don’t want to be held to account. And he openly lied about his position on Roe and female choice. Sure, Roe is a precedent, and one that’s been upheld. But that kind of thing didn’t stop the last SC from erasing 40 years of precedent to wipe out labor law with the Janus decision in June. Anyone thinking that Roe or any other decision the Right hates is safe from attack now is deluding themselves. Kavanaugh is refusing to answer if he thinks Roe was decided correctly – which is a dog whistle to his supporters that should tell everyone that he will vote to overturn it in any way he can.
Jeffrey Toobin reconfirmed this in his analysis today.
The key moments today were Kavanaugh’s refusals to show principle when asked about significant issues – he refused to address Fred Guttenberg and instead gave an indirect ramble about general thoughts rather than admit he had openly and viciously turned his back on a father who no longer has a daughter thanks to policies Kavanaugh happily supports. And he refused to answer truthfully about his positions about presidential immunity from inquiries. He gave vague answers that would allow the Pence White House to wiggle free of any questions they don’t want to answer and any situation for which they don’t want to be held to account. And he openly lied about his position on Roe and female choice. Sure, Roe is a precedent, and one that’s been upheld. But that kind of thing didn’t stop the last SC from erasing 40 years of precedent to wipe out labor law with the Janus decision in June. Anyone thinking that Roe or any other decision the Right hates is safe from attack now is deluding themselves. Kavanaugh is refusing to answer if he thinks Roe was decided correctly – which is a dog whistle to his supporters that should tell everyone that he will vote to overturn it in any way he can.
Jeffrey Toobin reconfirmed this in his analysis today.
truman commented
2018-09-05 12:57:12 -0400
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More reality TV. Democrats will fuss and fume to no avail other than to burnish their Presidential aspirations. Repugs will toss some softball questions and then vote to confirm. The right-wing ideologues (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) will legislate right-wing dogma from the bench for the next decade.
All of this would not have happened had a few thousand lazy Democrats in Pa, Michigan and Wisconsin (or Iowa) walked to the polls and voted for Hillary. She would have filled Scalia’s seat with a progressive rather than that gargoyle Gorsuch. Kennedy would have deferred his retirement. Kavanugh would remain on the Court of Appeals.
What if.
All of this would not have happened had a few thousand lazy Democrats in Pa, Michigan and Wisconsin (or Iowa) walked to the polls and voted for Hillary. She would have filled Scalia’s seat with a progressive rather than that gargoyle Gorsuch. Kennedy would have deferred his retirement. Kavanugh would remain on the Court of Appeals.
What if.