The most shameful moment in the history of the US Senate- and more at
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The Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings are the most shameful moment in the history of the US Senate.
High school yearbooks?
Publishing anonymous accusations?
Using Kavanaugh as a human piñata ?
Retweeting phony stories in an effort to visit harm on Kavanaugh?
Stalking and assaulting legislators?
Threatening Kavanaugh with impeachment if confirmed?
Are you f**king kidding me?
This is sick. It is diseased. I should clarify - democrats are diseased. They are mentally ill.
What this sordid process has done is demonstrate very clearly the difference between the left and the right. Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor did not see their personal lives and family destroyed. Some Republicans voted to approve them. Like Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas was lynched during his confirmation process. GOP nominees are subject to politics of personal destruction while democrat nominees are treated respectfully.
In the other day's hearing, this was again repeated. Ford was treated with deference and Kavanaugh was assailed, in particular by some of highly dubious character.
Sebastian Gorka DrG on Twitter
Blumenthal went completely off the rails
"Do you believe Anita Hill?"Then he stepped on his own rake. Blumenthal cited a Latin term to Kavanaugh that basically means "once a liar, always a liar." Blumenthal claimed to have served in Vietnam. He never did.
Remember how Ford's appearance was in doubt because she was
so afraid to fly?
Mitchell: "May I ask, Dr. Ford, how did you get to Washington?
Ford: "In an airplane."
Mitchell: "I ask that because its been reported by the press that you would not submit to an interview with the committee because of your fear of flying. Is that true?"
Ford: "I was hoping that they would come to me (in California) but I realized that was an unrealistic request."
Mitchell: "it would have been a quicker trip for me."
Ford: "That was certainly what I was hoping to avoid getting on an airplane. But I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane."
Mitchell: "You fly fairly frequently for your hobbies and you've had to fly for your work. Is that true?"
Ford: "Correct. Unfortunately."
And about this:"I was hoping that they would come to me (in California) but I realized that was an unrealistic request."Uh,
not really.In the hearing, when Ford was asked if anyone, including her lawyers, had relayed to her the committee’s offer to visit her in California, Ford refused to answer when her lawyer objected:
Question: “Okay. Was it communicated to you by your counsel or someone else that the committee had asked to interview you, and that they offered to come out to California to do so?”
Counsel: “I'm going to object, Mr. Chairman, to any call for privileged conversation between counsel and Dr. Ford.”
Question: “Could you validate that the offer was made, without her saying a word? Is it possible for that question to be answered without violating any counsel relationships?
Ford: “Can I say something to you? Do you mind if I say something to you directly? I just appreciate that you did offer that. I wasn't clear on what the offer was. If you were going to come out to see me, I would have happily hosted you and been happy to speak with you out there. I just did not -- it was not clear to me that that was the case.”
This is rather important. If her lawyers failed to present her the offer, they could find themselves sanctioned, at the very least.
The media has gone completely derelict. NBC
made public an anonymous letter making accusations at Kavanaugh. Liberals have
happily retweeted a phony story without so much as trying to check its veracity first.