Kavanaugh, Day Two

Into the abyss! Or, "Second verse, same as the first".

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[narciso]

It's like the Seinfeld yadda yadda segment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tom_Maguire/status/1037378723064860672

[Captain Hate]

If nothing else, the ewok beating on that fraud Tapper is some of his best work:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=376914

[Eye Doctor .]

Tommy boy

What say you about Mueller's handling of Sandy Berger

[Pinandpuller]

My Hoffa Mad Lib would have been, "Immigrants and faggots." Extra Credit if you know the reference. If you need a hint the writer hails from Indiana.

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

Join me tomorrow night at 7:00pm MDT in Billings, Montana for a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY! Get your tickets here: https://t.co/fyHduA2Peo

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018

[henry]

the ever changing story smear:

Roll Call @rollcall

Prosecutors allege Hunter spent campaign donation money on at least five women, as marital infidelity whispers swirl bit.ly/2NhBMlI

[Marlene]

Howie Carr is hoping that President Trump holds a rally for Geoff Diehl. Howie said that the President will hold 40 rallies before the election. I doubt he will give up the chance to campaign against the fake Indian!

[Frau Fragezeichen]

henry - thanks **so** much.
I, of little faith in my ability to follow directions, simple or not, stopped short when I saw all the code.

[narciso]

That's why he went on family vacations, since when do expedia vacations get scrutinized anyways.

[Eye Doctor .]

Have you noticed that Tommy boy never addresses questions about Mueller's well documented history of corruption?

[Captain Hate]

Even when the Children of the Cornhole have the right underlying motive, they still get everything wrong and sound like idiots:

https://newrepublic.com/article/151031/david-remnick-steve-bannon-revolt-elites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=090518_daily&utm_source=TNR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=84f04de371-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_04_daily_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_50cc843886-84f04de371-63868125

[daddy]

If you watch Ms Klobucher quizzing Kavanaugh this minute watch her right hand gestures. She keeps playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. You can actually play the game with her. I throw out paper and she just came out with a rock. Whew. Now she is throwing out paper.

[Tom R]

Sundance on why Nike went full SJW.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/04/nike-and-levis-strauss-political-business-strategy-the-much-bigger-geopolitical-and-trade-picture/

[Pinandpuller]

James D

Are you and GUS talking about The Mandela Effect or necklacing shitty hack reporters? I'm fine either way.

[Eye Doctor .]

Tommy boy

Should Hillary be indicted?

[Extraneus]

Did it work, Frau? I just tried it on a random WSJ story and it only had the snippet.

[narciso]

Good grief, you have to work to get things this wrong.

[daddy]

We need better protesters at this Hearing..

The last screamer did even a worse job than Grandpa Simpson and "Epa, Epa, Epa!"

[Frau Friede]

"Just so you know I wrote my 2:51 before I read your 2:41. We are cool.

Peace in the Valley...

[Captain Hate]

Even by their standards it was as dense as a neutron star.

[Pinandpuller]

Kev Bluebird

I heard a more apt term I think it's Aussie. Stare of the magpie.

[hoyden]

There's so much meme floating around it was bound to bust out as a midweek TWIP.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/midweek-in-pictures-nike-edition.php

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--For anyone who believes in the concept of Constitutional rule of law, Mueller is obligated to investigate any possible leads that are related to possible Russian collusion.--

Including things like the pre-comma preface of that sentence might be why some people get irked Tom. Isn't it kind of the flip side of "only idiots believe in 4D chess" to say people who believe "in the concept of Constitutional rule of law" think A and anyone who thinks B by necessity do not?
It's very possible to believe Mueller's entire mandate, whatever it is, is an affront to the rule of law.

[Frau Friede]

henry - I tried it on a NYT [spit!] article and it did not work.

[Pinandpuller]

Leahy wouldn't survive a chiropractic adjustment.

[Frau Friede]

daddy - after reading the Powerline articles about Ms. Krowbar, I do not want to see her ever. She is a scorpion.

[Captain Hate]

Tapper is pretty irrelevant. The vast majority of the country couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2018 03:05 PM (/tuJf)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Gotta love this CNN headline at memorandum

"Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say."

Non existent sources confirm Woodward's non existent sources have prompted a non existent witch hunt in the WH.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I could pick Tapper out. Whatever the crime is, he's the perp.

[Doubting Tomas]

Take your time in your answer Ignats.

Well done Biblical Scholar. You managed to learn there is a connection to WORKS beyond Grace..

Now please compare/contrast the work of Matthew 23..

Posted by: No Doubt | September 05, 2018 at 10:21 AM

[Beasts of England]

I'm only watching the hearings to see if Zina Bash gives me another secret sign...

[GusTard]

Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist with links to both ex-Trump aide Roger Stone and Infowars host Alex Jones, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., Friday as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, his attorney says.

[daddy]

It's very possible to believe Mueller's entire mandate, whatever it is, is an affront to the rule of law.

I believe that the Public not knowing what Mueller's entire mandate is is an affront to the rule of Law.

[Kaveman Rules]

It came at an interesting moment, because Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been caught by Leahy with a line of questioning for which the nominee clearly had not been prepared. It involved an episode while Kavanaugh worked in the White House counsel's office under President George W. Bush. In 2004, it was revealed by Charlie Savage, then working at the Boston Globe, that Republican staff members on the Judiciary Committee had penetrated the computer files of the Democratic senators on that committee that were concerned with judicial nominees, and that, in addition to using the purloined files to their own advantage, those staffers shared them with the media.

The revelation comes as the battle of judicial nominees is reaching a new level of intensity. Last week, President Bush used his recess power to appoint Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, bypassing a Democratic filibuster that blocked a vote on his nomination for a year because of concerns over his civil rights record. Democrats now claim their private memos formed the basis for a February 2003 column by conservative pundit Robert Novak that revealed plans pushed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, to filibuster certain judicial nominees. Novak is also at the center of an investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA agent whose husband contradicted a Bush administration claim about Iraqi nuclear programs.
Citing "internal Senate sources," Novak's column described closed-door Democratic meetings about how to handle nominees..

[Kaveman Rules]

RNC...the Hacktivist Party

[Eye Doctor .]

Tommy boy

Do you see Mueller following any leads in the Clinton direction?

[Frau Friede]

Michael Moore could nourish a starving Venezuelan family for a week.

Recipe: How to cook a coot

[Kaveman Rules]

Creative Ways to Dodge Inconvenient Questions..Ignatz gets published.😎

[Pinandpuller]

Miss Marple

You should look for something called Caragena or the Siberian Peashrub. It's actually a leguminous bush with thorns. As far as I know it can be trimmed well but it may go good under windows. If I was escaping a fire I'd throw a blanket over it. Africans put something around their camps and villages called a boma to deter lions IYKWIM.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Take your time in your answer Ignats.--

Seems to me it's you turn to answer a few, weedhuffer.

[Frau Friede]

Watch your step...
Leakage. SOB

[narciso]

Yes but like cooking a large toad, it could cause nightmarish hallucinations, then again they at used to that.

[daddy]

Ms. Krowbar, I do not want to see her ever. She is a scorpion.

Ms Krowbar--Ha! Love the nickname, Frau. I don't trust her as far as I could throw her but she didn't lay a glove on him.

Thought Ted Cruz who followed by pointing this out as an opener was quite effective:

He just explained how Judge Merrick Garland joined Judge Kavanaugh in 27 of 28 of Judge Kavanaugh’s written Opinions on the DC Court, and Judge Kavanaugh joined Judge Garland in 28 of 30 of Garland’s written Opinions on the DC Court. So 97% and 93% agreement between the 2 in actual real world rulings.

The Dem's ought to be giving Kavanaugh standing Ovations for that.

[maryrose]

Jane:
All the Russia collusion and law breaking was done by Hillary,
Obama the FBI the DOJ and all the heads who have lost the heir jobs .
Mueller has his boys deliberately barking up the wron tree so his involvement in Uranium 1 and other crimes like protecting Whitey Bulger and harassing g an innocent person Hatfill will go unpunished.
Compromised SC, dossier Rosenstein compromised and a missing in action AG.
That is why the investigation is upside down going after the wrong people.
Until Dems are indicted like Podesta and the rest of the cabal the rule of law is being violated and there is no equal justice.

[Threadkiller]

Michael Medved says that breaking news may preempt his otherwise Trump loving show.

Apparently a top Trump appointee is revealing that the 25th Amendment may be put into play due to Trump's lack of fitness for the job.

Medved sounded as serious as a heart attack, and he is keeping his eye on the wire-feed to let the audience know exact details as soon as they come through.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Moore would give maggots indigestion.

[Jim Eagle]

Frau,

You are way too conservative in dietary ways. 3 months minimum.

Jane is right. This has been a free Yale Law School/Harvard Law School lecture on the constitution, and how top scholars look at it. There are people paying $80K a year to learn just as much.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--So 97% and 93% agreement between the 2 in actual real world rulings.

The Dem's ought to be giving Kavanaugh standing Ovations for that.--

Should I be worried about that?

[lurkersusie]

Protester vs auctioneer at Twitter hearing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cspan/status/1037415541558964224/video/1

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

ChiTown Lurker reports on CNBC reporting on a NYT op ed by a "Senior Administration Official" who says there aare several members working to frustrate the President's "misguided impulses."

Contradictions in the piece are already being noted.

[Tom R]

Iggy @ 3:43,

IMO a Special Counsel investigation is 100% Constitutional. A Trump supporter can't say the Mueller SC investigation is an affront to the rule of law and then turn around and call for Sessions to appoint a new SC to investigate the alleged criminal corruption within the Obama administration.

I explicitly used that phrase because IMO anyone who professes to be a supporter of the Constitutional rule of law should also support a thorough investigation into all possible leads in order to determine if any federal crimes were committed. For Mueller not to interview Stone and Corsi would mean he was not conducting a thorough investigation. Likewise, Mueller is also obligated to follow any leads that point to Russian collusion between Democrats and the Hillary campaign as well. There is an obvious bone of contention on whether he is doing that or not.

[maryrose]

25th amendment treatment was refuted by the President ‘s physician.
Dems engage in a lot of magical thinking.

[Pinandpuller]

daddy

So what does that spell, Souter Jr?

[Threadkiller]

Apparently this is the wire-feed Medved is relying on:

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

No paywall. Imagine that.

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

Article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

[Dead Run]

"Seems to me it's you turn to answer a few, weedhuffer."

There you go again..😎

[Jim Eagle]

Its like the baggage handlers at JFK unloading a 747. If I am a Dem senator, I am thinking, "Why the hell did I listen to Soros and sacrifice my neat little gig here."

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

TK,

I noticed the no pay wall, too.

Load of crap. is my cultured opinion.

[Frau Friede]

daddy - if you have not seen the smiling scorpion exposed, here is Powerline:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-is-this-woman-smiling-2.php

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-is-this-woman-smiling.php

[Dead Run]

Jon Lovett of Crooked Media and Pod Save America, noted, “Tucker Carlson’s transition from conservative serious-ish writer to blustery CNN guy to Daily Caller troll to race-baiting Fox News host is like ice core data on what led to this moment in our politics.”

In June, Conor Friedersdorf, wrote in The Atlantic, “Carlson squandered his considerable God-given talent for scrupulously true commentary, opting instead for clickbait at The Daily Caller or dumbed-down demagoguery at Fox.”

There’s something to all the liberal hand-wringing. In a speech Carlson gave to CPAC in 2009, he pleaded with conservative journalists to focus on reporting rather than punditry. He held up The New York Times as a standard bearer, begging writers “to go out there and find what is happening….not just interpret things they hear in the mainstream media.” His pleas were met with boos.

But just six years later, Carlson was calling out The New York Times for pro-Clinton advocacy, and in June 2018 accused the paper of blatantly lying to the American people about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Bashar Al-Assad, and Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

If we can figure out how an intelligent writer and conservative can go from writing National Magazine Award–nominated articles to shouting about immigrants on Fox News, perhaps we can understand what is happening to this country, or at least to journalism, in 2018.

If you ask his former editors, they’ll say they’re wistful when they think about the old Tucker Carlson..

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The 25th Amendment. Oh good grief.
Can we stop Charlie Browning the football?
They lie. They're liars. Liars lie. That is who they are.
Half the time we get snookered by half baked lies that aren't even intended for us. They're just hackneyed corn pone pellets for the starving prog tadpoles like poor demented Ben.

[Old Lurker]

Any names, TK?

Didn't think so.

[daddy]

Should I be worried about that?

Yep Iggy. We should be the guys who are worried, not the Dems.

[Was JC talking to Ben or Ignazi?]

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

[Clarice Feldman]

In my opinion the Special Counsel law is unconstitutional and I am a lawyer.If a crime has been committed--and eaven knows we have plenty of criminal laws, prosecute, If it is believed a federal official has acted outside the law impeachment is the method.
Anything else leads to crap like we now have. A truly unrestricted witch hunt by prosecutors with unlimited resources , including garbage laws on conspiracy and obstruction.

[maryrose]

Earth to TomR
Mueller is not investigating Hullary take too long and get out of control like the current one. and company because there have been No, not one interview or indictment in over a year.
I do not believe in a special counsel for ANYTHING.
I was told Sessions assigned Horowitz and Huber to investigate Hillary and the FISA warrants.
Where are their reports?
We needed them like yesterday.
Special counsels take too long .

[Beasts of England]

MSNBC just broke into the hearing with the Times article. These people are fucking nuts...

[Eye Doctor .]

Tommy boy

You have to have a crime to set up a special counsel.

They set up a special counsel without stating a crime, jackass

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--There you go again.--

Yes, but there you don't. You're just like the demented Eye Doctor; you're full of sophomoric Hamilton Burger direct but are frightened of even acknowledging you've been asked one.
The mark of the pathologically insecure.
No doubt stems from your embarrassment over that SS question you flubbed so badly years ago and your infamous negative times a negative soliloquy.

[Jim Eagle]

Okay, full disclosure. I wrote that OpEd in the NY Times. Yes, I asked them to keep my name out of it, since I still have to live next to neighbors who still have Stassen for President signs up in their yards. They agreed.

It was heartfelt.

[Old Lurker]

Clarice "A truly unrestricted witch hunt by prosecutors with unlimited resources"

For complete accuracy, please insert "biased partisan hack" between "by" and "prosecutors"

You're welcome.

[Pinandpuller]

The problem with liberals is they don't often survive the conversion to conservative.

[Tom R]

The NY Times oped is just more evidence to me that Trump is over the target and the hammer is about to drop.

[Billy Graham prays for Ignazi]

Q:
A prominent businessman in our town makes a big show of being an active Christian, but over the years many people in the community have learned not to trust him. Does the Bible say anything about people like this?
A:
I’m always saddened whenever I hear of someone who claims to follow Jesus but has a bad reputation because of the way they live. It’s not limited to those in business, of course; anyone can bring shame to the name of Christ by their moral or ethical failures.

Some of Jesus’ strongest words were directed at those who claimed to believe in God and follow His law, and yet denied Him by the way they lived. On the surface, they may have appeared good and righteous, but in their hearts they were selfish and unconcerned about others, and it showed in their actions. Jesus condemned them for their hypocrisy, and warned us not to be like them. He said, “You hypocrites!… You have neglected the more important matters of the law — justice, mercy and faithfulness” (Matthew 23:23).

Don’t let this one person’s failures keep you from Christ, and don’t use someone’s apparent hypocrisy as an excuse to turn your back on Him. Christ alone is worthy of our commitment, and He alone can change our hearts and make us into the people He wants us to be. God’s will is for us to be “pure and blameless… filled with the fruit of righteousness” (Philippians 1:10-11).

[maryrose]

Parts of my post ended up in the wrong place
These loud mouth jerks spew their venom and are kicked out.
It is almost irrelevant now and they just go on with the answers
Wallace said earlier after Whitehouse’s ramblings:
I will never get that half and hour of my life back again.

[daddy]

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

I believe that is the same rationale the Times used when they published the manifesto by the UniBomber.

[Threadkiller]

Since the hammer hasn't dropped, wait and see prevails.

[Captain Hate]

I hope you're right, Tom. My thoughts are they're trying to distract from the embarrassment of the Kavanaugh hearings but I'd greater prefer you being right.

[derwill]

Wow, that NYT op-ed was so vague it in essence said nothing at all.

[Eye Doctor .]

Iggy

You got a question? Ask if fool

[daddy]

So Rubio is gay?

[Old Lurker]

I call BS on JiB claiming to have written that letter to the NYT.

As long as we have known him, could any of us imagine that Jack, were he in that position feeling that way, would not stand up tall, explain his reasons, then resign his post in public, letting the chips fall where they may?

That used to be what honor demanded of a gentleman.

[daddy]

Listening to Howie Carr having laughs at the expense of Alex Jones.

[Barry Obama]

Yes, daddy

[Jim Eagle]

Democrats: The Party of Large Display Posters.

[Captain Hate]

So Rubio is gay?

Jeanette's a gorgeous beard.

[Threadkiller]

Medved is reading the anonymous essay. He is very emotional about it.

[Old Lurker]

The funny thing is, the NYT still thinks any thinking person trusts them when they say the writer is known to them and holds a senior position on Trump's team.

I am still chuckling.

[Old Lurker]

Gave up on Medved many moons back.

(Learned that timing device from Kev)

[Frau Nase Voll]

Stop the World...
We've already seen the results of agencies without oversight--CFPB aka Warren's Wonder Baby.

Re: Special Counsel- Look what was sold and what was delivered.

Obama's czars operated independently and without official confirmation.

[He hates fruits]

Maxwell Trumps Nerf Hammer

https://youtu.be/ErppAlOIGQE

[Captain Hate]

Medved is reading the anonymous essay. He is very emotional about it.

He's just disappointed Disagreement Day is tomorrow.

[Jim Eagle]

Maybe Bob Woodward wrote it. I mean he knows how anonymous people talk, and write.

[maryrose]

Sounds like Omarosa to me.
If not for Donald Trump- no one would know who she is.
Wrt NYT:
Woodward book was supposed to be the giant killer.
Now largely discredited, the editors at NYT come up with this anonymous letter.
Not laying s glove on Kavanaugh.
Three strikes you are out. Sorry NYT- that dog won’t hunt.

[Beasts of England]

I notice the anonymous author doesn't have the stones to actually quit his or her job in the White House. A reg'lar profile in courage!! lol

[He hates]

I stopped watching Moores flicks with SICKO.

Imagine him showing healthcare in Cuba surpasses our own...pfft!

[Pinandpuller]

More anti burglar tips: hide your money under the soap or in your work boots.

[Jim Eagle]

Is Chris Coons the jerk that O'Donnell was supposed to crush if not for the total destruction of her? Because, I see a JV kid trying to impress the starting QB of a championship team, and failing.

[derwill]

If the writer was really who the Times has claimed, and was really acting as he/she claimed the writer would have given specific instances where Trump almost did something crazy and the WH “resistance” stopped it. The only specific thing named was his reluctance to expel Russians (of course) over the poison attack in Britain before more evidence was brought forth that it was Russia.

[Captain Hate]

I'm sure Levin will have Constitutional scholar Patterico on the show for a TruCon perspective.