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Kennedy to retire - USSC will swing even further right

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by NewRoxFan, Jun 27, 2018.

  1. MojoMan

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    More lies from the Democrat left smear machine. This time, Christina Miranda is publicly walking back her claim that the incident did happen and that she had heard about it in school. The revised story: "That it happened or not, I have no idea, I can't say that it did or didn't."

    How many outright lies and how many smear campaigns have there been by the Democrats just during this confirmation process alone? I have honestly lost count.

    They do this all the time and have been doing it for decades. These people and their associates in the media are the lowest form of slime and cannot be trusted at all.
     
  2. Deckard

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    No kidding. What a huge difference. Franken should have never resigned from the Senate, in my opinion, for kidding around when he was being a comic for a living, yet the Democratic leadership forced him out anyway. What a contrast.
     
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    You are a shameless liar.
     
  4. MojoMan

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    It was not necessary or appropriate for Franken to be forced out and Franken should have told them to stick it where the sun doesn't shine. Now the voters of Minnesota may have well been embarrassed enough to replace him at the ballot box. And who would have faulted them for that?

    But if the Democrats thought that wrongfully forcing Franken out they would therefore be empowered to wrongfully, dishonestly and unjustly impose themselves on their opponents, because they want to, they were obviously mistaken.
     
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    Yeah, there is a huge difference. The accusations against Franken were credible and specific. The accusations against Kavanaugh weren't credible and have almost no details....and the details provided have been pretty much debunked by those she claimed were there.

    Unsurprisingly though, you think nothing should have come from the credible accusations against a Democrat and you think the world should end due to non-credible accusations against a conservative justice.
     
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    Comments like this will help ensure that they don't get the opportunity because it suggests that Democrats are willing to destroy the country over not getting their way on a SCOTUS nomination and are undeserving of leadership.
     
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    Where did you come up with that? There are serious issues with this Supreme Court nominee that need to be investigated. The Democratic leadership overreacted to Franken the Comedian. The Republican leadership, in contrast, are underreacting to Kavanaugh's personal history by refusing to allow the Senate to view all the documents pertaining to the man, refusing to investigate accusations of sexual assault, and ignoring that the man has previously lied to Congress under oath.
     
  8. MojoMan

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    No, that has all been done and done. The Democrat's blatantly obvious delay schemes have run their course. It is now time for the Senate to vote on this nomination.
     
  9. Deckard

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    You are free to say that, of course, and I ardently disagree. Again, why the rush now, when McConnell left Merrick Garland, a decent, highly respected judge, stewing for a year, not even giving the well deserving man a hearing??
     
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    Other than the multiple allegations while he was a Senator of him sexually assaulting women in public. Though the Dems silence on the claims of Karen Monahan are also telling.
     
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    Ann Althouse again on the gender and racial politics of the controversy

    https://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/09/racializing-confrontation-between.html

     
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    The accusation against Kavanaugh, only one, out of the blue, that even DiFi doesn't believe is credible. My guess is that the Dems were hoping that more women would come forward with similar stories about Judge Kavanaugh like what happened to Franken. None have, in fact the opposite has happened.
     
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    We have beat the Merrick Garland horse to death. All the points have been made, remade, and then remade again dozens if not hundreds of times here in this forum. You know the answers. I know the answers. This has become tiresome.

    You guys have really sh_t yourselves in particularly nasty fashion with this latest smear campaign. Ford asked to testify, even though she has literally no evidence, and cannot even name when or where it supposedly happened. The Republicans said yes and offered her the options of either a public or private hearing. Now it appears she is not going to show.

    Whine and pout all you want, but this has probably been the most unconscionably dishonest and nasty smear campaign in American history. Lie and deny if you cannot restrain yourself, but it is too late to try to convince anyone. Everyone knows what happened here and why it happened. If there are any more despicably dishonest people on Earth than the American Democrat left, I am sure I do not know who they might be.
     
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    So, basically we should ignore concerns about honesty and extreme judicial activism (let alone accusations of sexual assault of a teen) about a lifetime nominee to the highest court in our land and hey, if it turns out our concerns are true, we can always simply impeach him?

    So obviously, the possibility of impeachment isn't that comforting to people with very real concerns about this nominee. Instead, it seems much more reasonable, and better for the country, to more thoroughly vet this nominee.

    What is the rush to push this questionable nominee through? The USSC survived months of an empty seat when Garland was blocked from consideration. What harm would be caused by a few more weeks of careful investigation and vetting?
     
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    All this talk about the allegation against Kavanaugh and I'm still here wondering why someone who is implicated in violating campaign finance laws and would have been indicted on a felony if he were not the POTUS still gets to nominate supreme court justices?
     
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    Ouch, you must be hurting. I'm serious.
     
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    If elections have consequences, then why the **** is Justice Garland not on the court now?

    Why is it they only seem to have consequences for the side that 50-60% of the voting population agrees with, and have seemingly no consequences for the side that only 30-40% of people align with?

    Stop being such a masochistic b**** - this is a dumb response for reasons that have previously been outlined to you.
     
  19. Cohete Rojo

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    I’m laughing at people that don’t know about the Biden Rule.
     
  20. NewRoxFan

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    These serious concerns have gone through a "thorough and fair investigation"... or so says the chief counsel for nominations, who had to delete tweets expressing his true feelings...



    But as most folks know, twitter is forever...

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