Feinstein’s Disgrace

The California senator has plunged the nation into a bitter fight from which it will not soon emerge.

“…We do not endorse candidates for office. And if we did, we wouldn’t endorse a progressive Democrat. We are, however, sorely tempted to suggest Californians vote for Dianne Feinstein’s challenger, Kevin de León, in November. Her unethical handling of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh turned a knotty situation into a national nightmare.

“One theory I have heard espoused repeatedly,” said Susan Collins toward the end of her speech in support of Kavanaugh, “is that our colleague, Senator Feinstein, leaked Professor Ford’s letter at the eleventh hour to derail this process. I want to state this very clearly: I know Senator Dianne Feinstein extremely well, and I believe that she would never do that. I knew that to be the case before she even stated it at the hearing. She is a person of integrity, and I stand by her.”

Count us skeptical…”

https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-editors/editorial-feinsteins-disgrace

This is a video Captured Immediately After Senator Feinstein Read the FBI Report on Kavanaugh

Watch this video. This woman knows she is involved in a terrible lie, a terrible miscarriage of justice. She overcame her conscience and continued with her twisted sick political attack. An attack designed to destroy the life of a distinguished man for no reason other than politics.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1047924429127389184

Recap of the flimsiness of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations

Max Madison:

She refused to hand over the results of her polygraph

She refused to hand over her 2012 therapist’s notes

She said she was afraid to fly, but has flown dozens of times. 

Since she did in fact fly, she offered no other reason for the delay

She said she wanted anonymity but contacted [the Washington Post] multiple times

Said she got advice from “beach friends” but didn’t mention that the primary one was a former FBI lawyer, Monica McLean, who worked for Preet Bharara, a man Trump fired. She also failed to mention, when talking of her Beach friends at the hearing, that Monica was sitting right behind her. 

She had a perfect memory of 1982 but couldn’t remember basic things from the previous 10 weeks

She’d been drinking. 

She changed the year of the alleged attack

She named 4 people, but had no backers

She couldn’t remember how she got home even though her story had her escaping the house far from home, pre-cell phone.

She gave no location or any details that could be researched for verification.

She never told anyone and never claimed PTSD prior to Kavanaugh’s name circulating 30 years later.

She said that she put the 2nd door on her house because of PTSD, but evidence shows it was to get around zoning laws to create a rentable apartment.

She said she didn’t know that Grassley offered to come to her, even though it was broadcast nationally.

She feigned no knowledge of polygraphs even though her ex’s sworn statement said she’d coached Monica McLean how to beat it in the 1990s, and in any case her profession should have at least well acquainted her with it.

She co-authored a paper on repressed memory creation years before she claimed to have one

Nothing is known of her pharmacology, but given her past alcoholism, her visits to a therapist and her general presentation, odds are high that it’s extensive.

She scrubbed her social media. We know from a pussy hat photo that she was rabidly anti-Trump. 

She had zero family or friends with her, not from the 80s nor from today. She was surrounded only by Democrat Party handlers.

Constant cries of bravery & “nothing to gain” vs a $700,000 GoFundMe and a career boosted a la Anita Hill

Literally all there is her word vs all of the above. Not a shred of evidence.

I would add to this excellent summary – one of those she claimed at the “event” in question, Leland Keyser, whom she characterized as a lifelong friend, informed the committee that McLean had pressured her in a vain attempt to get her to change her statement to support Ford’s account

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/seedpods_from_the_garden_of_stupid.html

McConnell on The Last Few Weeks

McConnell is an experienced, disciplined, and highly effective behind the scene leader. I am glad he is majority leader. I congratulate him on shepherding the Kavanaugh nomination through the senate. 

Winners and Losers of the Kavanaugh Confirmation

This is a great summary of the last few weeks by John Nolte and I encourage you to click over and read it.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/06/nolte-winners-and-losers-of-the-kavanaugh-confirmation/

The Mainstream Media Fraud

Steve McCann:

“…The conjoined Democratic Party and mainstream media’s despicable character assassination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh combined with the two-year single-minded determination to destroy the Trump presidency by any means possible has irretrievably awakened a preponderance of the citizenry.  In a recent poll, 70% of all Americans and 90% of Republicans have lost faith in the self-styled mainstream media.  They are imploding due to the self-inflicted destruction of their credibility and integrity, which has exposed the fraud this cabal has carried out over the past 85 years.  The damage done to this nation and its citizenry is incalculable.

There have many frauds perpetrated on the American people.  Perhaps the most notable, and consequential, was the media persuading an overwhelming majority of citizens that journalism is not only a noble profession, but one that always strived to be fair and balanced.  Journalism, in this or any nation, has never been fair and balanced.  Nor has it been afforded the exalted status of a profession, as the definition of a profession is an occupation that involves prolonged training and formal qualifications.  Journalism encompasses neither…”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/the_mainstream_media_fraud.html

The Problem With #BelieveSurvivors

It’s important to listen to those who come forward—and also to those accused.

EMILY YOFFE:

“…Even as we must treat accusers with seriousness and dignity, we must hear out the accused fairly and respectfully, and recognize the potential lifetime consequences that such an allegation can bring. If believing the woman is the beginning and the end of a search for the truth, then we have left the realm of justice for religion.

Whether an investigation takes place at a school, at a workplace, or in the criminal-justice system, neutral fact-finding must apply, regardless of how disturbing we find the offense, the group identity of the accused, or the political leanings of those involved. History demonstrates that ascribing honesty or dishonesty, criminality or righteousness solely on the basis of gender or race doesn’t increase the amount of equity in the world…”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/572083/

Republicans Have The 2018 Momentum. Here’s Why.

Ben Shapiro:

“…In the space of three weeks, Democratic fortunes have turned in a shocking way. Just three weeks ago, on September 13, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) came forward with an allegation of sexual abuse against Brett Kavanaugh; just three days later, Christine Blasey Ford herself came forward in an interview with The Washington Post. At that time, Kavanaugh’s nomination fell into severe jeopardy. Democrats held an eight-point lead on the generic Congressional ballot according to the RealClearPolitics poll average. According to the latest Economist, Marist, and IBD polls, those numbers are now below six points. IBD has the race inside the margin of error; Rasmussen does as well. The enthusiasm gap for Democrats has essentially disappeared.

So, what happened?

Democrats woke the sleeping giant.

In 2016, Republicans showed up to vote because they were afraid of Hillary Clinton. But that concern pales next to the concern Republicans now have about the possibility of Democratic governance. Republicans have been treated to a front-row seat in a display of Democratic willingness to do anything to damage conservatives. Anything…”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36798/kavanaugh-will-join-supreme-court-and-republicans-ben-shapiro

Trump’s Remarkable Week

Can we pause for a moment to consider what has transpired in the last seven days?

“…TRADE: Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced it had reached an agreement with both Mexico and Canada to revise and rebrand the North America Free Trade Agreement as the United States Mexico Canada Agreement. This announcement fulfills one of President Trump’s key pledges on the campaign trail while benefiting constituencies in important states such as Michigan (autos) and Wisconsin and Minnesota (dairy). Trump also renegotiated the Korea Free Trade Agreement and has made progress with the Europeans as well as the Japanese.

ECONOMY: The Trump Bump continues, with Friday bringing news that unemployment has reached its lowest level since 1969. Consumer confidence is high, and data from the manufacturing and service sectors indicate continued growth. No president is responsible for the state of the American economy. But fiscal and regulatory policy help. And presidents take credit or receive blame in any event.

JUDGES: Susan Collins’s announcement that she will vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh practically guarantees he will be seated on the Supreme Court in the coming days. Kavanaugh’s elevation will secure a five-vote majority of originalist and textualist judges on the high court for the first time in modern memory. Such a transformation of the federal judiciary has been a goal of Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan. The fact that it will be Donald J. Trump who will cement this victory is no small feat. On the contrary, it may turn out to be his greatest and longest-lasting achievement.

FOREIGN POLICY: President Trump is slowly and steadily re-orienting U.S. foreign policy to face the central challenge of the twenty-first century: the rise of China to great power status. Beginning with the national security strategy released at the end of 2017, and continuing through today’s announcement of a landmark review of the defense industrial base, Trump has accomplished the “pivot to Asia” that the Obama administration so often talked about…”

https://freebeacon.com/columns/trumps-remarkable-week/

Senator Collins on Her Yes Vote on Kavanaugh

I admit that I often find myself with limited patience for Senator Collins though I agree with her on most issues. Her speech on this issue is very good. I applaud Senator Collins for her comprehensive review of the Kavanaugh nomination and her principled decision to vote yes for this outstanding man.

Duke (He was Great)


Duke Ellington waves to fans when he arrived at London’s Paddington Station on Oct. 5, 1958 after traveling from Plymouth on the boat train from the S.S. Ile De France. He is scheduled to play his first concert of his forthcoming tour at the Royal Festival Hall in London. 

The Kavanaugh setup becomes clear

Patricia McCarthy:

“…With each passing day and with each bit of information that seeps out about Christine Blasey Ford, it is clearer and clearer that what the Democrats have done to Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a setup from the outset.

Most of us are relatively naïve, ready to believe what our news outlets put forth.  We have open minds and were ready and willing to listen to Ford’s testimony and consider for ourselves if it was believable.  It was not.  Her testimony was obviously scripted, practiced, massaged, and fabricated out of whole cloth.

Ford may have seemed like a victim, not of Kavanaugh, but perhaps of her Democrat operatives.  Over the past days, however, what is nearer to the truth is that she was and is part of a faction of anti-Trump activists bent upon destroying Kavanaugh in order to deny Trump another nominee to the Supreme Court.

They have badly misjudged the wisdom and sentiment of the American people.  These Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are so deluded by their belief in their own intellectual superiority that they felt comfortable publicly, derisively attacking a man with a reputation finer than any of those who sat in judgment.  This was like Salieri sitting in judgment over the music of Mozart – preposterous.

At first, those of us paying attention were anxious to hear Ford’s story.  The bits of news that preceded her appearance before the Judiciary Committee were titillating.  Was it possible that this man, Brett Kavanaugh, with a thirty-years-plus record of impeccable judicial service to his country, had a dark side?  Then we heard Blasey Ford “testify.”  How anyone who listened to her practiced, phony childish act could believe that this was not calculated is a mystery.  She was obviously scripted, coached, and performing.

Perhaps she did not expect to have to appear before the committee.  She and her handlers may have assumed that the taint of her accusation would bring about his withdrawal from the nomination or that Trump would withdraw it.  Guess they have not been paying attention to how Trump operates or who Kavanaugh is.  They guessed wrong.

Given the numerous falsehoods of the FBI and DOJ we now are aware of – the “two front doors” lie, the fear of flying lie, the claustrophobia lie, her polygraph lies – what seems credible now is that this was a manufactured, orchestrated setup at the outset.  They used Mark Judge’s book as a template and contrived a tall tale.

Trump nominated Kavanaugh, and the left shifted into overdrive; he would be defeated by any means necessary.  Schumer said as much twenty minutes after Trump announced his nomination.  From that moment on, they would dig down deep into the reservoir of radicals willing to go to the mattresses.  Schumer likely began the plan with Feinstein.  They knew that Katz and Bromwich would come aboard.  Blasey Ford most likely volunteered her services.  Ford’s lifetime friend, retired FBI agent Monica McLean, may have been on board to help write that ridiculous letter that ended up in Feinstein’s hands.  Schooled, allegedly, in psychology, hypnosis, and all the attending versions of mind manipulation, Ford probably felt confident she could pull off the charade; she would use her baby voice to appear fragile and vulnerable.  But she did not pull it off.  There is a mighty chorus of Americans who pay attention to these issues and events.  They were not fooled.

The “narrative” of her alleged groping was vague enough to provoke doubt but wholly without corroboration.  That the persons involved in this farce thought she would be convincing without a shred of evidence is comical.  They really do think all of us outside their bubble of leftist groupthink are imbeciles.  They actually thought we would all fall for Ford’s absurd performance.  Sure, the dupes on the left loved every moment of it.  They don’t need evidence or witnesses.  They believe survivors.  Survivors of what?  Nothing.

Ford now looks like a liar and a fraud.  There is most likely a real journalist out there right now who will dig deep and write the book about this travesty a few radical leftists perpetrated on all of us.  It was all a lie.

These people feel so entitled to force their agenda upon all of us that they have lost all moral sense.  They will lie, cheat, and steal to win in the end.  That is exactly what they did.  They lied, cheated, and stole Brett Kavanaugh’s reputation, his life’s work, his love of teaching and coaching girls’ basketball.  They did it without a moment’s thought for what it meant to him or to those of us out here in this great nation.

What we saw at that hearing Thursday last week was an abomination.  It was Kafkaesque, the shameful, purposeful attempted destruction of a fine man without a kernel of evidence.  And they knew what they were doing.  Our left today is monstrous.  Leftists learned well from the Clintons’ politics of personal destruction.  It has always worked before; why not now?  Not now because of Trump.  He fights back.  And Kavanaugh stands tall.

It is hardly surprising that the Democrats who were never going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh before still will not.  The same three squishy Republicans are still on the fence, as they were before.  The red-state Democrats, with the exception of Heitkamp, are still waffling.  So, after thirty hours-plus of hearings and the additional blistering hearing of Ford and Kavanaugh a week ago, we are still exactly where were before Feinstein threw her Blasey Ford grenade into the mix, hoping to upset the whole apple cart.

Feinstein is a menace, as are Schumer, Blumenthal, Harris, Booker, Whitehouse, and Klobuchar.  They need to be voted out of office; they do not seem to have this nation’s best interests at heart.  That should be clear to everyone by now.  It is but for those hordes of paid-by-Soros protesters haranguing Republicans to vote against Kavanaugh.

If there were ever in the last forty-one years, since they kept Robert Bork off the Court, a man who should be confirmed as a justice, it is this man, Kavanaugh.  Anyone the left is this viscerally frightened of belongs on the Court.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are indeed at a crossroads.  Kavanaugh must be confirmed, and we must all vote Republican next month.  Conservative mortals, join the mighty chorus.  Call your senators.  Tell them to vote to confirm Kavanaugh and vote Republican on November 6…”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/the_kavanaugh_setup_becomes_clear.html

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