Why are the Democrats allowed to control our Government?

[Value Buy]

For the life of me, I think I have to leave the Republican party.
They have no efffing spine.
None.
Zip.
Nada.
The democrats lost the race for the Presidency they are the minority party of the Congress.
They with held information on Ford until it was too late to act, and come out and blame the Republicans for forcing a vote on the nominee.
This is idiocy to the hundreth degree.
Flake is an idiot. Always has been and how he could ever claim to be Republican is beyoond me.
I guess this is his F you to President Trump.
The Never Trumper's have won.

[Value Buy]

thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cory-booker-assault-women/

Cory Booker admits he attacked a girl when he was fifteeen years of age.
He is the hero of the Democratic party and most certainly is a candidate to run for the Presidency.
He admits to one person. How about where there is smoke there is fire.....I am welling to bet there are others. Known attackers never stop at one victim.
Cavanaugh admits to no attacks, and how do you prove a negative?
You cannot.
To have Booker up there yesterday asking loaded half questions that supposedly required a yes or no answer, but did not actually put the questions in context, should have been thrown right back at him by Cavanaugh sayinbg I refuse to answer these questions from an admmitted sexual predator.

[Gardening Grandma]

Sept 28, 2018 16:14:58 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cory-booker-assault-women/

Cory Booker admits he attacked a girl when he was fifteeen years of age.
He is the hero of the Democratic party and most certainly is a candidate to run for the Presidency.
He admits to one person. How about where there is smoke there is fire.....I am welling to bet there are others. Known attackers never stop at one victim.
Cavanaugh admits to no attacks, and how do you prove a negative?
You cannot.
To have Booker up there yesterday asking loaded half questions that supposedly required a yes or no answer, but did not actually put the questions in context, should have been thrown right back at him by Cavanaugh sayinbg I refuse to answer these questions from an admmitted sexual predator.

Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column has been the focus of disingenuous right-wing attacks that have circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years,” a spokeswoman for Booker said in an email. “These attacks ring hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of the column, which is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women — written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare — and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on him.”


www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/21/in-1992-cory-booker-admitted-to-groping-a-high-school-classmate-and-issued-a-call-for-sexual-respect/

[Tennesseer]

Sept 28, 2018 16:14:58 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cory-booker-assault-women/

Cory Booker admits he attacked a girl when he was fifteeen years of age.
He is the hero of the Democratic party and most certainly is a candidate to run for the Presidency.
He admits to one person. How about where there is smoke there is fire.....I am welling to bet there are others. Known attackers never stop at one victim.
Cavanaugh admits to no attacks, and how do you prove a negative?
You cannot.
To have Booker up there yesterday asking loaded half questions that supposedly required a yes or no answer, but did not actually put the questions in context, should have been thrown right back at him by Cavanaugh sayinbg I refuse to answer these questions from an admmitted sexual predator.

In 1992, Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote a column for his college newspaper in which he recounted the groping and used his own behavior to underscore, in starkly personal terms, how his views had shifted on gender and sexual respect. He credited his work as a peer counselor with the transformation.

In 1992, Cory Booker wrote of ‘groping’ a high school friend as they ‘fumbled upon a bed’ and issued a call for sexual respect

Maybe Kavanaugh should have owned up to it a long time ago and admit he was wrong and what he learned from that experience. Booker did.

[Tennesseer]

Sept 28, 2018 16:14:58 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cory-booker-assault-women/

Cory Booker admits he attacked a girl when he was fifteeen years of age.
He is the hero of the Democratic party and most certainly is a candidate to run for the Presidency.
He admits to one person. How about where there is smoke there is fire.....I am welling to bet there are others. Known attackers never stop at one victim.
Cavanaugh admits to no attacks, and how do you prove a negative?
You cannot.
To have Booker up there yesterday asking loaded half questions that supposedly required a yes or no answer, but did not actually put the questions in context, should have been thrown right back at him by Cavanaugh sayinbg I refuse to answer these questions from an admmitted sexual predator.

To turn it around, there are have three charges against Kavanaugh. And as you say above, where there is smoke there is fire.

See how that works!

[Gardening Grandma]

Why are you complaining about the FBI investigation? Don’t you want inly individuals of the highest caliber on the SC?

[thyme4change]

I can forgive someone who was a jerk and an idiot, if they realize they did something wrong and apologize for it.

[Bonny]

Sept 28, 2018 16:29:47 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I can forgive someone who was a jerk and an idiot, if they realize they did something wrong and apologize for it.

And stopped doing it. And educate his sons and daughters about what is consent and what is sexual assault.

[NastyWoman]

Sept 28, 2018 16:39:21 GMT -5 Bonny said:

Sept 28, 2018 16:29:47 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I can forgive someone who was a jerk and an idiot, if they realize they did something wrong and apologize for it.

And stopped doing it. And educate his sons and daughters about what is consent and what is sexual assault.

Now, now there. Didn't Kav tell us with tears in his eyes that his daughter had forgiven his accuser and was praying for her

It is all in the delivery and my  has nothing to do with the daughter but everything to do with her father.

[moon/Laura]

so because Kavanaugh doesn't admit to anything means he didn't do it? That proves he didn't? omfg.

Absolutely this FBI investigation should be done because i smell both smoke *and* bullshit.

[hurley1980]

In what world are you living in to think the democrats are controlling our government? That is a whole new level of "WTF are you seeing?"

[weltschmerz]

Sept 28, 2018 17:11:08 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

In what world are you living in to think the democrats are controlling our government? That is a whole new level of "WTF are you seeing?"

That is a whole new level of "WTF are you seeing mainlining?"

**Fixed**

[thyme4change]

Sept 28, 2018 17:11:08 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

In what world are you living in to think the democrats are controlling our government? That is a whole new level of "WTF are you seeing?"

Deep state

[weltschmerz]

Sept 28, 2018 18:46:18 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Sept 28, 2018 17:11:08 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

In what world are you living in to think the democrats are controlling our government? That is a whole new level of "WTF are you seeing?"

Deep state

Trump's lower colon.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Sept 28, 2018 16:10:15 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

For the life of me, I think I have to leave the Republican party.
They have no efffing spine.
None.
Zip.
Nada.
The democrats lost the race for the Presidency they are the minority party of the Congress.
They with held information on Ford until it was too late to act, and come out and blame the Republicans for forcing a vote on the nominee.
This is idiocy to the hundreth degree.
Flake is an idiot. Always has been and how he could ever claim to be Republican is beyoond me.
I guess this is his F you to President Trump.
The Never Trumper's have won.

You act like kavanaugh is the only viable option. There are many more conservative judges that could be put forth.

"It is impossible to say what will happen next. Kavanaugh’s confirmation is still likely, but it isn’t certain. But however this drama ends, it’s been a mess. With his furious partisanship and snarling anger, Kavanaugh is now an extraordinarily toxic nominee. And the raw exercise of power behind his confirmation is itself a powerful blow to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court."

There is a larger issue here than a conservative judge nominee.

[kadee79]

Sept 28, 2018 21:22:57 GMT -5 Rukh O'Rorke said:

Sept 28, 2018 16:10:15 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

You act like kavanaugh is the only viable option. There are many more conservative judges that could be put forth.

"It is impossible to say what will happen next. Kavanaugh’s confirmation is still likely, but it isn’t certain. But however this drama ends, it’s been a mess. With his furious partisanship and snarling anger, Kavanaugh is now an extraordinarily toxic nominee. And the raw exercise of power behind his confirmation is itself a powerful blow to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court."

There is a larger issue here than a conservative judge nominee.

There certainly is a larger issue...and I hope to HE!! the GOP feel it in Nov.!

[OldCoyote]

Out of curiosity, Now that you are getting the FBI investigation..

If the investigation results find nothing,, You all going shut your mouths and move on??

[steff]

We will never stand by quietly while old white men sit around and make decisions and laws that put women back 50 years.   We're no longer tolerating the things we cannot change, we're changing the things we can no longer tolerate. 

[tallguy]

Sept 28, 2018 22:23:20 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Out of curiosity, Now that you are getting the FBI investigation..

If the investigation results find nothing,, You all going shut your mouths and move on??

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

[OldCoyote]

Sept 28, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Sept 28, 2018 22:23:20 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Out of curiosity, Now that you are getting the FBI investigation..

If the investigation results find nothing,, You all going shut your mouths and move on??

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

I already knew that you would not.

Your Good rule is an excellent idea, to bad it will never happen!

[tallguy]

Sept 28, 2018 22:54:40 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Sept 28, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5 tallguy said:

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

I already knew that you would not.

Your Good rule is an excellent idea, to bad it will never happen!

You should have known.  I have made the point several times that even if Kavanaugh is innocent (and I don't think he is) he is still not suited for the position.  A Supreme Court seat should require a far higher standard than Kavanaugh could ever hope to meet. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Sept 28, 2018 22:43:48 GMT -5 steff said:

We will never stand by quietly while old white men sit around and make decisions and laws that put women back 50 years.   We're no longer tolerating the things we cannot change, we're changing the things we can no longer tolerate. 

Move on from what? I didn’t want him to be confirmed before yesterday.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Sept 28, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Sept 28, 2018 22:23:20 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Out of curiosity, Now that you are getting the FBI investigation..

If the investigation results find nothing,, You all going shut your mouths and move on??

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

Interesting concept.

[dezii]

Sept 28, 2018 16:10:15 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

For the life of me, I think I have to leave the Republican party.
They have no efffing spine.
None.
Zip.
Nada.
The democrats lost the race for the Presidency they are the minority party of the Congress.
They with held information on Ford until it was too late to act, and come out and blame the Republicans for forcing a vote on the nominee.
This is idiocy to the hundreth degree.
Flake is an idiot. Always has been and how he could ever claim to be Republican is beyoond me.
I guess this is his F you to President Trump.
The Never Trumper's have won.

As I scratch my head...suggest the title of this thread makes little sense...

As far as the statements in the thread by it's author...as usual ...wrong.

Regarding the information on Doctor Ford...it was well explained why  not revealed right away...As far as Senator Flake, anything but a Flake...Very conservative Senator but on this subject, knew the doings by the party's leadership was wrong and decisive...tearing the country even more apart then it is so took action to stop the disintegration of the country.

Possible u are upset about that, looking forward to such a event...seems so from my perspective , so very glad the Senator was willing to go against his party's leadership...possible even his constituencies back home, he's from a very red State.

Very brave man and as far as the Donald, any " F u Mr. President",  is long over due.

[dezii]

Sept 28, 2018 22:43:48 GMT -5 steff said:

We will never stand by quietly while old white men sit around and make decisions and laws that put women back 50 years.   We're no longer tolerating the things we cannot change, we're changing the things we can no longer tolerate. 

Hopefully that 52% approval and voting for the Donald by white woman make changes in the midterms …..punish the Donald supporters and then again in 2020.....then we can be rid of the man and start repairing the damage he wrought.....it will take years...kind of like after a natural disaster...

It will be interesting to hear the braying of his supporters...like we have here on this little forum, then....Expect a lot of "O woe is us"...

[tbop77]

Sept 28, 2018 16:10:15 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

For the life of me, I think I have to leave the Republican party.
They have no efffing spine.
None.
Zip.
Nada.
The democrats lost the race for the Presidency they are the minority party of the Congress.
They with held information on Ford until it was too late to act, and come out and blame the Republicans for forcing a vote on the nominee.
This is idiocy to the hundreth degree.
Flake is an idiot. Always has been and how he could ever claim to be Republican is beyoond me.
I guess this is his F you to President Trump.
The Never Trumper's have won.

Well....Mitch tried to warn him and god bless him, he did everything he could to ram through before the mid-terms.  Of course, President Trump, who only looks out for himself, wanted him because of his stand on indicting a sitting President.  He wasn't a good pick to begin with and clearly showed his true colors during the hearings.  What is so sad, I think the Republicans know it to, but were willing to demean the highest court in the land over politics.  Kinda like what they did with President Obama's pick.  A little snowflakely to blame the democrats for this one.  

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, according to Republican officials briefed on the conversation. While careful not to directly make the case for any would-be justice, Mr. McConnell made clear in multiple phone calls with Mr. Trump and the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, that the lengthy paper trail of another top contender, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, would pose difficulties for his confirmation. Mr. McConnell is concerned about the volume of the documents that Judge Kavanaugh has created in his 12 years on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as in his roles as White House staff secretary under President George W. Bush and assistant to Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.

cnmnewz.com/2018/07/09/trump-defies-mcconnell-with-scotus-pick/

[dezii]

Sept 28, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Sept 28, 2018 22:23:20 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Out of curiosity, Now that you are getting the FBI investigation..

If the investigation results find nothing,, You all going shut your mouths and move on??

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

Interesting and possible right on...another that should be looked at...the life time employment...when the rules were written as to ho our government would be set up and the country governed...the average longevity of the citizens was what...tops...40's...? To have so many  super seniors on the court was never considered....possible same regarding Congress too ...why it was reported yesterday...mentioned on a CNN  program...when a commentator was explaining the importance and what was going on, his daughter was surprised and outraged on how so few woman involved and so many old, old farts were making decisions that affected her and her friends...was completely turned off...Possible the kid had a point.

[jkapp]

Sept 28, 2018 16:20:43 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Sept 28, 2018 16:14:58 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-cory-booker-assault-women/

Cory Booker admits he attacked a girl when he was fifteeen years of age.
He is the hero of the Democratic party and most certainly is a candidate to run for the Presidency.
He admits to one person. How about where there is smoke there is fire.....I am welling to bet there are others. Known attackers never stop at one victim.
Cavanaugh admits to no attacks, and how do you prove a negative?
You cannot.
To have Booker up there yesterday asking loaded half questions that supposedly required a yes or no answer, but did not actually put the questions in context, should have been thrown right back at him by Cavanaugh sayinbg I refuse to answer these questions from an admmitted sexual predator.

Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column has been the focus of disingenuous right-wing attacks that have circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years,” a spokeswoman for Booker said in an email. “These attacks ring hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of the column, which is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women — written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare — and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on him.”


www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/21/in-1992-cory-booker-admitted-to-groping-a-high-school-classmate-and-issued-a-call-for-sexual-respect/

So Booker wanted to be in politics but knew he had a checkered past...so he writes a story about how bad it is to be the person he is.  And the Dems, of course, fall for that bullshit

[haapai]

Sept 28, 2018 22:54:40 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Sept 28, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5 tallguy said:

No.  There are sufficient reasons other than alleged sexual assaults to oppose the nomination.  He is not temperamentally suited to the position, nor is he intellectually and politically balanced.  Either of those should disqualify him as well.

You want a good rule?  Democratic presidents can only nominate independents or Republicans.  Republican presidents can only nominate independents or Democrats.  Since both would go to great pains to find centrists as much as possible, no ideologues from either side would ever be nominated.  The Court should decide based on the law and the Constitution.  Politics should play NO part. 
 

I already knew that you would not.

Your Good rule is an excellent idea, to bad it will never happen!

Well...actually... that's what used to happen quite a bit.  Presidents would pick someone that they liked, and by the time that justice left the bench, they were considered a reliable vote for the other bloc. 

I can't give examples, at least not without cheating and using google, but it used to be quite the joke. 

[Tennesseer]

Sept 29, 2018 8:31:00 GMT -5 jkapp said:

Sept 28, 2018 16:20:43 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column has been the focus of disingenuous right-wing attacks that have circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years,” a spokeswoman for Booker said in an email. “These attacks ring hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of the column, which is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women — written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare — and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on him.”


www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/21/in-1992-cory-booker-admitted-to-groping-a-high-school-classmate-and-issued-a-call-for-sexual-respect/

So Booker wanted to be in politics but knew he had a checkered past...so he writes a story about how bad it is to be the person he is.  And the Dems, of course, fall for that bullshit

The college column by Booker was written 26 years ago.

It's a shame Kavanaugh didn't write a column regarding his sexual assault(s) on women and what he learned from it way back too.