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Orpheus wrote:
Y'all will bend over backwards to avoid calling these cowards and crooks what they really are. Unbelievable.
And y'all will bend over backwards to avoid keeping your eye on the ball and according these distractions exactly as much attention as they're worth: zero.
It really would be something if this hearing could be used as an opportunity to discuss constitutional philosophy or judicial interpretation or the consequences of federalism's erosion on the tension between democracy and the judiciary or any number of ideas worth spending time and energy on.
It really would be something if this hearing could be used as an opportunity to discuss constitutional philosophy or judicial interpretation or the consequences of federalism's erosion on the tension between democracy and the judiciary or any number of ideas worth spending time and energy on.
This would be awesome. And then, as part of that, senators could consult his records to see if his high-minded answers actually match his practical application of law, or if he is just saying whatever it takes to make it through the...
So has he been grilled about his views on presidential investigations and deference to the executive branch by the judiciary?
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So has he been grilled about his views on presidential investigations and deference to the executive branch by the judiciary?
I haven’t been able to watch since this morning, but I’d expect little of that to show up on day one.
If you ask much about a topic on day one of a hearing like this, majority tends to scold you for bringing it up again on subsequent days (accuse you of rehashing, etc), and may work to narrow or limit your questioning. Today is also likely to lean heavily on character witnesses, if I recall....which is another reason that handshake choice was such a gaffe. Today’s headlines should have been about known figureheads (maybe Rice?) coming in to praise him, which is the freest good press a nominee gets, but now some of those will be devoted to a grieving parent with their hand left ignored, hanging in the air.
holy shit, the girl smirking while giving the 4Chan/white power sign behind Kavanaugh is actually his assistant, and her name is Zina Bash.
You don’t really think she is doing that right?
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So has he been grilled about his views on presidential investigations and deference to the executive branch by the judiciary?
I haven’t been able to watch since this morning, but I’d expect little of that to show up on day one.
If you ask much about a topic on day one of a hearing like this, majority tends to scold you for bringing it up again on subsequent days (accuse you of rehashing, etc), and may work to narrow or limit your questioning. Today is also likely to lean heavily on character witnesses, if I recall....which is another reason that handshake choice was such a gaffe. Today’s headlines should have been about known figureheads (maybe Rice?) coming in to praise him, which is the freest good press a nominee gets, but now some of those will be devoted to a grieving parent with their hand left ignored, hanging in the air.
That makes sense.
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Bi_3 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
holy shit, the girl smirking while giving the 4Chan/white power sign behind Kavanaugh is actually his assistant, and her name is Zina Bash.
You don’t really think she is doing that right?
Honestly, I didn't at first; I have totally held my own elbow in a loose-claw like grip before (seriously). But once I heard more about her, I am now ready to join the LibArmy in their rage.
holy shit, the girl smirking while giving the 4Chan/white power sign behind Kavanaugh is actually his assistant, and her name is Zina Bash.
You don’t really think she is doing that right?
Honestly, I didn't at first; I have totally held my own elbow in a loose-claw like grip before (seriously). But once I heard more about her, I am now ready to join the LibArmy in their rage.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47176 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Birds in Hell wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
holy shit, the girl smirking while giving the 4Chan/white power sign behind Kavanaugh is actually his assistant, and her name is Zina Bash.
You don’t really think she is doing that right?
Honestly, I didn't at first; I have totally held my own elbow in a loose-claw like grip before (seriously). But once I heard more about her, I am now ready to join the LibArmy in their rage.
trag, c'mon.
I honestly don't have an opinion on this, her hand sign is too vague. But that I'm *open* to believing it says more about the state of this administration than it does me, I think.
Man apparently I’m out of it. I have no idea what a white power sign looks like.
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cant blame the guy for not shaking that hand the meeting was a semi-riot and he was obv shaken and who the f knows who that guy is and if he plans to knife you aside from it being a normal reflex to find that kind of personal intro super creepy
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cant blame the guy for not shaking that hand the meeting was a semi-riot and he was obv shaken and who the f knows who that guy is and if he plans to knife you aside from it being a normal reflex to find that kind of personal intro super creepy
In a room full of senators for a supreme court hearing I highly doubt that he would be able to bring a knife in.
Oddly enough, they probably wouldn't let him bring a gun in either. Those are just for schools.
Really, the only measurement of consequence for such an act right now is: will it serve to make him less popular, and thus do further harm to Republican candidates in in-play seats? I say again: the reason for documents being withheld isn’t that they could possibly derail his nomination. The documents are being withheld to keep Kavanaugh from becoming even more unpopular, because there is an election coming and it can mean the difference between losing just the house, or losing both sides.
It’s hard to imagine that anything he says tomorrow will overshadow this, on air or around water coolers. Whether you think he was reasonable or not, this is something republicans badly needed not to have happen.
I am one of the few Americans acually watching the hearing. I have the mental capacity to "keep my eye on the ball" and recognize that these men are also the modern scum of the Earth.
That you think "keeping your eye on the ball" means passing judgement on the character of the individuals involved - subject to an extraordinary amount of incomplete information, and with the particulars of what is known selectively passed through the highly politicized lenses of each side's ideological water carriers - rather than considering the ideas that motivate literally any of the substantive objections to Kavanaugh's nomination means that no, you have not kept your eye on the ball at all.
That you think all I know about these people is literally only what I've seen with my eyes in the last few hours is insulting, but go for it I guess.
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