And if you are a rightwinger, he's right.
Grassley and Kavanaugh kept saying that the FBI 'does not draw conclusions.' That is true only in a jesuitical sense.
But also irrelevant, because United States attorneys do draw conclusons, based on FBI report. That is why Kavanaugh was so panicked every time anyone mentioned 'FBI investigation.'
Hard choice for him: lie to the FBI or give up in his appointment.
As a judge, he of course knows this, which confirms that he was lying.
What do you think he is lying about?
ReplyDeleteI am not following too closely this one, but I hardly believe he can truly recollect anything about a drunk meeting 30+ years ago.
He is lying about the attack, which he remembers -- who knows how well? I know he is lying because he is panicked by the idea of an FBI inquiry.
ReplyDeleteEvery time civil rights types object to police sweeps or intrusive questioning, the rightwingers ask,what's your problem, I wouldn't have anything to hide so I wouldn't mind being asked. That knife has 2 edges.
He has lied about a number of things, under oath, during his confirmation hearings. He lied about his drinking - as multiple individuals from his past are now attesting - and he lied pathetically about the meanings of various sexual slang terms. Most notably, he lied about what being a "Renate Alumnus" meant, and anyone who actually believes his explanation is worth nothing more than a belly laugh.
ReplyDeleteMore substantively, he lied about his activities in the Bush administration, although the full extent of those lies is difficult to gauge, given that the Trump administration refuses to release most of the relevant materials.
Finally, there are substantive questions about his finances - about a large down payment on a $1.2M house, about near-six-figure debts (reportedly from gambling) that disappeared earlier this year, about a six-figure fee for a country club membership that he managed to pony up, all despite not being a wealthy man, at least by Republican donor class standards (he is comfortably upper middle class).
No winder trump likes him
ReplyDeleteWhen are ambitious politicians going to realize that not only is Trump a monster of depravity himself but that he has strange ability to expose the depravity of everyone who comes close to him. Gen. Kelly is an example as good as we could wish for.
ReplyDeleteKavanaugh left many signs in his testimony about who and what he is. Perhaps only someone who went to a Catholic high school would've caught all of them but I think I got them all.
It is no surprise that his approach is jesuitical. This was seen most clearly in his strange arguments about the pregnant refugee girl. Strange, I would think, to anyone who is not familiar with jesuitical reasoning.
Another of the remarks I think have some most revealing are his constant reminding us that he was captain of his basketball team. We have all known people who have never got over being in high school but not many people like that get nominated to the Supreme Court.
Another telling remark was his list of the girls he socialized with in high school. He listed all of the schools they went to, all Catholic girl schools, and it is not surprising that a lot of these girls wrote letters saying that he did not treat them the way he treated Ford.Obviously not. They came from the class of potential mates that he would have been circumspect around and Ford, as he went out of his way to tell us, came from the larger class of girls to be treated as toys. The name chosen for his boys club when he went to Yale expressed the attitude perfectly.
Sorry but I really can't give much thought for all this highschool and college gossip-type stuff.
ReplyDeleteApparently the guy was, and may well still be, a jerk at personal level, but that should have limited impact on his professional qualifications.
What is surely more worrying are those allegations of debts mysteriously disappearing. Is this serious? Heck, you guys are turning into Brazil so fast I can't keep up.
The sex assault stuff ui serious, the high school stuff just goes to his immaturity. It does seem trivial compared to what is happening in Brazil.
ReplyDeleteNot that norteamericans are paying attention. 'however, I did hear a discussion yesterday suggesting tahft Brazilians would approve of a government that shoots drug dealers out of hand, like in the Philippines. It is true -- based on surveys of Filipinos living on Maui -- that there is tremendous support for Duterte's murderous policy.
Democracy is not popular anywhere
Yes, Harry, we are turning into a fascist state real soon.
ReplyDeleteOur books on human rights in my university library were vandalized, with knife cuts, by unknown 'brown shirts'. Mind you, it is the main university in the federal capital of the country, and we are back to book burning level.
And this is only the beginning...
When people feel insecure, they vote for saviors. The difference I see is that many Brazilians feel real insecurity, while Trump exploited fake insecurity
ReplyDeleteHe is lying about the attack, which he remembers -- who knows how well? I know he is lying because he is panicked by the idea of an FBI inquiry.
ReplyDeleteOh, good God, what a load of nonsense. Never mind fantasy.
He was panicked. Really? Upon what do you base that, besides your own fever dreams.
Kavanaugh took an extremely high risk approach: utter, unequivocal denial. Should any investigation, of any kind, provide any evidence to the contrary, he would be impeached, disbarred, and humiliated in a trice.
The only way that makes sense is if he knows that no such facts exist, because Susan Ford the moral imbecile is either not in contact with reality, or flat out lying.
Solid prediction: nothing surfaces, ever.
Why? Because progressives will do anything, no matter how heinous, to get their way.
Oh, and M, your charges of Kavanaugh's lying are pathetic. If any of them were even remotely sound, then the Democrats would be howling for his rejection for perjury alone.
Yet they haven't.
QED