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by now perhaps that's a selling point
by now perhaps that's a selling point
Thanks for the correction. Until we hear the alleged victim's testimony, it's difficult to ascertain whether there's anything to investigate or any leads. "Creating the presumption" is a bit of an exaggeration, considering Mr Kavanaugh willingly walked into a public circus, which include the possibility of smears. Comes with the territory. Ultimately, if he believes Ms Ford is being libelous, there's certainly remedies available to him for that.
That's a bit naive of a sweeping statement. It's quite possible that such remedies would yield dead ends. Also, such remedies keep the soap opera going (publicly) when he's better off shutting the door as quickly as possible.
All this going on and you wouldn't get a lawyer? He'd be STUPID if he didn't.
That's how we settle our disputes in the civilized world. He's under no obligation to seek redress, but he certainly has that option. He's a judge, he understand how the system works.
We hire only the best.
is this the PR firm you mentioned upstream, cd98?While doing work for the Judiciary Committee, Ventry was employed by CRC Public Relations, a prominent GOP firm helping to promote Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court.
I agree. It makes sense for Kavanaugh to get a lawyer.
Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life. It wasn’t far enough.
Maybe another hemisphere would be.
She went online to research other democracies where her family might settle, including New Zealand.
“She was like, ‘I can’t deal with this.
If he becomes the nominee,
then I’m moving to another country.
I cannot live in this country if he’s in the Supreme Court,’ ” her husband said.
“She wanted out.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...nl_most&wpmm=1
CRC advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and represents the Judicial Crisis Network; their man Ventry was awfully tight with the Judiciary Committee's press office.
https://www.thenation.com/article/th...olic-playbook/
none of this is proof of coordination, but the coincidences are piling up.
This is what I have been saying will happen - and only Grassley is to blame if Kavanaugh ends up getting prosecuted.
Grassley could have allowed the FBI investigation and by now they might have made a "less than criminal" referral to the committee. Not that he was innocent - but based on the fact that it was just a background investigation - they would have been constrained to just present findings.
Now - there may end up being a criminal prosecution. I hope the piece of lying K - is prosecuted.
Grooming Brett Kavanaugh
From prep school to the Supreme Court was a straight line…and crooked as
People like Brett Kavanaugh, who as legal commentator Jonathan Turley informed us in The Hill “has long been viewed as someone actively groomed for the court by supporters in the Federalist Society and conservative legal circles.”
But Turley didn’t stop there.
“Short of being raised hydroponically in the basement of the Federalist Society,
he could not be more carefully constructed as a nominee in waiting,” Turley continued.
“He has, literally, spent decades being developed within conservative circles for this moment.”
“All of the years of vetting and grooming and lobbying and list-making by conservative legal figures frustrated by Republican appointees who drifted to the left arguably has come down to this moment,
when they stand on the precipice of appointing a fifth justice who, they hope,
will at last establish a bench firmly committed to their principles.”
Republican presidents had appointed people like
David Souter and Anthony Kennedy who ended up, in the right-wing’s memorable turn of phrase, as “squishes.”
“a three-decade project unparalleled in American history
to install a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest tribunal.”
“Everything U.S. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh has worked on in this life prepared him for this moment, and there was no way he was going to mess it up.
From attending Georgetown Preparatory School with Gorsuch — they graduated two years apart —
to later reuniting in the chambers of Justice Kennedy,
for whom the two of them served as judicial clerks,
destiny and deep fealty to Republican causes
groomed Kavanaugh for such a time as this.”
you must do it their way.
They make a deal with you:
They’ll tell you the secrets of power
if you do two things.
One, don’t share the secrets with anyone else until you get powerful and it’s your turn to pass the secrets on. And
two, use the power the way we tell you to use it.
the cardinal rule you must follow if you are to be successfully groomed:
when you have to chose between principle and power, you know what to do. Chose power.
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/22/gro...vanaugh/#close
deja vu:
spitballing here, the Kavanaugh nomination is in trouble.
if the R's had 50 votes for him, they'd call the vote.
Not debating how the system works. I'm stating that the damage has been done. A stigma has been created regardless of the truth of the matter.
What are the odds you'd guess that he's confirmed? I'm thinking at least 85%. Collins doesn't seem to give a and Corker, Flake, and Sasse are all talk.
She's in.
What do you think the odds are her lies are exposed?
If not true, sure, it sucks. Realistically, however, he has more than just monetary solutions to this problem. A judge can order Ms Ford to write a retraction letter, and to disseminate it among the public. Snopes would carry it, I'm sure (snark comment for the lols).
Let me 'blame the alleged victim' here for a second: Brett Kavanaugh walked into this circus willingly. Unlike the alleged rape victim, he had a choice.
Unfair characterization. She's the one starting the circus.
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