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I USED TO KNOW BRETT KAVANAUGH....  Robbin Wood September 25 at 3:46 PM David Brock on NBC: “I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps." And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no. Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally. Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — just weeks after the story of his affair with a White House intern had broken. When the TV camera panned to Hillary Clinton, I saw Brett — at the time a key lieutenant of Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating various Clinton scandals — mouth the word "bitch." But there's a lot more to know about Kavanaugh than just his Pavlovian response to Hillary's image. Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical and ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, government and media. And it’s those controversial associations that should give members of the Senate and the American public serious pause. Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoe Barbara Comstock is now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge. At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke. In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network, Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage. When, as I came to know, Kavanaugh took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation, we all laughed that Larry had taught him well. (Of course, that sort of political opportunism by a prosecutor is at best unethical, if not illegal.) Another compatriot was George Conway (now Kellyanne's husband), who led a secretive group of right-wing lawyers — we called them "the elves" — who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. I knew then that information was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — and also that Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh. That critical flow of inside information allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair. But the cabal's godfather was Ted Olson, the then-future solicitor general for George W. Bush and now a sainted figure of the GOP establishment (and of some liberals for his role in legalizing same-sex marriage). Olson had a largely hidden role as a consigliere to the "Arkansas Project" — a multi-million dollar dirt-digging operation on the Clintons, funded by the eccentric right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and run through The American Spectator magazine, where I worked at the time. Both Ted and Brett had what one could only be called an unhealthy obsession with the Clintons — especially Hillary. While Ted was pushing through the Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton White House lawyer and Hillary friend Vincent Foster was murdered (he committed suicide), Brett was costing taxpayers millions by peddling the same garbage at Starr's office. A detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's own notes from the Starr Investigation reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of information from the Starr investigation — as well as the multiple previous investigations — attempting vainly to legitimize wild right-wing conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them without regard to the emotional cost to Foster’s family and friends, or even common decency. Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes. Like millions of Americans this week, I tuned into Kavanaugh's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with great interest. In his opening statement and subsequent testimony, Kavanaugh presented himself as a "neutral and impartial arbiter" of the law. Judges, he said, were not players but akin to umpires — objectively calling balls and strikes. Again and again, he stressed his "independence" from partisan political influences. But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us." |
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9/30/2018 7:01 pm |
WOW!!! I knew instinctively that he was slime ... I could feel it! Weird!
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I suppose you think Dr. Ford and the other women are "scumbags" too? You and maisie don't know what the words "innocent until proven guilty" even mean! In your minds, everyone who disagrees with you is a "scumbag"
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How predictable....I notice that you never have anything to say about the authors of Bigblock's frequent C+Ps from extreme Right Propaganda sources or Fossil's recent blog featuring downright lies copied from gutter-level Conspiracy channels.....And Kavenaugh's performance was unhinged.......not a person one would want in the position he is seeking........As for your opinion........I don't find it worthwhile.
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Kavanaugh was not tried in a criminal court, he is being vetted for a job he really wants and seems to feel he has a God-given right to........He demonstrated that he isn't suitable for the position.......not because I have found him guilty of what Dr.Ford credibly accused him of, but because of his behaviour in the Senate hearing.....
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I have never said he did anything...in fact I have said that I believe in "innocent till proven guilty". Obviously you do not. You must be mistaking me for a Trumper...each and everyone of you is so convinced that this is a Democrat plot. You don't even understand that in insisting the liberals are to blame you are also calling Dr. Ford a liar and treating her as guilty.
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 bore me some more...your ugly words are all your own! 
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And you're a Toady for the Right and you're writing is boring and you never criticise what your fellow Trump Toadies post, no matter how dishonest, wrong or malicious.......in fact, you just flag them on..........Your opinion is meaningless........Besides, Brock is so debonair.....so dashing and vital, while you just sit there on your bench like Heidi's grouchy grandfather, spitting tobacco juice and impotently waving your cane.
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So have you...didn't you say you used to be a lefty? So who are you toadying to now?
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We all know why you get lots of reads......I'ts because of all the Trump sycophants on this site......The ones whose lies and far Right conspiracy theories you support, no matter how ignorant.......You keep ignoring that fact ......Oh, are you crippled? I assumed you carried that big stick as a prop in the local amateur theatre production of Heidi....Sure looks like Heidi and her grumpy grandfather.......
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Eunuch's head of hair......Lol....Your jealousy is so obvious........And you're ordering me as to who I should fantasize about.......How ridiculous can you get?  ....
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I'll put up this article against any of the garbage you post on a daily basis by sewer-level hacks who are barely literate let alone credible.
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It seems to escape your mind...but, the fact is, you are the only one here who called yourself a "cripple". Millions of people use walking canes...that must mean they are all cripples in your little mind. Obviously you consider yourself a cripple...is that what makes you such a bitter old man? How narcissistic and self-pitying. Especially when you constantly try to shame everyone who doesn't agree with you. Keep telling yourself the myth that all who click on your blogs are positive, but note the fact that those who comment, are the same few people every time! See reality!
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/B]And no-one could ever mistake you for a human being...far less a Christian one. 
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Speaking pf sewers, did you figure out what the lies are in Fossil's blog yet?.
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Fossil lied, not only lied, but added suggestive photos.......Garbage, pulled from sewers like Qanon and 8chan........What's he doing perusing garbage conspiracy sites like that? Tells me a lot about him and those who don't have the personal integrity to even recognize it......and just go along with it.....not that I'm surprised. Same people who joke about a woman's pain......I deleted my blog because I felt polluted by Fossil.
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Nobody asked you to.
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I just saw another far-right sewer conspiracy theory, this time trotted out by Dan the Jesus-man......he delivered it as truth...sad
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I just saw another far-right sewer conspiracy theory, this time trotted out by Dan the Jesus-man......he delivered it as truth...sad Somehow, I don't think their "pre-booked tickets to heaven" are valid any longer. Their poor little brains are too full of sewage to realise it though
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The are two kinds of reformists.. One ...that tries to reforms others to their own positive beliefs Two..... the reformist that tries to reform from their own past negative thinking. Like the reformed "drinker" or the reformed "smoker"...Those who have been there and done that .. that believe they know what being there and doing that means. With the first kind.. the truth can be questionable But with the second kind...once you wade through their truth hyperbole..There is a basic undeniable truth. A truth without agenda.. that is not self serving but self deprecating....In that.... They once were one of them.. so they know who they are. In our current state of reform.... Trump has no fear of the Democrat reformist.. he has spent his life combating that type of reform..and winning. But Trump's failure and demise will come from the "reformed" Conservative. That number is growing. So whether you choose to believe Brock's truth hyperbole or not.. it doesn't matter... He is a 'reformed" conservative.....Like Flake and others, they have no place to GO. No Constituency, No Party, No Future.... just their truth..... They have confined themselves to be a "prisoner" alone on Devil's island.....The Devil if the do, and the Devil if they don't....
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The Canadian and US legal systems are both based on the British...... the situation under discussion, however was not a trial......The reason I haven't pointed out the lies specific lies posted by Fossil and Dan is that it's too easy....people will just refute them without learning anything. These kind of garbage sites are proliferating on the internet......spreading lies and people just swallow it.......they don't learn how to use critical thinking to recognize them, or at least be suspicious enough to check it out. This is how enemies infiltrate and affect elections......this is cyber-warfare and too many people will swallow whatever makes them feel good. During the last presidential election, Repubs posted some anti-Hillary memes and stories that were lies......they gloated over them. That's fine, but after I pointed out the lies, the gloating didn't stop.....didn't even slow down, seemed to energize the anti Hillary crowd. The fact that it was a lie seemed to be irrelevant to them.They even padded it as if it were true. I saw it with Obama too.....there are still people here posting that Obama is gay and Michelle is a man and not the mother of her children........I don't know if they believe their own BS or that they don't care what's true.That may be a cute game now, but it's a mind set that could prove very dangerous to the US. Remember when Trump took out full-page colour ads condemning the Central Park 5?.....He even pushed for them getting the death penalty after they were proven innocent through DNA.......Trump phoning the media pretending to be his own publicity agent, lying about how much he was worth. Then there was the long drawn-out birther conspiracy......and on 9-11 when he said he witnessed thousands of Muslims celebrating.......or phoney Times covers.....on and on, Trump has lied......yet he calls the mainstream media fake. Trump has made lying OK, normal, justifiable as long as it's useful to his cause. This mind set is quickly morphing to a situation that leaves the people wide open to being controlled. it has opened the US to being influenced by those who wish them ill.........And too many people don't even recognize it, or, in the case of people like Fossil, using it to stir the pot for his own entertainment. A few months ago, when the spectre of Russian interference was discussed here, Maisie and some others expressed a high degree of certainty that they would easily recognize any on-line thought-manipulation..........I don't think so, if they can't recognize an obvious lie, A delicate breeze lifts up a little kiss and wafts it towards the wall of politics that divide us.......there it goes.....in among the thistle down up....up.....wheee and over the wall.........quick, catch it, before it morphs into resentment. 
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I realize that you are deaf in that ear, but I'm getting really tired of repeating it.......This is not a courtroom........We are not in a courtroom..........
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