Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
Flake’s Unaware He’s In A War
For the past week, everyone I have come in contact with says they are furious. I am furious. Anger over the clearly politically driven power grab and coup attempt hijacking a constitutional process that was about to seat a Conservative appointee on the Supreme Court. Granted, most of my circle are right of center. My monthly cigar group is a seething, frothing group of men of a certain age who are incredulous over the blatantly political, rank accusations. However, what has surprised me are those friends who dislike, even despise President Trump, who are deeply uncomfortable with this sad, disgusting chapter in our country’s political history. They also believe this is a horrific political hit job on a decent man.
I am old enough to remember Obama’s liberal appointees — Justices Kagan and Sotomayer — enjoying their confirmation process with dignity and respect.
I remember Justice Clarence Thomas being branded and still being accused of sexual assault with zero proof.
I remember Chappaquiddick Kennedy making a new verb out of Nominee Bork’s name.
Now, for less than a handful of Republican Senators, namely Flake, Collins, and Murkowski, the committee is jumping through hoops to placate these wavering flowers.
Judicial Committee member Flake just suggested he doesn’t believe these accusers are part of a “left-wing conspiracy.”
This completely ignores Feinstein strategically holding the complaint for 45 days before submitting before the vote.
This completely ignores and defies common sense which would suggest the reported 10 teenage gang rape parties would have been reported or discussed sometime, by some person over the past 35 years.
This completely ignores the messenger is the self-serving, vile porn lawyer, Michael Avenatti who CNN and MSNBC seem to have made a media sensation, but who reminds the rest of us of every insulting joke we ever heard about lawyers.
Avenatti is Saul Goodman without the charm. He is Alex Jones on meth. Shakespeare suggested what to do with lawyers like Avenatti in Henry VI.
Sen. Flake, if you prevent a vote from taking place in the Senate, you will cause the losses of Republican seats across the country. This will allow the growing massive Marxist wave to crash onto our land and the cultural impact will affect our liberty, free speech and freedom for generations. The Left has no desire for justice. They only seek power.
SCOTUS is the city of Verdun in WWI and the Republicans need to fight for every square inch of ground. Sen. Flake, you carry the weight of an entire country’s future in your considered vote.
Published in General
Give me a break. Somebody who is a Never owns him, lock, stock and barrel. He can’t even get reelected in Arizona.
Correct.
The next “liberal” appointees will enjoy their confirmation processes with dignity and respect. When a “respected moderate Democrat” like DiFi becomes one of the Maenads, it normalizes insanity. To be “moderate” the next time, all a Leftist has to do is not be completely rabid.
If Kavanagh is confirmed, the same madness will recur at any decision he’s involved with that offends any SJW group. It will recur for any future nominee.
Hear ye! Hear ye!
If someone in Obama’s State Department had had the integrity to resign over the Iran deal, would you have characterized that as being owned?
I hear you, and I understand the dynamic at work. Still doesn’t mean I can’t keep pointing out the obvious – at least what’s obvious to me. :)
The pity is that they curry favor across the aisle and are shameless.
Maybe he knows we’re at war and he’s a coward.
He and those like him are coming to terms with their irrelevance. This current disgrace has brought many McMuffin and 16′ non-voters back into the pack. If so, November could be a momentous victory for the republic.
Jeffy, how can we miss you when you won’t go away?
Only 1976 to 2014.
Oh please.
Apparently you aren’t aware that we almost went from a two-thirds majority to barely holding a majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015, and us losing solid Republican seats in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
A purge of Trump Skeptics will be fatal.
This is the way things are now. Idealism will kill the GOP and bring on collectivism.
Just to be clear, Goldberg is more libertarian and is far more cogent as a conservative than those other guys. JMO.
Thanks counselor.
It makes me crazy that anyone on the right forgets this, or thinks it isn’t a big deal.
Flake became unelectable a zillion moths ago and now he’s acting out or he’s got some whacky Evan McMullin et. al. strategy to try to continue to make money off of government.
Virginia was before “Trump.” And you may have noticed the explosion in housing and salaries in Northern Virginia, making Virginia more like NY or CA, dominated by rich leftist enclaves. Maybe you missed Democrats losing a solid seat in Texas? But special elections don’t predict general elections, either way.
Yes, and. And he dearly seeks the same crowning moment as McCain. With the eyes of the nation upon him, striding to record his deciding vote, voting to break the promise he and his party ran on for many years. Gleefully smiling with a thumbs up to the Democrats and a camera.
And. The Democrats went to crazy town, again, and put him in a tight spot. If he does as he wishes, he will never escape having smeared the Kavanaugh family. The vote will have very visible and personal effects on a sympathetic wife and two little girls. “Gee, I didn’t mean for it, I never knew that…” is not going to fly.
So, with Lindsey Graham saying a “no” vote necessarily affirms Kavanaugh is a sexual predator, Flake is in a tight spot. He tried managing it with a floor speech, in which he said he did not believe Kavanaugh is a sexual predator. But Graham’s marker is still there. The second and third accusations, each wilder than the last, made a “no” vote toxic, unless you are a Democrat.
Interesting development: the Republicans’ hired gun, the outside counsel who will lead their questioning of both witnesses, is an Arizona attorney. She has specialized in sex crime prosecution.
On August 1, 2018, I posted the article “President Trump needs to send Brett Kavanaugh to Zimbabwe” to find Senator Jeff Flake for the Kavanaugh confirmation.
http://ricochet.com/540093/president-trump-needs-to-send-brett-kavanaugh-to-zimbabwe/
The Jeff Flake defenders stated that we should not worry. The hearings are to start in a month.
I thought that was too close to the election back then. Why were the Republicans wasting time? That was the one mistake Cocaine Mitch made. He gave the Democrats too much time to intimidate, gossip, and write fiction stories.
That may be true.
If the nomination fails, and we lose the Senate, does Mitch have the stones to push someone through in a lame duck? I think so.
Confirmation Votes:
Thomas 52-48 Ginsberg 96-3
Roberts 78-22 Breyer 87-9
Alito 58-42 Sotomayor 68-31
Gorsuch 54-45 Kagan 68-31
We will be going thru this each time an (R) nominates a Supreme.
I think that Flake’s greatest and grandest dream would be to vote against Kavanaugh…not because he doesn’t think he is qualified, or even that he did anything he is accused of…but just to stick it to Trump like McCain did. I could even see him give a thumbs down on the floor as his swan song as he moseys off to irrelevancy.
We have been getting it…some are starting to see that SCOTUS votes are actually simple political exercises and have nothing to do with what they used to be. The Dems realized this in the 80s…it took the GOP until 2016 to get to near the same level of consideration.
Flake wants to delay a week, you know, to be sure there isn’t anyone else concocting a story, and to learn nothing new.
Flake’s gonna flake. Completely expected.
They’re up to something. How do the GOP not know these people by now? Every one of them keeps making sure to use the words “short delay” and “current charges.” They’re setting up some kind of new tactic. If you give these scumbags an inch they will take a mile every time. They’re going to find a way to try to stretch this “short” delay into as long a delay as they can.
I suspect he’s really stoked by being the current “maverick” of the Senate. What is it with Arizona senators?
I’m not there. I think he thinks there’s a way to do this without getting screamed at and if we can once and for all prove Kavanaugh didn’t do this.
the problem is, that’s impossible
This repulsive Democrat Poop Show is held over for one more week by popular demand.
The television ratings are through the roof!!!