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The Republicans of the Senate Judiciary Committee are as heartless and as spineless as jellyfish. They want to rush to have Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify under oath in front of their panel on Monday, September 24th, 2018. It's a foregone conclusion that the senators know if there's enough credible evidence to prove that the 51-year old research psychologist and professor is telling the truth about an attempted rape by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that it might be impossible to get another high court nominee confirmed before the November 6th mid-term elections. The committee also invited Kavanaugh to respond to the allegations under oath on the same day as Ford.
It is critical for the F.B.I. to investigate the allegations, which is what Ford is demanding before she makes
an appearance in Congress. But in order for the Bureau to begin any examination, it is necessary for Donald Trump to formally make the request, which Trump refuses to do. About the F.B.I., Trump claims that this type of case is "not what they do." Of course that's not true and Trump could certainly direct the F.B.I. to gather background information about Judge Kavanaugh, which could include conducting interviews with witnesses who are familiar with the sexual assault allegations. Unfortunately, Dr. Ford has no authority as a citizen to tell the Bureau to investigate...and the U.S. Senate can't either because Kavanaugh is Trump's nominee not the Senate's. Legally that might not be obstruction of justice, but it sure does sound like it to me. Therefore - until all of this can be sorted out - it is imperative to further delay any vote
by the full Senate to confirm or deny a Supreme Court seat to Kavanaugh.
Obviously, the G.O.P. is worried sick that an official, non-partisan investigation
might go beyond the mid-terms. If that's what it takes to get to the truth, so
be it. Instead of concentrating on their conservative agenda, Republicans
should care more about a woman who has accused a sitting federal judge of trying
to rape her at a high school party when she was 15 years old and he, at 17, was
allegedly drunk. But then...senators like Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck
Grassley and members Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham and the other eight Republican men on the
panel...helped to elect a man president of the United States...and he...Donald
Trump...has been accused by nineteen women of various forms of sexual
misconduct.
The Washington Post - on Sunday, September 16th - reported the following, as told to the newspaper by Dr. Ford...that Kavanaugh and another intoxicated person "corralled her in to a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers" in the suburbs of Maryland in 1982. "Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes while grinding his body against hers." The article also stated that "Kavanaugh tried to pull off her one-piece bathing suit." Ford told The Post..."I thought he might inadvertently kill me. He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing." Kavanaugh has "unequivocally" denied the allegations, but The Post wrote that in early August of this year Ford passed a lie detector test that was administered by a former F.B.I. agent. The test reportedly determined that Ford was being truthful with her sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
Let's be logical. Why would Ford create a fantasy and subject herself to vicious harassment and terrifying death threats? Why would she point the finger at the 53-year old Judge Kavanaugh if her allegations were not true? Nobody who lies would want the F.B.I. to investigate. Hmm. Could it be that's the reason why Donald Trump is so hellbent on having special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe shut down? President "Pinocchio" - as of September 13th - has, according to The Washington Post's Fact-Checker, lied more than 5,000 times since he moved into The White House.
If Dr. Ford makes the case and convinces enough G.O.P. senators, Judge Kavanaugh will not be confirmed. So karma's a bitch. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky - and other Senate Republicans - stole a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama and from liberals, progressives and all Democrats nationwide. When Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy retired on July 31st, Trump should have waited to nominate a successor to Kennedy until after the mid-terms. When Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13th, 2016, McConnell denied President Obama the right - and yes, it was a right - to see his nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, go before the Senate for a vote. Point of fact...McConnell wouldn't even give Garland a meeting, let alone a confirmation hearing or a vote. McConnell claimed he did what he did because it was an election year. However, it was nearly nine months before Americans were going to the polls on November 8th, 2016. With Judge Kavanaugh, it's now less than seven weeks before the mid-terms and both Trump and McConnell want to move full speed ahead with their efforts to see the Supreme Court nominee confirmed. That's political shenanigans of the worst kind.
But Senator McConnell is following in the footsteps of Donald Trump. Both are deceiving, manipulating monsters and most Senate Republicans are merely McConnell's marionettes.
Let us also take note that there is no female Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee. According to Yahoo! News, "In the committee's 202-year history, it has not had a single Republican woman." Only Democrats seem to welcome women on to the judiciary panel and currently four of the ten Democrats are female. Therefore, with majority control, a group of eleven, white Republican men essentially have all the power over this sexual assault issue.
No matter what happens, there will be doubts in too many Americans' minds that will taint this nomination. If Kavanaugh is eventually confirmed, his position on the U.S. Supreme Court will always be one that is questioned. If Donald Trump has any brains at all - which he probably doesn't - he would remove Kavanaugh's name from nomination before this matter becomes any uglier and any more embarrassing for all people concerned and our nation.
Sacrificing women for political achievement is the key focus for Republicans on Capitol Hill. But then...the "misogynist-in-chief" uses women as play-toys...then he pays them off to keep their mouths shut and treats them like dirt. The title of this column is not to suggest that Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of a crime from 36 years ago. All the facts are, of course, not yet on the table. I simply make a statement that men who sexually assault women shouldn't be a Supreme Court justice or president of the United States of America. Always remember...when it comes to women, Donald Trump admitted on the 2005 Access Hollywood video - which was released on October 7th, 2016 just thirty-one days before the presidential election on November 8th - "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the p--sy. You can do anything."
No Donald...you can't. At least you shouldn't. And neither should anybody else.
And that's The Controversy for today.
I'm Gary B. Duglin.
"We'll talk again."
The Controversy is a publication of GBD Productions. Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Controversy is Gary B. Duglin.
Please express your personal opinions by following the instructions above. And thank you for reading The Controversy.
Photo credits: Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, Maryland (Brett Kavanaugh, teenager) and Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland (Christine Blasey {Ford}, teenager)
Copyright 2018 Gary B. Duglin and TheControversy.net. All Rights Reserved.
The Washington Post - on Sunday, September 16th - reported the following, as told to the newspaper by Dr. Ford...that Kavanaugh and another intoxicated person "corralled her in to a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers" in the suburbs of Maryland in 1982. "Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes while grinding his body against hers." The article also stated that "Kavanaugh tried to pull off her one-piece bathing suit." Ford told The Post..."I thought he might inadvertently kill me. He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing." Kavanaugh has "unequivocally" denied the allegations, but The Post wrote that in early August of this year Ford passed a lie detector test that was administered by a former F.B.I. agent. The test reportedly determined that Ford was being truthful with her sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
Let's be logical. Why would Ford create a fantasy and subject herself to vicious harassment and terrifying death threats? Why would she point the finger at the 53-year old Judge Kavanaugh if her allegations were not true? Nobody who lies would want the F.B.I. to investigate. Hmm. Could it be that's the reason why Donald Trump is so hellbent on having special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe shut down? President "Pinocchio" - as of September 13th - has, according to The Washington Post's Fact-Checker, lied more than 5,000 times since he moved into The White House.
If Dr. Ford makes the case and convinces enough G.O.P. senators, Judge Kavanaugh will not be confirmed. So karma's a bitch. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky - and other Senate Republicans - stole a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama and from liberals, progressives and all Democrats nationwide. When Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy retired on July 31st, Trump should have waited to nominate a successor to Kennedy until after the mid-terms. When Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13th, 2016, McConnell denied President Obama the right - and yes, it was a right - to see his nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, go before the Senate for a vote. Point of fact...McConnell wouldn't even give Garland a meeting, let alone a confirmation hearing or a vote. McConnell claimed he did what he did because it was an election year. However, it was nearly nine months before Americans were going to the polls on November 8th, 2016. With Judge Kavanaugh, it's now less than seven weeks before the mid-terms and both Trump and McConnell want to move full speed ahead with their efforts to see the Supreme Court nominee confirmed. That's political shenanigans of the worst kind.
But Senator McConnell is following in the footsteps of Donald Trump. Both are deceiving, manipulating monsters and most Senate Republicans are merely McConnell's marionettes.
Let us also take note that there is no female Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee. According to Yahoo! News, "In the committee's 202-year history, it has not had a single Republican woman." Only Democrats seem to welcome women on to the judiciary panel and currently four of the ten Democrats are female. Therefore, with majority control, a group of eleven, white Republican men essentially have all the power over this sexual assault issue.
No matter what happens, there will be doubts in too many Americans' minds that will taint this nomination. If Kavanaugh is eventually confirmed, his position on the U.S. Supreme Court will always be one that is questioned. If Donald Trump has any brains at all - which he probably doesn't - he would remove Kavanaugh's name from nomination before this matter becomes any uglier and any more embarrassing for all people concerned and our nation.
Sacrificing women for political achievement is the key focus for Republicans on Capitol Hill. But then...the "misogynist-in-chief" uses women as play-toys...then he pays them off to keep their mouths shut and treats them like dirt. The title of this column is not to suggest that Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of a crime from 36 years ago. All the facts are, of course, not yet on the table. I simply make a statement that men who sexually assault women shouldn't be a Supreme Court justice or president of the United States of America. Always remember...when it comes to women, Donald Trump admitted on the 2005 Access Hollywood video - which was released on October 7th, 2016 just thirty-one days before the presidential election on November 8th - "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the p--sy. You can do anything."
No Donald...you can't. At least you shouldn't. And neither should anybody else.
And that's The Controversy for today.
I'm Gary B. Duglin.
"We'll talk again."
The Controversy is a publication of GBD Productions. Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Controversy is Gary B. Duglin.
Please express your personal opinions by following the instructions above. And thank you for reading The Controversy.
Photo credits: Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, Maryland (Brett Kavanaugh, teenager) and Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland (Christine Blasey {Ford}, teenager)
Copyright 2018 Gary B. Duglin and TheControversy.net. All Rights Reserved.
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