I’ve been judged! Oh the horror… Or rather, the irony.
I’ll give you one guess… It wasn’t me.
Or why he thinks nobody has any idea that he’s hetero given his admitted wife.
To be fair, you did assume his wife is a woman. So maybe you triggered him something terrible
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Maybe a truce between you guys? It feels pretty ugly and cruel, without pointing fingers.
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I need to stop replying to provocation. I find my self apologizing yet again for fucking up a thread over a personal attack. So, I apologize.
EDIT: The actual topic appears to be dead anyway. What it was about, is done. We should probably all learn the discipline of knowing when a thread has been resolved.
You just keep taking creepy to another level. The idea that that would make you happy is weird.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
I assumed he made it up because I think he lives in a basement somewhere hiding from gypsies, barbers and women.
Actually, it was you who started with the personal attack. You also displayed your bigotry by trying to provoke me with homophobic remarks. So yeah, you should apologize but it’s not a case of you being the bigger person.
Sanity from the left on Kavanaugh:
At some point, politics is going to have to move on from the endgame in every situation being about revenge for what other party did.
Democrats are obviously tempted by the disgrace of the Merrick Garland failed nomination to go full bore into revenge politics, but they should decline. The GOP has cornered that (dumb) market, and it’s driving them into a ditch. Be the adult in the room, Democrats - approve Kavanaugh unanimously and take the high road. It will be good for the country and it’ll pay off electorally as well.
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Agree.
If the DEMS play the same game as the GOP…not only will they lose…they will just look petty.
The DEMS need to move on.
As the Judge said; they need to “Take the High Ground…”
So, one party plays dirty politics and gets exactly what it wants, but the other side should ‘take the high road’? I see zero gain for the country (much less the party) in doing this. Further, I see an ENORMOUS downside if this is pursued, in that it would justifiably infuriate (and thus alienate) the Dem base.
Here’s a novel idea–how’s about we chide the GOP for their outrageous, constitutionally suspect, and hypocritical behavior, and admonish them to ‘take the high road’?
Not if they object for non-petty reasons.
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That is the premise of the author, @EyeDentist…and yes, I think the DEMS would be better off in doing so; especially if their “plan” is to nit-pick every sentence and/or e-mail that Kavanaugh as ever written.
I think there a number of problems with this approach, but the most basic is raw electoral math - the base isn’t enough to win. Democrats have to do something else to overcome their minority status - placating the base isn’t going to do it.
More and more voters are tiring of the “no adults in the room” style of governance - wouldn’t it be smart for Democrats to corner the market on that?
(And it’s not that I’m not sympathetic - what happened to Garland was rubbish.)
@Mufasa, your title for this thread made me think of this. Notice the nominees and years, and then on the far right column the senate votes. I don’t think Kavanaugh is making the divide worse, but certainly we’re more divided than we once were. Look at all the justices who were confirmed unanimously, or nearly unanimously in my lifetime. Stevens, O’Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Bryer. Then about 2000 things became markedly more divided.
Bottom of that chart, cut off a bit. At Garland we had a fully dysfunctional Senate. Or you can think about how the Senate seems to be completely divided along party lines so we now have executive orders replacing what should have been major legislation, or we have a majority willing to take turns imposing it’s will on the minority party. Rinse repeat.
This ones shows the division in the judiciary committee.
I may be extremely cynical and wearing multiple tin foil hats, but do people really still believe presidents or supreme court picks really matter any more, especially in the long run?
Everything is about money. All of the other bullshit like abortion, gay marriage, “rights”, etc is just there to keep the populace occupied and blind, while the money runs the show however they want. Nothing new here.
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When I saw “I’m a liberal feminist lawyer,” I wondered about the credentials of the author. She’s argued more cases before the SCOTUS than any other woman and knows him personally. Very nice. Thanks for sharing that. I read a very similar piece by one of his Yale Law School colleagues, Amy Chua. She also mentioned how Judge Kavanaugh is known for accepting and mentoring female law students, including Chau’s own daughter who has clerked form Kavanaugh.
In contrast, I don’t know if you guys saw the Yale students protesting his nomination. I believe there were 300 signatures, but I’d hope very few of the faculty. The rhetoric is what you would expect. Yale pointed out that they always announce any alumni being nominated for the supreme court. They made a similar press release for Justice Sonia Sotamayor.
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Yes, they still matter but point taken. A lot of decisions are made, real power is held, over on K Street, no doubt about it.
Bauber, your post made me think of the corruption cycle of great societies. It’s hard for me not to see the deep divisions as a sign of our decline.
I still remember when my perception of Republicans was the party that wanted a slightly smaller more efficient administrative state and lower taxes. My idea of Democrats was people who wanted a slightly larger government with more services, less fear of the administrative state, with higher taxes.
Now we seem to be caught up in the perception that we’re in some kind of cage match, good against evil over issues like public restrooms.
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Outstanding on two fronts:
You last comment; and the statistical analysis on SCOTUS confirmations.
Thanks!
(One a side note…I did make a comment on the “Sarah Smiles” thread thread about Maxine Waters. I don’t think we really “disagree” on her actions…but to me… when you compare the overall impact of her actions and words to Trumps (that are almost daily and at rally’s; I just don’t think that there is a comparison. Anyhoo…don’t want to derail this thread…but would like your insights on that one).
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