Tuesday, September 18, 2018

DIANNE FEINSTEIN: THE SHABBY TACTICS OF AMERICA'S MOST CORRUPT WAR PROFITEER AND LOOTER



During a recent television interview on MSNBC, Elie Mystal opined that "if Kavanaugh succeeds, it is a moral failing of the process."  Mystal is right in one respect: there was a moral failure.  However, it has nothing to do with Judge Kavanaugh or the Republicans.  Rather, the "moral" failure is solely attributable to Dianne Feinstein.
During Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, some Senate Democrats complained that they were not given numerous documents regarding Judge Kavanaugh (i.e., the entire record).  They asked to delay the hearing until such time as the records were produced.  However, at the same time that they were crying foul, Dianne Feinstein secretly withheld a document she allegedly received in July and did not disclose until after the hearing was over.
This "gotcha" eleventh-hour disclosure is yet another chapter in the interminable and embarrassing confirmation process.  The fact that it was first disclosed after the hearing and before the vote (although Feinstein knew about it in July) renders the timing and the motivation behind the disclosure suspicious.  Further fueling this feeling of skepticism is the Democrats' stated desire to delay Kavanaugh's confirmation and the fact that some Democrats have refused to objectively consider any of President Trump's nominees.  ("Some Democrats said they don't have to wait for President Trump to pick a Supreme Court nominee – they're voting 'no' regardless of who [sic] he names.")
While Mystal asserts that Kavanaugh's success would signify a moral failing, his objectivity is a bit elusive, given some of his recent comments.  In a recent article, Mystal stated: "Process is missing because Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by Donald Trump: one of the laziest men in the entire country, and almost certainly the laziest man to ever inhabit the office of the President of the United States.  Kavanaugh was not carefully 'vetted' by an executive operation that cares about the integrity of the third branch of government.  Trump and his dysfunctional White House are incapable of such tasks."
Mystal further stated that "Kavanaugh was vetted by the Republicans in the United States Senate.  That body is also not concerned about the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court ... one might argue that the Senate should be.  But this is the same group of people who refused to meet with a qualified nominee based on allegations that he was nominated by Barack Obama.  The Senate wouldn't recognize integrity if it set itself on fire on the Senate floor."
While Mystal is entitled to his opinions about the president and Republicans, this is not a question about vetting.  Dianne Feinstein had this information for months and did not disclose it.  Kavanaugh went through days of intense questioning by Republican and Democratic senators.  During that time period, not one senator asked about this alleged incident.  While some senators might claim they did not know about it, Feinstein did, and she did not think it was important enough to raise or to share with her colleagues.  According to an article in The New Yorker:
For several days, Feinstein declined requests from other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to share the woman's letter and other relevant communications.  A source familiar with the committee's activities said that Feinstein's staff initially conveyed to other Democratic members' offices that the incident was too distant in the past to merit public discussion, and that Feinstein had "taken care of it."
There is no conceivable reason why Feinstein did not ask Kavanaugh about this alleged incident before, or during, the confirmation hearing.  If she was concerned about Kavanaugh's character, she had an obligation to ask him about this alleged incident.  If she was worried about the individual's privacy, she could have simply redacted the person's name.  Members of the Judiciary Committee should be furious with her decision to withhold the information.
Sources who worked for other members of the Judiciary Committee said that they respected the need to protect the woman's privacy, but that they didn't understand why Feinstein had resisted answering legitimate questions about the allegation.  "We couldn't understand what their rationale is for not briefing members on this.  This is all very weird," one of the congressional sources said.  Another added, "She's had the letter since late July.  And we all just found out about it."
Dianne Feinstein's decision to withhold this information from the committee was significant.  The senators should have had the opportunity to thoroughly question Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearing.  His possible life appointment to the bench and the cases he will be deciding call for a judge of the highest ethical and moral standards.  By failing to disclose this information early on, Feinstein did a disservice to herself, her colleagues, and the American public.
Mr. Hakim is a writer and a lawyer.  His articles have been published in The Daily Caller, The Federalist, The Western Journal, American Thinker, World Net Daily, and other online publications.
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Kavanaugh's ordeal shows the depravity of the rabid left




Is there no depth to which leftists will not sink to demonize those with whom they disagree?  Unable to lay a hand on Brett Kavanaugh throughout the judiciary committee hearings, despite some of the rudest, most uncivil questioning on record since the Bork and Thomas hearings, now they've turned up a woman to play Anita Hill, a woman willing to prostitute herself on the pyre of leftist dreams of advancing their agenda through the courts.
These people, Feinstein and all those who have jumped on this ridiculous bandwagon, are truly vile.  To get what they want, they are happy to destroy anyone in their way.  They know that Kavanaugh is a fine man with a spotless reputation, but so what?  They fear his constitutional expertise; they despise our Constitution.  As Obama has stated, it is a document of negative rights; it lays out the government what it cannot do.  Leftists want the government to have the power to control all of us in nearly every aspect of our lives.
Now this woman, Christine Blasey Ford, who supposedly wished to remain anonymous (sure, she did), has come forward, having already paid for her own polygraph test (that's not at all suspicious, is it?), with her psychologist's notes from her 2012 recovered memory of inappropriate behavior by Judge Kavanaugh thirty-six years ago.  She does not remember what year this allegedly took place or where it took place, how she got there, or how she got home.  In her original letter, she wrote that four boys were involved; now she says it was two.  That her claims are being taken seriously is absurd, an example of the despicable tactics Democrats employ to get their way.  Others have suggested that she put her plan in motion when Mitt Romney was running against Obama and was ahead in the polls.  Romney had mentioned Kavanaugh as a potential SCOTUS pick. 
If the left succeeds in scrapping Kavanaugh's nomination, it will, as Victor Davis Hanson noted, mean we are no longer a nation of laws in which citizens have protected rights.  The country will be governed and people will be destroyed by innuendo and unproven accusations whenever someone wants them out of the way.  This woman is a leftist, an activist.  Her lawyer is as well.  But the lawyer,Debra Katz, chose not to believe Paula Jones's version of her encounter with Bill Clinton, who had a lifelong reputation for caddish behavior.
Leftists are nothing if not hypocritical.  They have relentlessly harassed the woman who accused Keith Ellison of abuse.
Kavanaugh has a reputation for being a perfect gentleman throughout his life.  Ford's story is a fabrication, purposeful or perhaps misremembered, but "recovered memories" have been proved to be notoriously unreliable.  Or maybe it is a simple case of mistaken identity; she is certain, and she is wrong.  It is a sad commentary that the left can always come up with some poor fool to be the patsy.
Leftists are proving once again that truth is not a leftist value.  If only there were a wayback machine that could revisit every congressman's behavior in high school.  It is easy to imagine which of them were jerks then, because they are jerks now.  (Think Schumer, Durbin, Ellison, any Kennedy, etc.) 
A couple of RINO Trump-haters, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, are only too eager to jump on board this disgusting campaign to derail Kavanaugh.  Two failed senators who pretended to be Republicans but are not see this as a way to foil Trump.  Destroy Kavanaugh in the process?  Traumatize his family?  So what?  Both are leaving because neither could have won in his state, so they have nothing to lose.  If they do this, they, along with the Democrats fomenting this travesty, will be remembered as the traitors to their party that they are. 
If Dianne Feinstein thinks the #MeToo movement will serve as a disguise for her treachery, she is dead wrong.  Any sentient person can see what is going on here: a Ted Kennedyesque destruction of a man, his career, and his family.  Feinstein's reputation will never recover from this bit of vicious chicanery.  This farce is a tragedy, and all those who are perpetrating it are the real deplorables.
There is a line in Craig Johnson's new book, The Depth of Winter, spoken by the barbaric nemesis of the story: "Power is everything, anything else is simply a means to power."  Leftists believe they are the only ones who deserve to wield power, so they think nothing of ruining people to get it.  Rabid leftists, the people executing this charade, are America's nemesis.  Anyone who denies this is willfully blind.  This current, anti-Trump left is lethal to everything for which this great nation stands.

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