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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... kavanaugh/
"Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh could soon help deliver on something conservatives have been pining for for a very long time: a significant rollback of abortion rights in America.
But for now, he’s getting attacked — in thoroughly personal terms — by some of the most prominent Republicans in the country.
Kavanaugh on Thursday joined with the court’s five other conservatives to strike down President Biden’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for large businesses. But in a separate decision, he and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined with the court’s three liberal justices in allowing Biden’s separate vaccine mandate for health-care workers to move forward.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson got the ball rolling Thursday night by muttering that Kavanaugh was a “cringing little liberal.”
“I’m sorry. I’m not going to ask you to respond to that,” he said to his guest, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, who nominated Kavanaugh in 2018.
Friday morning, Donald Trump Jr. also took aim at the man his father had nominated.
“The left broke Kavanaugh,” Trump Jr. said. “That was always their intention and it worked. They turned him into a Roberts.”
Carlson upped the ante Friday night, combining his and Trump Jr.'s attacks and going after Kavanaugh for tearing up during his confirmation hearing. “We didn’t understand at the time that something had broken inside of Brett Kavanaugh," Carlson said of the confirmation moment, "that on some level his tormenters now controlled him.”
Also on Friday, perhaps Donald Trump’s likeliest successor as a GOP presidential nominee, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), joined in.
“Honestly, Roberts and Kavanaugh didn’t have a backbone on that decision — that’s the bottom line,” said DeSantis, who has been among the GOP’s foremost critics of vaccine mandates.
So that’s the most popular conservative cable news host, the former president’s son and perhaps the most ascendant not-named-Trump Republican in the country all going after Kavanaugh in very pointed ways and suggesting that he has effectively caved to pressure from the left.
This hasn’t come out of nowhere — conservative unrest has built with Kavanaugh for some time as he has emerged as perhaps the court’s swing vote — nor is Kavanaugh the only Trump appointee to be on the receiving end of such treatment.
In 2020, Trump’s first of three nominees, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, received a fair amount of blowback for authoring an opinion extending workplace protections to LGBTQ employees, among other votes. Years earlier, it was Roberts who emerged as more of a swing vote than conservatives had hoped after he was nominated by President George W. Bush — with Roberts’s biggest sin being upholding Obamacare.
But Kavanaugh has since surpassed them as the subject of consternation. According to a book released last summer, Trump reportedly said he was “very disappointed” in Kavanaugh.
“There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t want anything … but I am very disappointed in him, in his rulings.”
Trump repeatedly cited the idea that he had saved Kavanaugh’s career, particularly in the face of a fierce backlash over decades-old sexual assault allegations during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
“In retrospect, he just hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice,” Trump said. “I’m basing this on more than just the election.”
You don’t have to look closely to see the similarities between what Trump was saying then and what other prominent Republicans are saying now: He doesn’t have the “courage” or the “backbone.” The left “broke” him. He may actually be a liberal.
It’s a rather transparent effort to appeal to the side of Kavanaugh that we saw during his confirmation hearings — the fiery jurist who responded angrily to the allegations made against him. And more than that, Kavanaugh seemed to suggest some kind of retribution.
He called the Democrats who railed against him “evil” and, turning to them to address them directly, said, “You sowed the wind,” and “the country will reap the whirlwind.”
But what bookended that performance — and his ultimate confirmation — was plenty of conservative consternation about him, irrespective of the personal allegations. Conservatives worried before his nomination that his lower-court decisions on Obamacare and other social issues were insufficiently to their liking, and they mounted a late push against his selection.
Since then, Kavanaugh has arguably conducted himself along the lines of what you would’ve expected before his confirmation hearings — conservative, but more in the mold of the type of establishment conservative he had long been. It’s turned him into the most frequent swing vote on the court and the justice most often in the majority. Along the way, this has meant siding with liberals sometimes, such as in the health-care vaccine mandate case, a key Fourth Amendment case, a death penalty case and a case allowing iPhone users to sue Apple over the prices of its apps.
Shortly before the 2020 election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton that he had raised concerns with Trump about Kavanaugh’s and Gorsuch’s nomination.
But Cruz added: “It is too early to assess the tenures of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. These things are typically measured in matters of decades rather than just a couple of years.”
A little more than a year later, some leading conservative firebrands are clearly not content to wait for decades of Kavanaugh decisions. They’ve decided to put him on notice that they’ll go after his character at the drop of a hat when he rules the wrong way — even when he rules the right way the very same day."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... kavanaugh/
"Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh could soon help deliver on something conservatives have been pining for for a very long time: a significant rollback of abortion rights in America.
But for now, he’s getting attacked — in thoroughly personal terms — by some of the most prominent Republicans in the country.
Kavanaugh on Thursday joined with the court’s five other conservatives to strike down President Biden’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for large businesses. But in a separate decision, he and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined with the court’s three liberal justices in allowing Biden’s separate vaccine mandate for health-care workers to move forward.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson got the ball rolling Thursday night by muttering that Kavanaugh was a “cringing little liberal.”
“I’m sorry. I’m not going to ask you to respond to that,” he said to his guest, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, who nominated Kavanaugh in 2018.
Friday morning, Donald Trump Jr. also took aim at the man his father had nominated.
“The left broke Kavanaugh,” Trump Jr. said. “That was always their intention and it worked. They turned him into a Roberts.”
Carlson upped the ante Friday night, combining his and Trump Jr.'s attacks and going after Kavanaugh for tearing up during his confirmation hearing. “We didn’t understand at the time that something had broken inside of Brett Kavanaugh," Carlson said of the confirmation moment, "that on some level his tormenters now controlled him.”
Also on Friday, perhaps Donald Trump’s likeliest successor as a GOP presidential nominee, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), joined in.
“Honestly, Roberts and Kavanaugh didn’t have a backbone on that decision — that’s the bottom line,” said DeSantis, who has been among the GOP’s foremost critics of vaccine mandates.
So that’s the most popular conservative cable news host, the former president’s son and perhaps the most ascendant not-named-Trump Republican in the country all going after Kavanaugh in very pointed ways and suggesting that he has effectively caved to pressure from the left.
This hasn’t come out of nowhere — conservative unrest has built with Kavanaugh for some time as he has emerged as perhaps the court’s swing vote — nor is Kavanaugh the only Trump appointee to be on the receiving end of such treatment.
In 2020, Trump’s first of three nominees, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, received a fair amount of blowback for authoring an opinion extending workplace protections to LGBTQ employees, among other votes. Years earlier, it was Roberts who emerged as more of a swing vote than conservatives had hoped after he was nominated by President George W. Bush — with Roberts’s biggest sin being upholding Obamacare.
But Kavanaugh has since surpassed them as the subject of consternation. According to a book released last summer, Trump reportedly said he was “very disappointed” in Kavanaugh.
“There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t want anything … but I am very disappointed in him, in his rulings.”
Trump repeatedly cited the idea that he had saved Kavanaugh’s career, particularly in the face of a fierce backlash over decades-old sexual assault allegations during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
“In retrospect, he just hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice,” Trump said. “I’m basing this on more than just the election.”
You don’t have to look closely to see the similarities between what Trump was saying then and what other prominent Republicans are saying now: He doesn’t have the “courage” or the “backbone.” The left “broke” him. He may actually be a liberal.
It’s a rather transparent effort to appeal to the side of Kavanaugh that we saw during his confirmation hearings — the fiery jurist who responded angrily to the allegations made against him. And more than that, Kavanaugh seemed to suggest some kind of retribution.
He called the Democrats who railed against him “evil” and, turning to them to address them directly, said, “You sowed the wind,” and “the country will reap the whirlwind.”
But what bookended that performance — and his ultimate confirmation — was plenty of conservative consternation about him, irrespective of the personal allegations. Conservatives worried before his nomination that his lower-court decisions on Obamacare and other social issues were insufficiently to their liking, and they mounted a late push against his selection.
Since then, Kavanaugh has arguably conducted himself along the lines of what you would’ve expected before his confirmation hearings — conservative, but more in the mold of the type of establishment conservative he had long been. It’s turned him into the most frequent swing vote on the court and the justice most often in the majority. Along the way, this has meant siding with liberals sometimes, such as in the health-care vaccine mandate case, a key Fourth Amendment case, a death penalty case and a case allowing iPhone users to sue Apple over the prices of its apps.
Shortly before the 2020 election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton that he had raised concerns with Trump about Kavanaugh’s and Gorsuch’s nomination.
But Cruz added: “It is too early to assess the tenures of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. These things are typically measured in matters of decades rather than just a couple of years.”
A little more than a year later, some leading conservative firebrands are clearly not content to wait for decades of Kavanaugh decisions. They’ve decided to put him on notice that they’ll go after his character at the drop of a hat when he rules the wrong way — even when he rules the right way the very same day."
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Whiny crybaby snowflakes. The right wing mouth breathers at Faux News can't find something to complain about, so they go out of their way to complain about a default disabled option in Microsoft Word. What f**king losers!!
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A pox on the nation.
‘ "Rumors are that Doug Ducey, the weak RINO Governor from Arizona, is being pushed by Old Crow Mitch McConnell to run for the U.S. Senate," the former president said in a statement. "He will never have my endorsement or the support of MAGA Nation!"‘
‘ "Rumors are that Doug Ducey, the weak RINO Governor from Arizona, is being pushed by Old Crow Mitch McConnell to run for the U.S. Senate," the former president said in a statement. "He will never have my endorsement or the support of MAGA Nation!"‘
"There is nothing more difficult and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. One makes enemies of those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support from those who would prosper under the new."
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"For the life of me, I cannot fathom how so many knowingly get fed garbage, and cheer it? What kind of low self-esteem do you have to have to cheer this con artist?" - Adam Kinzinger, reacting to Trump's rally rhetoric in Arizona
by cradleandshoot » Fri Aug 13, 2021 8:57 am
Mr moderator, deactivate my account.
You have heck this forum up to making it nothing more than a joke. I hope you are happy.
This is cradle and shoot signing out.
Mr moderator, deactivate my account.
You have heck this forum up to making it nothing more than a joke. I hope you are happy.
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Gonna Gaetz what’s coming?
“The woman, who CBS News is not naming to protect her privacy, testified in front of a federal grand jury in Orlando last Wednesday. She is viewed as a potential key witness, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. One of the sources said she has information related to the investigation of both the sex trafficking and obstruction allegations.“
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/matt-g ... probe/#app
“The woman, who CBS News is not naming to protect her privacy, testified in front of a federal grand jury in Orlando last Wednesday. She is viewed as a potential key witness, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. One of the sources said she has information related to the investigation of both the sex trafficking and obstruction allegations.“
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/matt-g ... probe/#app
"There is nothing more difficult and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. One makes enemies of those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support from those who would prosper under the new."
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Though delayed (I just received the complaint), let's remember to keep things civil, no personal attacks. Especially as the off-season is rapidly shifting to the on-season.
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Boss Hog. Real Trumpnista bossing the locals.
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So, Google Maps shows no interstate (although I-22 is close) in Brookside, AL, but that sure looks like a picture of an interstate speed trap.
"There is nothing more difficult and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. One makes enemies of those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support from those who would prosper under the new."
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This is what we get when we let racist republican pieces of sh*t write book censorship laws. As predicted by anyone with even half a brain.
Fuc*ing snowflakes. Cry babies that can't abide the truth.
Fuc*ing snowflakes. Cry babies that can't abide the truth.
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UPDATE: a quarter of a million citizens of Michigan have filed a petition to fire the judge.jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:52 pm 72 year old cancer patient threatened by Michigan judge with jail for not keeping his grass mowed.
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Just reserved Jerry Craft's "New Kid" and Class Act" from the library. My guess is that CRT is not a large part of the books' storyline. on the positive, because of the ban, sales of his books have exploded...jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:52 am This is what we get when we let racist republican pieces of sh*t write book censorship laws. As predicted by anyone with even half a brain...
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... of course it has nothing to do with Critical Race Theory. 99% of the stuff these dumbasses claim as CRT, has nothing to do with CRT. Dumbass white people, being dumbass white people.Matnum PI wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:06 pmJust reserved Jerry Craft's "New Kid" and Class Act" from the library. My guess is that CRT is not a large part of the books' storyline. on the positive, because of the ban, sales of his books have exploded...jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:52 am This is what we get when we let racist republican pieces of sh*t write book censorship laws. As predicted by anyone with even half a brain...
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Classic r BS, claim credit for someone elses work:
Does this make them socialists?
Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Kay Granger (R-Tex.) voted against the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal in November but are now touting funding for projects in their states, thanks to the measure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... y-opposed/
DEPLORABLE
Does this make them socialists?
Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Kay Granger (R-Tex.) voted against the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal in November but are now touting funding for projects in their states, thanks to the measure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... y-opposed/
DEPLORABLE
by cradleandshoot » Fri Aug 13, 2021 8:57 am
Mr moderator, deactivate my account.
You have heck this forum up to making it nothing more than a joke. I hope you are happy.
This is cradle and shoot signing out.
Mr moderator, deactivate my account.
You have heck this forum up to making it nothing more than a joke. I hope you are happy.
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Incredible how folks SO AFRAID of something called Socialism could be SO ALL IN for something called Dictatorship...
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Governing a la 1886:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -they-are/
"President Biden at his news conference last week asked the question that the media should have been asking Republicans for months: “What are they for?”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won’t say. Asked last week what was in Republicans’ agenda if they regain control of Congress, McConnell told reporters: “That is a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back.”
Consider the arrogance and disdain for voters inherent in that answer. Responsiveness to the voters? Solutions to the problems they complain about, such as inflation? Only suckers would care about such things, Republicans seem to believe. They prefer to spend their time concocting cultural wedge issues, spreading conspiracy theories and obstructing progress on issues for which there is broad, bipartisan consensus (e.g., a path to citizenship, reasonable gun laws).
But it would be misleading to say Republicans are not for anything; they certainly do have an agenda. The problem is that it is so unpopular they dare not remind voters about their plans.
Republicans have clear views on taxes. They want to protect the super-rich from paying more taxes, even though billionaires became 62 percent richer during the pandemic and many pay practically no federal income taxes. And Republicans really don’t want corporations to pay their fair share either. They favor keeping the corporate tax rate at 21 percent, even though corporate income taxes make up a mere 7 percent of federal revenue. (The Tax Policy Center reports: “Revenue from [corporate taxes] has fallen from an average of 3.7 percent of GDP in the late 1960s to an average of just 1.4 percent of GDP over the past five years, and 1.1 percent of GDP most recently in 2019.”)
Republicans are also for underfunding the Internal Revenue Service so that the agency does not have adequate resources to enforce existing tax laws. And they would like to do away with the child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40 percent. It is not a stretch to say Republicans actively promote income and wealth inequality.
Republicans are in favor of forcing women to continue pregnancies and giving birth, even in cases of rape and incest. They also delight in incentivizing Americans to spy on pregnant women whose reproductive choices don’t match the party’s religious doctrine and to turn them in for bounties. Meanwhile, they strenuously favor protecting anyone who refuses to be vaccinated or wear a mask. In other words, Republicans favor “personal choice” when it comes to preventing the spread of a deadly disease, but not when it comes to a woman’s body.
Republicans are all in when it comes to keeping in place monuments to the slave-owning traitors of the Confederacy; removing anything from school curriculum that might make White people feel uncomfortable, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK; and stopping the FBI from investigating death threats against school board members and other public officials. No wonder white supremacists are so enamored with the GOP these days.
Republicans are also the best friends of climate change. Why else would they oppose the Paris accords, new subsidies for green energy, measures to phase out of coal and higher car mileage standards? They are, however, all for emergency aid when extreme weather strikes — but only for their own states.
And now we know Republicans are devoted to making voting harder and giving Republican lawmakers the ability to elbow out nonpartisan election officials so they can control vote-counting. They are definitely for respecting election outcomes — only when they win.
You don’t have to be a mind reader to figure out why McConnell wants to conceal Republicans’ agenda for as long as possible. What’s not to like?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -they-are/
"President Biden at his news conference last week asked the question that the media should have been asking Republicans for months: “What are they for?”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won’t say. Asked last week what was in Republicans’ agenda if they regain control of Congress, McConnell told reporters: “That is a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back.”
Consider the arrogance and disdain for voters inherent in that answer. Responsiveness to the voters? Solutions to the problems they complain about, such as inflation? Only suckers would care about such things, Republicans seem to believe. They prefer to spend their time concocting cultural wedge issues, spreading conspiracy theories and obstructing progress on issues for which there is broad, bipartisan consensus (e.g., a path to citizenship, reasonable gun laws).
But it would be misleading to say Republicans are not for anything; they certainly do have an agenda. The problem is that it is so unpopular they dare not remind voters about their plans.
Republicans have clear views on taxes. They want to protect the super-rich from paying more taxes, even though billionaires became 62 percent richer during the pandemic and many pay practically no federal income taxes. And Republicans really don’t want corporations to pay their fair share either. They favor keeping the corporate tax rate at 21 percent, even though corporate income taxes make up a mere 7 percent of federal revenue. (The Tax Policy Center reports: “Revenue from [corporate taxes] has fallen from an average of 3.7 percent of GDP in the late 1960s to an average of just 1.4 percent of GDP over the past five years, and 1.1 percent of GDP most recently in 2019.”)
Republicans are also for underfunding the Internal Revenue Service so that the agency does not have adequate resources to enforce existing tax laws. And they would like to do away with the child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40 percent. It is not a stretch to say Republicans actively promote income and wealth inequality.
Republicans are in favor of forcing women to continue pregnancies and giving birth, even in cases of rape and incest. They also delight in incentivizing Americans to spy on pregnant women whose reproductive choices don’t match the party’s religious doctrine and to turn them in for bounties. Meanwhile, they strenuously favor protecting anyone who refuses to be vaccinated or wear a mask. In other words, Republicans favor “personal choice” when it comes to preventing the spread of a deadly disease, but not when it comes to a woman’s body.
Republicans are all in when it comes to keeping in place monuments to the slave-owning traitors of the Confederacy; removing anything from school curriculum that might make White people feel uncomfortable, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK; and stopping the FBI from investigating death threats against school board members and other public officials. No wonder white supremacists are so enamored with the GOP these days.
Republicans are also the best friends of climate change. Why else would they oppose the Paris accords, new subsidies for green energy, measures to phase out of coal and higher car mileage standards? They are, however, all for emergency aid when extreme weather strikes — but only for their own states.
And now we know Republicans are devoted to making voting harder and giving Republican lawmakers the ability to elbow out nonpartisan election officials so they can control vote-counting. They are definitely for respecting election outcomes — only when they win.
You don’t have to be a mind reader to figure out why McConnell wants to conceal Republicans’ agenda for as long as possible. What’s not to like?"
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The coveted MTG endorsement:
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The perfect bookmark to his slow walk into stupidity.
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Why aren't more forumites outraged at the "de-sexifying" of anthropomorphic M&M's? Opinion hosts don't even want to have a drink with them anymore. Crimes against America!