Boomerang Biden

Democrats will always embrace the argument they need in the moment regardless of future consequences.

Sooner or later it comes back around.

After thirty years of Dems effing with Republican judicial appointments, in 2017 the Senate GOP nuked the judicial filibuster without hesitation or regret.

A year and a half after the attempted lynching of Judge Kavanaugh, well, Joe Biden's got some explaining to do.  

Did he do it? This blog doesn't know, or care. These are not our rules. This is not how we think politics should be played.

Tough.

Merrick Garland isn't a Supreme Court Justice and Brett Kavanaugh is

...And he still likes beer.

Seriously?

The New York Times claimed Saturday that a new accuser witnessed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh committing an act of sexual misconduct as a freshman at Yale University.

Seriously:

We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. [Deborah] Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)

BTW the Times-critters reporting this story, Robin Pogrebin & Kate Kelly, got ahead by giving head, if you know what I mean, - or so sources exclusive to this blog have said.

Oh and the accuser running that non-profit is a lawyer who was part of Bill Clinton's* defense team. So yeah, no.

The inability of the left to simply accept a loss and, what's the term?...move on...is staggering. We can expect years of this, no?

As far as the accusation goes, let's for a minute assume it's true. The accusation is not true, of course. But let's assume the NYT's report isn't a pack of lies written by a pair of degenerate communist sluts. So what? And by the way, I can top it. Oh yes, Wesley College Will can top it.

Meanwhile, how's Ruth feeling?

*Rapist, pedophile

Wither Ruther Bader Ginsburg

With Ruth Bader-Ginsburg surviving another round of cancer treatment, the left is promising and threatening unprecedented action in case her seat becomes 'vacant'.

After the Kavanaugh fiasco, this blog is wondering how much worse things can get.

We shudder to think.

Just One Minute hopes the old bag will hang on till 2021. We almost agree with him.

Almost.

This blog had supposed an act of magnanimity might be appropriate in case of a 'vacancy'. Perhaps nominating a less conservative justice? Back in the days of W Alberto Gonzales was often put forward as a moderate candidate.

But let us ask ourselves, would Hillary! have shown magnanimity? Hillary!: magnanimity, what's that? So no.

War then.

Brett Kavanaugh: 80's Teenager

Did anyone else catch Judge Kavanaugh's movie references during Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's (Idiot, Idiotastan) cross examination on his 1983 yearbook?

Kavanaugh called the yearbook a disaster and said the editors were trying to imitate popular movies. Before he made the movie references we knew exactly what he was going to say: Animal House, Caddy Shack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Do you think he wanted to say Porky's? We think he wanted to say Porky's.

Ahhh….the 1980's teenaged sex comedy. Younger reader(s) this was actually a thing in the 1980's.

The best, Risky Business, made Tom Cruise famous. He was actually in another TSC  (Loosing it?) with Shelly Long, believe it or not. This was a vehicle for older woman to fantasize about deflowering Tom Cruise, as was Risky Business.

Come to think of it, the young Brett Kavanaugh reminds us a lot of Tom Cruise's Joel Goodson. Smart, focused, serious. He had the same hair, too.

It's good to see the senate get down to important issues like popular Gen-X movies.

Stroockisms

We give you Ace of Spades spot on analysis of the Kavanaugh confirmation:

This story had been a bus crash. 

Then it devolved into the crash of a bus filled with clowns.

Now it has entered a new phase: A bus full of circus clowns crashing into a school for blind children and even worse the clowns were doing their "Gasoline Comedy" act that day and now all the blind children are on fire and the clowns are trying to squirt water on them with their stupid lapel-flowers but the flowers are just squirting out more gas and the children are crying tears of fire out of their Unseeing Dead Eyes and holy shit a couple of the clowns look like they have boners and they're chasing around the fiery blind children trying to rub up on them with these bobbling clown-boners with big red bulbs on their tips.

It took us ten minutes to read our way through that. Ten minutes.

If you really want to crack up, use your computer's 'read aloud' function.

Middle Daughter: What's wrong with Daddy?
Youngest Daughter: I can't hear the TV!

Brett, Mad as Hell

Years ago Mark Steyn won the Monk Debate on immigration by getting angry. Reviewer Barbara Kay wrote:

Steyn slowly rose and riposted, in a tone of withering contempt, “I wasn’t going to do funny stuff. I was going to be deadly serious. (But) I’m slightly amazed at Simon’s ability to get big laughs on gang rape.” Vigorous applause. He went on, “Mme Arbour scoffs at the ‘newfound feminists.’ I’m not much of a feminist, but I draw the line at a three year old … and a seven year old getting raped.” Vigorous applause.

That's what happened with Judge Kavanaugh's stemwinder yesterday. It humanized him, millions of American women got teary. 

Does anyone really think Judge Kavanaugh did those things?

Democratic Senators are Farts and Fucks

Farts and fucks. That's what the Senate Dems wanted to talk about yesterday.

It is literally impossible to look worse than the Dems did.

We watched the questioning of Judge Kavanaugh. The Dems were very interested in his yearbook postings from 1982. 

At one point Senator Patrick Leahy (D Lake Champlain)*stated that he'd been on the committee for 43 years, as if that's a good thing.

Judge Kavanaugh was angry and annoyed. We liked how he asked the senators questions, and even interrupted. 'Na, I'm going to finish,' he told one who wouldn't let him answer.

What a farce. 

And the millions watching saw that it was a farce.

*He once tried to have Champlain declared the sixth Great Lake.

Right, Fierce and Terrible

We've never seen anything like Lindsey Graham yesterday.

Remember, this is a man who for decades has been trying to preserve the tradition of the senate. 'My friends' he would say.

Tell Sotomayor and Kagan Lindsey said hello. They were qualified, so he voted for them.

We've always been less hostile to him than a lot of other Trump guys. The man has always had integrity. He first drew our notice when he was one of the House Impeachment managers 20 years ago.

'I hope you never get it...'

Right Fierce and Terrible indeed.

Young Mr. Kavanaugh

We've watched the man closer than we would have liked to, and are fascinated by the 80's version of himself. 

He was a big man on campus, an over achiever and a jock.  He liked to party. He's got that early 80's hair. Anyone else reminded of Joel Goodson in Risky Business? We admit to being surprised by the virginity thing. Surprised but not stunned.

As it turns out we grew up with a kid like Kavanaugh. Private school, later Ivy League. Overachieving, charismatic, cute. The girls loved him. I mean he came walking down the street once, and the girls we were hanging out with all turned their heads and focused on him like lionesses spotting a zebra on the Serengeti. 

Funny thing was, he knew nothing about sex, he just wasn't that interested yet. Weird, we know, but those types do exist. We're not in touch but found him and today he manages a massive hedge fund.  

Ye to Mr. Grassley

Senator Chuck Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has come in for a lot of grief from conservatives circles over his handling of the Kavanaugh situation.

Get on with the vote already, many say. 

We disagree. We think Grassley has handled this affair brilliantly. At every turn he has called the Dem's bluff. 'Great! Let's have her testify! She has preconditions? Sure, we can do most of those? More time? No problem!'

With Grassley's patience the Dem's case grows worse. Dr. Ford has no case. Another alleged accuser, this Ramirez woman, was dug up by Democrat dumpster divers and really can't be sure it was Kavanaugh. All named witnesses stand with Kavanaugh.

Then there's Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti who seems to have been victimized by a 4Chan hoax. You never want to be victimized by 4Chan. 

For what' it's worth, we don't think Dr. Ford will testify tomorrow. Perjury is a serious crime.

Is Senator Booker a serial Groper?

We have called and emailed Senator Booker's office (press@booker.senate.gov) and received  no response to our questions about his possible youthful indiscretions:

My name is William Stroock. I am an author and blogger living in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Corey Booker has already admitted to groping a friend when he was 15. To the best of his knowledge has the senator groped anyone else?

This is my second request for comment.

Thank you for your time.

William Stroock

Kavanaughed II

At this point it's trench warfare. We urge concerned citizens to read the latest from the New Yorker. 

We are also told that creepy porn lawyer, Michael Avenatti, is coming forward with yet more allegations.

Today we will be placing some phone calls. One will be to our local GOP committee to volunteer. The others will be to our elected Democrat representatives and asking them if they can live up to the standard they have set for Brett Kavanaugh.

Never try to out crazy Will Stroock.

Kavanaughed

Do readers really need a detailed explanation of what we think about the Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford affair?

We will say two things.

First: after a while fights like this are important in of themselves. That is, it's no longer about the man, but the fight itself and it's important to win on those terms alone.

Second: Dems to Men: Drop Dead. That's the issue here guys. These are the Democrats. 

This slacker, Gen-Xer is so pissed that's he's actually motivated to contact the local GOP apparatus and volunteer. 

You're goddamn right we're mad.

The Media is Decadent and Depraved.

ABC News's Lauren Pearle needs info:

Being an ace reporter ourselves, we called Lauren. She's not picking up and as it happens her mailbox is full. Funny that.

So then we emailed Lauren and told her we had information on Brett Kavanaugh, which is true as we know all kinds of things about him, and are prepared to tell her that information in exchange for a list of all the guys she dated in high school.

Hopefully, the truth will emerge.

Name This with Update!

Ed Whelan is a lawyer, former Scalia law clerk and head of a legal foundation. Here argues that Dr. Ford's accusation against Judge Kavanaugh is a case of mistaken identity. Whelan even names names. There is some very interesting detective work here.  

The above seems,  I dunno, sketchy isn't the right word, maybe speculative? It also seems very actionable from a slander perspective*.

Still, Whelan is a lawyer, former law clerk, and head of a legal foundation. Its probably not a good idea to file suit against him.

We suspect more is coming.

Update: Whelan says naming names was wrong, but does not actually recant.

*What, you think a writer doesn't know a thing or two about libel law?

Taint This

Our own sense is that Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose driver of 20 years was a Chinese spy, was using the Blasey-Ford accusation to taint Kavanaugh, not actually derail the nomination.

Even Senator Feinstein doubts the veracity of some of the professor's claims.

In response Judge Kavanaugh said, 'Sure. I'll testify under oath. Let's do it.'

We are reminded of John O'Neill, president of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,  'If Senator Kerry think's I've slandered him he should build a case and sue me,' said the trial lawyer with 30 years experience.

Being a prof, Maybe Blasey-Ford thought she could #Metoo Kavanaugh through a Title-9 style kangaroo court.

In any event we agree with the analysis at Hotair, that this entire event is about to blowup.

Kavanaugh gets Thomased

If anyone wonders why we've come to loath the Democrat Party, the party of slavery, the party of secession, the party of the Klan and Jim Crow, the party of the civil rights filibuster, the party that lost the Vietnam War, the party that wanted to lose the Iraq Campaign, the party that gave us the  modern inner-city ghetto, the party of high crime and high taxes, the party of the BLM rioter and the illegal Mexican....

[Oh my-Ed]

...the last few sordid days are the reason why.

We state without hesitation that Professor Christine Blasey-Ford, well let's just say she has a problem with reality. This is all to convenient, too pat. 

We've been to this rodeo. Younger reader(s) this is what the Dems pulled during their attempted lynching of Judge Thomas.

We don't believe her. And even if we did, so what?

Anyone else wanna be judged by the actions of their 17 year old self?

So here's the battle next Monday.

I'm glad.

Kavanaugh not with a C but a K*

Brett Kavanaugh seems like a fine choice to us. Ann Coulter loves him.

He's part of that group of Originalist judges that the Bush Administration worked very hard to get into the judiciary. Chief Justice John Roberts is part of that group as well. This was a very big deal back in the 2000's. 

For some reason Brett Kavanaugh rings a bell with us. Was there some sort of confirmation fight back in the day? Was he mentioned a lot back in the old National Review Corner? Am I confusing him with ex-Eagles backup QB Matt Cavanaugh?**

He's most likely an easier confirmation that Amy Coney Barrett who's a hard core Originalist and seriously devout Catholic. We suspect Trump will have one if not two more SCOTUS picks, and he's saving Barrett for when the Senate is more Republican. 

Of course Kavanaugh is Catholic too, and the Dems will look like bigots challenging the man's faith.

Nice rollout on Trump's part. We don't ever recall a Prime Time intro like that. Leave it to Trump to turn a SCOTUS pick into a network TV show. Well done, sir. Never doubt that Trump understands media.

In the coming confirmation battle we strongly recommend following Powerline and Legal Insurrection.

*How long till the left hashtags KKKavanaugh?
**Also backed up Simms/Hostetler in 1990.