{"id":4228,"date":"2018-09-16T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/kavanaugh-is-in-like-flynn\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T13:38:17","slug":"kavanaugh-is-in-like-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/kavanaugh-is-in-like-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh is in Like Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

And what little credibility the Dems had left is out like Stout. (G. F. Stout<\/a>?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opponents of Kavanaugh lost the fight when they lost their marbles. His foes on the Senate Judiciary Committee and allied activists ensured that opponents to the nomination appear to be a pack of wild cranks. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Not only did the outbursts seem uncivil and destructive of Senate decorum, they may have violated federal criminal laws \u2014 including 40 U.S.C. 5104 \u2014 against disrupting congressional proceedings. Sen. Dick Durbin<\/a><\/span> (D-Ill.), instead of criticizing the criminal bedlam, called it \u201cthe noise of democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There's that word 'democracy' again! The chuckleheads need to define it or drop it. What do the Dems mean? Mob rule? The rejection of all procedural rules? The treating of the Constitution as if it were a tabula rasa<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Do Dicky Durbin and his ilk think the word has a talismanic power? Please do tell us what you mean, Dicky. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Then Sen. Cory Booker<\/a><\/span> (D-N.J.) made his contribution.  With great fanfare, Booker announced his \u201cSpartacus moment,\u201d daring to disclose committee confidential documents that revealed Kavanaugh\u2019s opinions about racial profiling. Of course, breaking rules appeals to the disruptive gang in the gallery, so Booker\u2019s play seemed well-designed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, in execution, Booker\u2019s plan was a disaster for Kavanaugh foes. Not only did Kavanaugh not support racial profiling, the documents were not subject to committee confidential restraints in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then there is an important point I make in a very fine entry that I warmly recommend for your perusal, namely, that there is no such thing as racial profiling<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And what little credibility the Dems had left is out like Stout. (G. F. Stout?) Here: Opponents of Kavanaugh lost the fight when they lost their marbles. His foes on the Senate Judiciary Committee and allied activists ensured that opponents to the nomination appear to be a pack of wild cranks.  [. . .] Not … Continue reading “Kavanaugh is in Like Flynn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,56,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-morality","category-politics","category-race","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}