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Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Many were surprised when Christine Blasey Ford actually showed up before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, September 17, 2018. None were surprised when the Democrats of that committee disgraced the committee, the Senate and the Congress. They did what Donald Trump has never done: made America’s enemies glad. They were not, as the media would have us believe, laughing at President Trump at the UN. They are surely laughing at Democrats, who would be delighted to sell our enemies the rope they would use to hang us.
Kamala Harris: an example of the worst America’s self-imagined elite has produced. I was surprised at Senator Lindsey Graham, he who has seldom missed an opportunity to ally with Democrats to damage America. For whatever reason, the scales seemed finally to fall from his eyes, and he told the Democrats what normal Americans, deplorables all, would hope everyone in Congress would say. But no. His fellow Republicans were the same cowardly, feckless, spineless political wretches we have come to know them to be.
I have come to several realizations. I’ll provide visual glimpses of the day’s events, weaving those observations in.
Two thus far unnamed men have come forward to say they–apparently individually–were involved with Ford. It was not Kavanaugh. Why would they do this knowing the social consequences, if not the potential legal consequences, there being no statute of limitations for sex crimes in Maryland? Because what they did, what Ford claimed, was not anything close to assault or rape. That two of them were involved with her in situations where she might have been later–35+ years–to cry pseudo-rape, suggests the incident–or incidents–was nothing more than consensual sex she later regretted, or a clumsy pass that didn’t work out.
The vaunted sex crimes prosecutor was something short of competent. In a process that hampered competent cross examination, she did not adapt, or was not allowed to adapt, and accomplished little. She did accomplish at least one significant thing: she made Ford admit her supposed fear of flying was a blatant lie.
Ford also admitted her supposed reluctance to go public was a lie.
Ford’s supposed best friend who was supposedly at the party, but dared to tell the truth that Ford is lying was, in the finest Democrat style, thrown under the sexual assault bus:
I’m sure she’ll understand. Anything for the narrative. Sense of shame? What is this “shame” of which you speak?
Wolf speaks of Blumenthal’s failed attempt at stolen valor for his non-Vietnam service. Several days ago, Ed Whelan provided a photo of a virtual 17 year-old Kavanaugh look-alike. Guess what Ford admitted?
Polygraphs are an interview tool, useful in manipulating people into confessions. There is no such thing as a machine that can detect what is an abstraction in the human brain. This is why they will never be admissible in court. Now we learn the polygraph examiner that fluttered Ford was a Democrat partisan and did not use even the recognized minimum techniques of that inexact craft:
Let’s take a little side trip to the most recent gang rape allegation:
This particular woman was an college aged adult attending teenage parties with high school kids with who she had no social connections, where she knew gang rapes were occurring, and claimed to have been raped herself at one of these parties. Yet she continued to attend them–more than ten–did nothing to help the poor rape victims–none of who have been identified–and merely avoided the supposedly spiked punch. So much for the sisterhood. There is, of course, no collaboration–at all–for her tale.
I’m not the only person skeptical of Ford:
Judge Kavanaugh, after enduring, with the patience of Job, unprecedented abuse from Democrats, finally had it. He demonstrated the manliness Republicans so obviously lack.
Democrat’s response, no doubt long planned, was predictable:
We certainly wouldn’t want anyone capable of defending themselves on the Supreme Court. Even during the hearing, there were early signs their ugly and inhuman behavior was backfiring:
President Trump carefully watched the proceedings, and is even more firmly behind Kavanaugh. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders demonstrated why she is such an asset: Final Observations:
As I write this late Thursday evening (late rehearsal), there are indications that even some Democrats in red states are now likely to vote for Kavanaugh, as any decent, moral person should. Perhaps the most telling moment of the day was when Kavanaugh was moved to tears–honest tears–as he recounted that his 10 year-old daughter told him they should pray for Ford. Democrats, of course, were not moved. Their faith is socialism, their deity, power.
Were this a criminal matter, and I still a detective, the decision not to make a referral for prosecution would not be remotely close. There is no evidence what Ford described ever happened. She can’t place it in a given year, a given place or a given time. There is no evidence Kavanaugh was ever within a mile of her. Her supposed witnesses have all said it didn’t happen and/or Kavanaugh didn’t do anything like it. There is no physical evidence. All actual testimonial evidence, including the two men who have provided confessions of sorts, absolutely contradicts Ford, and she was caught in multiple lies only today. The list goes on, none of it remotely supportive of Ford.
But now we come to impressions. Good detectives share their gut feelings only with each other, and occasionally, trusted prosecutors. They must deal in fact, not impressions, but it is their impressions, born of experience, that often lead them in the right direction.
Ford is lying. She knows–if anything at all happened–it wasn’t Kavanaugh. How do I know? All of the aforementioned–and unmentioned–evidence. I have never known a legitimate victim of a sexual crime to be unable to provide, to a reasonable degree of certainty, the date, place and time of their assault. Women inherently remember significant dates, positive or negative, even as most men do not. There are many other indicators of deception, but allow me to provide the indicator today that convinced me.
During her testimony, Ford, who claimed to be “terrified,” and was given repeated tongue baths by Democrats, managed, from time to time, to make her voice waver in volume and timbre in an approximation of what one hears and sees when a woman is crying. Her trembling did not reach her eyes, which she kept carefully, to an unusual degree, downcast. This is a woman that by profession, is used to public speaking. There were no tears. There were no tissues. What women facing an ordeal where any woman would cry, would not arrange to have tissues? She was faking it.
Might I be wrong? The gut is inexact, but more exact in an experienced, capable detective, than a polygraph. I suspect a great many normal Americans are getting the same impression.
Lindsay Graham told Democrats to their faces he hoped to God they never regained power. Knowing him, this will likely be a temporary hope for which he will apologize by helping them attain it. But he is, for the moment, absolutely right.
It is not a certainty, but it appears Republicans may have been sufficiently awakened to understand the damage a failed confirmation would inflict on the Congress and the nation. I am not hyperbolic when I suggest it could very well be a first step to civil war, for when a significant portion of the population believes they can no longer trust in our representatives, and half of the country, to willingly and honestly participate in American constitutionalism, what course remains?
Democrats demonstrated, with no attempt to hide it, no sense of decency, no respect for the Senate, for the American people, and for their black souls. They will tell any lie, go to any length to harm anyone whose destruction might benefit them. They wish to be government; government has no conscience; individuals and their petty rights mean nothing to them. Honor is not in them.
I find myself, not prone to descent into obscenities, running out of sufficiently accurate and negatively descriptive things to say about them. I’m sure I’ll come up with something eventually, as they are incapable of change. I have time. They have surely sold their souls, and for nothing more than a little, temporary political power.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: the glory of man is fleeting. If they do not back away from the precipice to which they are pushing us all, they will discover just how fleeting it is.
“Democrats, of course, were not moved. Their faith is socialism, their deity, power.”
And the Republicans are not “…nationalism, their deity power?”
Gawd.. where did old republicanism go.
Dear Doug:
I know we can both agree on the importance of American constitutionalism. I’m sure we can also agree the Democrat’s tactics and deportment in this case, particularly today, have been harmful to us all, and so bereft of morality as to leave honest men speechless and enraged. Republicans–and you’ve seen how little I think of most of them–generally support the Constitution. The attack on Kavanaugh is all about ignoring and/or overthrowing it by turning the Supreme Court into a permanent progressive super legislature. We can agree policy any day, but we have to agree that’s wrong and destructive to America, and I’d say the same thing if it were Republicans trying to do it.
The best article I I’ve read on this topic today
Dear canadacan:
Thanks!
I thought Ford seemed like there was something wrong with her mentally or emotionally
Then I read a psychiatrist who analysed Ford
He believes she has multiple personality disorder
Fly…no
Fly…on a plane last week
etc
Thanks for this, Mike. Agree with every word you said. (And again, I’d remind anyone who cares what I said here awhile back: I was a lifelong Dem and liberal not so very long ago.)
I tell ya, before the hearing started, I was really afraid that Kavanaugh would come out trying to stay all calm and “judicial”, measuring his words and being super careful not to “offend” anyone. But within seconds of him beginning to speak, I was alternating between cheering and nearly crying. I don’t know how many hearings and “opening statements” I’ve watched during my life, but what he did in those first few moments might be at the top.
Thank you for accurate synopsis of what happened. Great read and a great way to start Friday.
Michael, great analysis.
One thought, is there any recourse that Kavanaugh could file a lawsuit for slander against his accursers? Or are public officials have a higher standard to bring libel charges?
Thanks,
Michael
hehehe.. good point! Maybe they should delay the vote until the libel case is settled. :)
Doug, Why do you want to delay the vote?
I agree with Mike…I think Ford is lying. I also think she knows she is lying and has an unrelated personality disorder. She had to refer to her attorneys to answer almost every simple question. And the questions were light and simple. She was not challenged at all. I believe some criminal charges need to be brought against her for what she has done to this country, this process, this Judge, and his family.
And why is the (I’m afraid to fly) lie such a non issue? That should speak to credibility. Please someone explain this to me. Ford and Dems highjacked the country for days on that one.
Sure send the case to the fbi to find out why Ford did this, and who was involved in this sham, but certainly go forward with the vote, because this issue is solely about Ford, not the judge. There has to be consequences for hijacking the entire country for a sham.
As a female, I hate the way it is suggested that Ford should just be believed because she is female. That group think hurts all real rape victims. This mess certainly gives the crazies among us confidence to lie about rape.
I’d really like to see some of these senators have all of their actions going back to high school exposed along with their year books…starting with Blumenthal and Booker. .
I was rather being funni-ly sarcastic to Mr. Braden’s remark about a libel suit. As I’ve mentioned… I truly do not care how the vote ends up as I don’t give the selection process as much importance as the left or the right because all this entire argument is about is Roe v. Wade, LGBT, and Second Amendment cases and I do NOT feel those are the most important issues confronting the nation.
That’s all fine. But does it not bother you what’s being done to this guy? I assume you watched at least parts of the hearing, right? Kavanaugh’s opening statement at least? If not, PLEASE watch it and then tell me you think this guy is what some of these “survivors” claim. It was the most honest, heart-felt statement I think I’ve ever seen in any hearing.
Don’t mis-interpret my “I don’t care” stance regarding the process. I accept BK has the qualifications and experience and apparently the vetted ethics we expect our Justices to have. The rest is all politics… meaning the Dems would love to hold up the process until after the election when “presumably” the Dems will control the House and maybe the Senate. To them it’s all about limiting Conservative control of the Court, with some anti-Trump mixed in for good measure. The GOP wants their guy in simply because of what I stated… to them it’s all about Roe v. Wade, LGBT rights, and the occasional Second Amendment… which is.. politics… and I think there’s more important issues. Everyone wants an unbiased Justice but biased to want they want to see on the Court. Loony tunes.
The human side to this? I have always said and still think BK will be appointed. But no question it’s a gauntlet. BK’s opening remarks.. well, it’s already been asserted that he vented and ranted with an eye to make sure Trump was still on his side. For the idea of at least showing on the outside that he was a non-biased pick, he pretyy much blew that image out of the water with his totally Trumpian rant against the Dems reciting line and verse from the Conservative scream book… it’s all the fault of the
Dems, deep state conspiracies, and of course the Clintons.
I have no issue if he wanted to vent the process as being tough on his life, his family… and letting loose with emotion. I was sensitive to all that. But I also made a bit of a note that the “nearly crying” thing seemed to go a bit too far… of course I believed his sincerity… but.. at that moment I texted to a friend that “This guy is nearing a nervous breakdown.” He pulled through, but makes me wonder how much stress he can actually take… although a SCOTUS judge doesn’t seem all that stressful outside of wrestling with legal opinion and Constitutional interpretation. Bottom line here… he should have expected the worst when he signed on to be part of the process. I feel sorry for his experience… but that only goes so far. It’s politics and it sucks.
The Dr. Ford accusation…? Until the FBI comes back with something.. and they may not… I personally think their respective stories cancel each other out as far as the appointment/job interview process goes. Can’t prove the accusation then the process must ignore it and move on. Now…….. public opinion, which is HUGE in all this… has decided that Dr. Ford’s accusation is now the new frontline in the #MeToo struggle. This is the third element in all this, beside the GOP agenda and the Dem’s agenda. I felt sorry for her after her testimony, no question. Although I have MANY #MeToo related questions regarding her particular assault because I have some academics in this kind of thing, but that’s for another time… and that’s the essence of the problem in general.. there’s a lot to digest and people are being pissed off everywhere for all kinds of things.
I believe the both of them are conveying testimony they both believe is true. I can’t say I see anyone overtly lying. There are some who think that some investigation will show one or the other is outright lying, hence someone goes to jail for that. There’s a third possibility… one of them has simply an inaccurate memory of an event 36 years ago.
Unless the FBI uncovers something that points a finger, I’m guessing BK gets his appointment.
I just do not place all that much importance to a SCOTUS selection in general. Yes.. the advise & consent process is necessary (if they ever fix the damn process).. and the required vetting. If the person is qualified then make the appointment. My contention is that for the rest of their lives as a Justice they are very likely going to change and gradually perceive their responsibility is far more than party ideology.
In a way, this is the Kobayashi Maru scenario for Judge Kavanaugh.
The Kobayashi Maru scenario is designed as a no-win situation, and candidates are judged on how they respond when faced with unavoidable defeat. We have seen how Kavanaugh will respond when under the worst kind of fire, and I would not mind having someone with that temperament on the bench in the highest court in the land.
And the fact that it reveals the Senate Democrats to be trigger-happy Romulans is gravy.
And now we see why VP Pence refuses to be alone with a woman other than his wife.
And any woman who claims to have been raped, groped, or harassed is to be automatically believed, without question. Except for Paula Jones, Juanita Broddrick, and Kathleen Willey. Then it’s a right-wing conspiracy.
The Democrats would torpedo Oliver Wendell Holmes if Trump had nominated him.
Bernard Goldberg summed it up in the title of his book, “Crazies To the Left of Me, Wimps To the Right.”
Excellent article. The days of minor differences between the parties is long over. Humphrey and Nixon had much more in common that that which separated them. I dont believe that this is the case any longer between the Progressives and Conservatives. We really dont exist in the same universe and that which separates us is so great that perhaps a peaceful separation on ideological lines should be contemplated.
Dear JB:
I fear that may become necessary. I also fear progressives won’t allow it to be peaceful, particularly when the smarter among them realize they cannot survive on their own.
If I could point to a single event in history that points to what the Dems have become, it was the 1968 DNC in Chicago. Student radicals pitted against working class cops who worked under the old Daley machine. The “old” Democratic party…and the “new” that now runs the Democratic Party. Win their position and destroy the opposition by any means necessary in the tradition of Saul Alinsky.
Having lived in that city at the time.. and having been a young resident of one of the very few republican wards in the city at the time.. and personally NO lover of the Daley democrats at the time, I can say that up until Trump won the election, what the Chicago cops did was my most embarrassing political moment witnessed in my life. Having said that… the political mood of the nation was far more violent across the board than it is now for far more reasons…. as a result of baby boomers across all walks of life, economic strata, and racial divide. One could suggest that our current mood is also the result of aging baby boomers; hell, just look at all of them on that committee and in Congress.
But that’s not to suggest our current divide can’t/won’t get a bit violent…. but it will be less about urban uprisings, riots, and shootings in the streets. If it gets violent it will be internal terrorist acts from idiots who think they are “patriots”. Still.. I am optimist enough to think we will get past all this… but it will not be easy.
Lord Acton, not Action :)
Steve
Dear Steve:
Arrggh! Spell check. It’s fixed, and thanks for the catch.