Sept. 19 Open Thread: Kavanaugh or Bust

Filed in National, Open Thread by on September 19, 2018

Confronted with Brett Kavanaugh’s sudden radioactivity, the GOP has decided on the only course it knows: Full speed ahead. Senators seemed to settle on a narrative by last night, to wit: This whole thing has been unfair to him. Never mind that this woman never wanted to come forward publicly, she had no right to bring this up to smear this fine man who lies and engaged in immoral acts to harm political opponents.

We’ll see how that plays between now and Monday, when the GOP has told Professor Christine Blasey Ford she’ll get her only chance to be heard. The professor, for her part, wants an investigation before any hearing. She has also gone into hiding because of the death threats she’s received.

For some unfathomable reason, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that dark money groups must disclose donors in most cases. It’s not permanent, but it’s an unexpected victory for transparency.

Hopeless twerp Marco Rubio managed to cut through the Kavanaugh crap with a bit of dickishness only he could engineer. Some celebrity chef I’ve never heard of cooked a meal for Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, so Rubio took to Twitter to attack him. Why? Probably he thought this would be a Trump-vs.-the NFL issue, an easy boost — who’s going to defend an incompetent dictator? But in his zeal to punish the chef, Rubio forgot that his trolling put the jobs of his constituents in danger. Lots of his constituents reminded him.

Another Republican asswipe in Florida, gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis, is also in trouble, not with the public but with his patron. Trump is pissed that DeSantis didn’t back him up when Trump whined about hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico being recalculated just to make Trump look bad.

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  1. You Dont Get It says:

    Will rape allegations against Bill Clinton be investigated?

  2. RE Vanella says:

    I’m still waiting to find out what really happened in the Teapot Dome affair.

  3. RE Vanella says:

    Congress votes 93-7 to approve $607B military budget, a $17B increase,
    @ericawerner
    reports

    This appears to be the biggest military budget outside height of the Iraq War

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013

    I guess Carper & Coons waved that magic money wand. Only works for army stuff I guess. And tax cuts for oligarchs.

  4. mouse says:

    I wonder how many schools we could have built with 17 billion

    • Arthur says:

      How many teachers could be hired with the money delaware gave to Bloom, Fisker, etc

      • Alby says:

        Sorry, but this one’s on the people of Delaware, who made jobs the No. 1 issue during the opening months of the Great Recession, one that government couldn’t do because its revenues were plunging, too. The only recourse was to bribe corporations, and it’s not easy to do that without money.

        I could go into a long explanation, but I don’t think you actually give a shit, you just want to complain.

        • Anono says:

          NO, it’s not on the people of Delaware. It’s on the elected officials, who did not read, what Bloom was all about. It’s on Markell and the rest! How much of the $21 million used to build the, Jack Markell Trail. Should have been used for schools, teachers, etc. Again, poor money management by the Dems!

          • Alby says:

            Yes, it is. They demanded, government delivered. What part don’t you understand?

            Funny, I was just talking with two people yesterday who were singing the praises of the trail. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it shouldn’t get done.

            Look up the voting on Bloom’s enabling legislation. Almost all members of the General Assembly approved, regardless of party.

            https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/21606

            What you keep harping on is done much better by the Caesar Rodney Institute. Keep harping on it here and you’ll be banned again.

            As for “poor money management,” I suppose you don’t mean Bloom, because that’s costing the government nothing, which actually is smart money management.

          • Alby says:

            Yes, it is. They demanded, government delivered. What part don’t you understand?

            Funny, I was just talking with two people yesterday who were singing the praises of the trail. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it shouldn’t get done.

            Look up the voting on it. Almost all members of the General Assembly approved, regardless of party.

            What you keep harping on is done much better by the Caesar Rodney Institute. Keep harping on it here and you’ll be banned again.

        • Arthur says:

          Funny. Blueprint for a Better Delaware said nothing about enormous tax giveaways to highly risky opportunities

    • RE Vanella says:

      Notice how Mitch doesn’t comment on these. Can’t upset his new friends. They may take to cracking the coconuts of the gays and the hippies again.

  5. mouse says:

    The Gordon Pond and Junction Breakwater trails that run from Lewes to Rehoboth have increased the quality of life in these beach towns more than anything I have seen in my 31 years of living here. The trails have created jobs, businesses and drawn many visitors simple to walk and bike these trails, all of which adds to the state’s economy.

  6. mouse says:

    In addition, these trails attract the type of new people who enjoy the outdoors and the quality of life these trails create as opposed to bitter old selfish tax cheat types who care little about anything other than complaining about the good things in life which they apparently lack the moral and intellectual development to appreciate !