(09-17-2018, 10:49 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-17-2018, 07:39 PM)jj82284 Wrote: Last I heard the committee recommendation vote has been postponed.  The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hold full hearings on this accusation at the beginning of Next Week.  

Just to Recap, The accuser in this case does not know when this alleged incident happened.  This accuser does not know where this alleged incident happened.  The accuser has named one potential corroborating witness, Mark Judge, who categorically denies that the event ever took place.  The Accuser points to one other documented recounting of her story to a Couples therapist in 2012, some 30 years after the alleged incident and the released notes from that session do NOT name Bret Kavanaugh, just a random group of 4 (not two as the accuser currently asserts) Boys who attacked her at some alleged party/get together.  

What the @#$^ Is there to investigate?  

With sexual assault charges we have actually begun to invert the concept of due process.  The modern left (in the public eye anyway) has lead us down the perception that an alleged victim has the right to be believed.  What that means is that any woman making an allegation of sexual assault against a man is to be believed regardless of the veracity of her claim and apart from any supporting evidence or the lack there of.  In reality, in a free democratic society with the presumption of innocence, then the opposite should be true.  Criminal investigations should only be launched when there is probable cause that a crime has been committed and there is some supporting evidence.  In the case of modern sexual assault the fact that the accuser is female is all the probable cause that the media needs.  This claim is lacking any supporting evidence or even a basic testable premise of time place setting etc.  The idea that we are going to give this woman the floor of the United States Senate to tell some sad story about a Party she doesn't even remember is laughable on its face.  

Anyone comparing this to Merrick Garland is either ignorant or kidding themselves.  The Republicans controlled the Senate and stated very clearly that they were not going to consider Garland's nomination because of previous stances taken by the Democrats and the coming election.   They didn't coordinate a leak strategy to time a Story and destroy the name he spent his entire life building on the foundation of baseless unprovable claims to make him out to be a rapist.  #contextmatters.

You're correct that this situation is not exactly similar to Merrick Garland. First of all, it's not entirely clear that this is a deliberate delay tactics on the part of Democrats.  It was entirely clear that the Republicans intended to run out the clock on Merrick Garland.  Second of all the Republicans made no specific compalints against Merrick Garland at all.  They never said, "he made such and such decision that we disagreed with" or "he wrote such and such academic paper that we didn't like." They gave him no opportunity to answer any questions.  They gave him no questions  Democrats are at least making complaints about Kavanaugh that are specific to him.

Lol.  Not exactly similar?  One instance was the Senate majority leader using his constitutional role overseeing the senate in the process of advise and consent.  He stated, based on the stance taken by then sitting Vice President of the United States when he was head of the senate Judiciary committee.  Conversely this is a replay of the same disgusting political hit job that plagues certain Republican nominees when the Dems feel like they want to score political points at the expense of someone's life's work.  

As for no evidence, please.  a.) you can call it a stall tactic or a blatant attempt to derail his nomination wholesale.  The fact of the matter is that the Dems see, based on the generic ballot question, that there is an outside chance they could win the senate in November and if they get Kavanaugh pulled then that means that Schumer gets to gavel in a much more moderate even potentially left leaning nominee to fill Kennedy's seat.  b.) This guy has already undergone something on the order of 6 FBI background checks and already been through senate confirmation to the DC circuit court and his name has been out there for a year and this "letter" has been out there for the last 2 months.  It's just a coincidence that the left sat on this until all the hearings were over and we were less than two months away from an election and there is literally no time to in any way give this due process?  I have some swamp land to sell you.  

They Democrats didn't want a real investigation, there's no evidence or testable premise to investigate.  They want this to play out in the court of Public opinion and advance the narrative that republicans are the party of Fred Weatherford.

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