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IF AN HONEST SENATOR SPOKE–THE KAVANAUGH NOMINATION

Senator Unknown takes his turn to question Christine Blasey Ford:

 

“Ms. Ford, while under oath, do you affirm that you were attacked by the nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, 35 years ago when you were at a party, and sexually assault?”

 

“Yes, one hundred percent.”

“I have no further questions and yield the balance of my time.”

 

Senator Unknown takes his turn to question Judge Brett Kavanaugh:

 

Judge Kavanaugh, while under oath, do you affirm your denial of the incidents as described by Ms. Ford?

“Yes, categorically.”

“Mr. Chairman, it has become clear by the method and actions of the minority party that this hearing and critique of Judge Kavanaugh by Ms. Ford is not about an incident that may or may not have happened 36 years ago. The inquisition is about the hatred and anger expressed by the Senate minority toward Donald Trump and their inability to manipulate the circumstances by which this country is being governed.

The Senate minority has revealed who they really are, for they have assumed Judge Kavanaugh’s guilt and the accuracy of Ms. Ford’s 15-year-old memory from 35 years ago. But let us say the inquisitors have been consistent. In a more gentile time, you attacked Robert Bork in a smear and destroy campaign that taught them the lesson that such behavior worked. In their further desperation, you attacked Clarence Thomas in a similar manner as they are today, expecting a better result. But Americans have learned this tactic and the courage that it took to oppose the big smear from a willing actor who is able to sacrifice herself and her fragile integrity to an evil purpose by an evil method.

Now the minority has reinvented another version of their smear methodology. Ms. Ford sent a letter to her congresswoman, who in turn sent the letter to Senator Diane Feinstein. The letter described a sexually motivated attack on Ms. Ford by Judge Kavanaugh when they were children. The letter was so precious it was not revealed until the eleventh hour of the Senate advice and consent process. Senator Feinstein said that she did not have permission from the accuser, Ms. Ford, prior to that time to release the letter. So, what changed. Did Ms. Ford receive an epiphany or did Senator Feinstein exhort her to reveal her story to a newspaper in order to stop the Kavanaugh nomination. What is your guess? Integrity has taken a vacation.

Then we learned that Ms. Ford hired an attorney who just happens to be a Democrat political operative who defended well known politicians who have become known abusers of women. Suddenly, Ms. Ford and her attorney are making demands of the Senate committee, most of which deny the accused Judge Kavanaugh his rights to a fair hearing where he can have the legally expected right to face his accuser after the charges have been made. The accuser has no evidence or confirmation from witnesses that the incident happened. The next thing we see is Democrat fund raising letters going out the door denouncing the Judge who has not yet been allowed to hear the charges from his accuser while she is under oath. Now there are other claims of sexual harassment echoing throughout the country by other aggrieved women against the accused. Judge Kavanaugh is outraged at these accusations and denies all of them. He has passed six previous FBI background checks. There is no corroboration for the accusations. Ms. Ford, now, parrots, the narrative promulgated by Senator Schumer, that a full investigation needs to be done on these accusations. Senator Gillibrand doesn’t even believe that the truthfulness of Ms. Ford’s words should be questioned on the grounds that an accusing woman would never tell a lie and at the same time Senator Feinstein limits access to the original Ford letter.

Delay after delay is insinuated into the nomination process. Unsupported, gross accusations are made against a man who has advocated for women lawyers, and has a supporting letter signed by 65 of them, verifying his good character, as well as additional letters from those he knew from high school.

You ignore Constitutional principles in making your accusations, and it becomes apparent that the entire process has been orchestrated by you to take away the conservative nominee’s confirmation. Death threats have been made against both Ms. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh’s families. They are just collateral damage to you. You don’t care what you say because you have created for yourselves a no-lose scenario. Even if the Kavanaugh nomination is confirmed, you have stated that you will seek his impeachment. You continue to promote your we against them, men against women scenario. It is consistent with your identity politics view. When you return to your base voters, you will, again, accuse Republicans of being sexist and bearers of every phobia under the sun. If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, you will have an enduring bogey man for the impending election in November.

Your process is a sham. Since when in America is the mere accusation of wrong doing sufficient to condemn any person. Senator Gillibrand said of Ms. Ford: “I believe her because she is telling the truth.” Well, I believe him because he is telling the truth. I believe him because Democrats are desperate to keep Judge Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court. I believe him because of the exemplary life he has led. I believe him because the accuser has given herself over to the political prostitutes who have sold their integrity for the power they derive from demagogic allegations that can not be proven or disproven. In other words, j’accuse.

I accuse the Democrats, of loathsome behavior after their verbal assault rooted in Judge Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook, which was used against a genuinely virtuous man, of, integrity, honesty, and decency.

I accuse the Democrats of using unsupported testimony to destroy American democratic ideals of law and justice.

I accuse the Democrats of debasing the Senate of the United States of America by abusing the Constitutional basis of our jurisprudence.

I accuse the Democrats of sacrificing the accuser as collateral damage, for her original intent was to remain anonymous.

I accuse the Democrats of lying to the American people about their concern for the alleged victim, when their real aim is to advance their prospects in the upcoming election and destroy Brett Kavanaugh.

[1] For those who may be unaware, this essay concerns the Supreme Court nomination by President Trump of Brett Kavanaugh and the accusation by Christine Blasey Ford that he made a drunken, sexual attack against her 35 years ago when she was 15 and he was 17 years old. 

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DIVISION IN AMERICA

Flying flash bang grenades, foul invective and, violent threats to fellow human beings seem to coincide with the appearance of Donald Trump on the political scene. So, is it true that Donald Trump has caused these sordid events to occur?

Wikipedia notes an Einsteinian principal, as follows: “simultaneity is not an absolute relation between events” Put another way, two events occurring at the same time do not prove that one occurred as the result of the other.

In the case of the Trumpian presidential candidacy, it can fairly be said that rough language and ad homonym attacks happened during the primary. By conventional standards, John McCain was a war hero, and yet Trump suggested the opposite. Trump, also, denigrated a Muslim family speaking against him at the Democratic Convention whose son had died in service to his country. At the same time, patriotic Republicans were getting ready to nominate Donald Trump and elect him.

During the Campaign, Trump, the presidential candidate, labeled Hillary Clinton as “crooked Hillary”. That the truth is a defense in argument, makes the candid, if impolite words, more stinging. Trump jumped from mere slander to sharp harangues that said something. Hillary Clinton committed felonies in using a non-government issued server and obstruction of justice in destroying equipment and information belonging to the government in an attempt to cover up her crime.

Up to that point, the Left-leaning press, had mocked Trump in documented scenes of derisive laughter while denouncing the possibility that a billionaire businessman and reality show host with orange hair could ever become president of the United States. As the race progressed, this view never changed because they knew that America saw what they could plainly see, Hillary Clinton would be the first female president and her views were the mainstream and the embodiment of American values.

On election day, the bad news arrived like that old two-by-four on the forehead. The idolizing press wept and struggled to explain the Clinton loss. It was not just a political setback, but the death of a vision. As Hillary supporters began to absorb the setback, their emotions and their minds began to separate.

As time went by, the Hillary opposition coalesced behind a cabal of Department of Justice and FBI conspirators who contrived to undermine the authority of President Trump by inventing a story of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Never mind revelations by Wikileaks of actual collusion by the Hillary campaign to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination. Among other revelations, this appears to be a case of blaming the victim for what the perpetrator did herself. As noted, Hillary through her Democratic National Committee (DNC) tool contacted Russians using a route designed to create deniability. The DNC/Hillary actors contracted the firm, Fusion GPS, who contacted British spy Christopher Steele, who contacted the actual Russians who produced the so called “dossier” implicating President Trump before he became president in scandalous behavior in Russia. The dossier has, since, been repudiated by Christopher Steele as untruthful. Money will work wonders when you are talking millions of dollars from deceitful Democrats. Recent information shows the true collusion was between Bruce Ohr of the FBI whose wife works for, surprise, Fusion GPS. The Left continues to fight the facts as they are revealed one by one by investigations through congressional inquiries.

Still in denial over their stunning loss of the sure thing presidency, the Left contrived to connect Trump to actual knowledge of and collusion with a known attempt by Russia to induce division in America by releasing, what has become, “fake news.” The idea of simultaneity appears. If the sun rises and sets every day, and so does Trump from his bed, there must be a connection.

So, you ask, what does this have to do with the idea of division in America? The answer is that it is not the coarse-speaking Trump who has lowered the level of respect in this country, but the very real actions of Trump’s political opponents. It is obvious that emotions play a strong part in the enfolding events and magnify every word into vitriol. But the reality of the Trump Presidency has been the true nightmare for the Left. Truthfully, it has been a Shakespearean drama once the left realized how deeply conservative the president actually was and is.

The vision of Hillary as the first female president lacks consequence compared to the actual damage done to the world view of the Left—a view taken as sacrosanct and universally understood on their part. No longer would the selected elite be running an empire dedicated to the fear of death by planet overheating. The regulatory environment established by the Left, much of it by presidential executive order and bureaucratic control, appeared to collapse as the people realized the connection between suppressed employment and their own lives.

Even before the President took office, business confidence was boosted. Then, a tax reduction was signed by the president, jobs became plentiful, minorities once cast outside the circle of wealth, now had a way to build their own lives around income greater than the handout culture cultivated by the Democrats.

Great symbols of left wing victory came crashing to the ground as oil leases were granted on sacred democratic turf they thought would never be touched by any president. The same was true for bureaucratic control as Trump cited a new rule: for every new regulation, two had to be eliminated. Automobile mileage regulations were frozen, thus saving American automobile companies millions of research dollars. The research dollars will become investment dollars, and more liquidity percolates through the economy generating even more business activity and more jobs in a virtuous circle.

The Left has responded to the demolition of their empire with hate speech, and silence at the atrocious, rock throwing, window bashing, behavior of anarchist groups. And as they contribute to the retrograde confrontational nature of American leftist culture, they are defined, as the clergy say, by what they choose to ignore.

In the end, it was not Trump’s language that  lowered the level of discussion, but it was the act of tearing down the leftist world created by the Obama administration that did the trick. The response by the chief sponsors of the welfare state has generated the language of lies, obfuscation, and deception that reveals how the Left has lost their judgment along with their minds. The substance and revelatory nature of the Trump administration is what continues to exercise the hateful side of the Left in America. With business confidence restored, President Trump has been able to create jobs by reducing bureaucratic weights on business activity. He has also stimulated the economy with tax reductions for most taxpayers and the result has exposed the drag on the economy created by the Obama administration.

Finally, it is the unmasking of the truth that the left cannot abide.