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Location: The best kept secret in TX | My stomach is in knots thinking about the vote that's coming....
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Location: Kansas | Sen. Jeff Flake said he would be a "yes" vote and is now being harassed by protesters. Protesting seems to be Dems favorite sport.....swarming in the street like termites was never anything I personally would want to be a part of and it rarely has any effect other than to anger people.
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Frodo - 2018-09-28 11:50 AM Sen. Jeff Flake said he would be a "yes" vote and is now being harassed by protesters. Protesting seems to be Dems favorite sport.....swarming in the street like termites was never anything I personally would want to be a part of and it rarely has any effect other than to anger people.
Most protestors have degrees that no one is hiring for so they can't do much else than protest...It isn't like most have a job...
I wonder how many of them can tell you how each branch of Government works... who plays what role, etc...
Maybe that was a bit harsh.... But... mostly true... No?   |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | If you wonder about motive.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Flake is a Trump-hating, lame duck. He’s very damaged goods in Az, which is why he’s not running again.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him leave in a scorched-earth, blaze of glory.
It might be his way of getting one last blow in at Trump.
That kind of attitude might explain why his nose is so deformed. |
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Location: Kansas | IRunOnFaith - 2018-09-28 12:07 PM Frodo - 2018-09-28 11:50 AM Sen. Jeff Flake said he would be a "yes" vote and is now being harassed by protesters. Protesting seems to be Dems favorite sport.....swarming in the street like termites was never anything I personally would want to be a part of and it rarely has any effect other than to anger people.
Most protestors have degrees that no one is hiring for so they can't do much else than protest...It isn't like most have a job...
I wonder how many of them can tell you how each branch of Government works... who plays what role, etc...
Maybe that was a bit harsh.... But... mostly true... No?
When Trump was campaigning and protesters blocked the road (think it was in AZ), one guy was asked why he was protesting. He said "they" just handed me $50 and a Mexican flag and told me to cause trouble.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | jbhoot - 2018-09-27 6:38 PM I heard the whole thing on NPR. here is my take on the whole thing. Dr. Ford dramatic and emotional but with several gaps and holes in her answers. She had no one to back up her statements all four she said where there said it never happened. I would give a B for her performance. Judge Kavanaugh direct solid answers emotional and heart felt. No holes in his answers. I would give him an A. I think the Dem;s looked liked complete jerk's they are all Attorney's and I would not hire any of them to represent me for a traffic ticket. The Republican's where more than polite to Dr. Ford. At the end of the day it is still a he said she said. But I have to give the day to Judge Kavanaugh.
Will someone please explain why there was no follow up when Ford was pretty much caught lying about her fear of flying? Also, why was Kavanaughs yearbook fair game but Fords social media and three years worth of Holton-Arms yearbooks were scrubbed from the internet right before her accusation was leaked? I saw a few screenshots of the Holton -Arms yearbooks and I promise if they would have been as scrutinized as Kavanaughs yearbooks, her traumatized victim act would have been blown right out of the water.
I am so very sick of the political double standard! I took turns watching CNN and Fox last night, I swear it was like watching the news from two different worlds. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Poor Christine Blase’ Ford. She’s made so many sacrifices. She had to move her family because of death threats. She has been the lone voice. No support whatsoever. She endured that flight to DC to testify even though she is terrified at the notion of flying. That’s the kind of sacrifice she’s making. Life will never be the same for her.
That’s what the Democrats would like us to believe.
Here’s the reality: She’s already a folk hero on the left. Her legal services, including the polygraph (given while she was mourning her grandma’s death), are all pro bono. She loves to jet off to places like Tahiti, Hawaii, and the Outer Banks....lots. Her GoFundMe accounts are already up over $900,000.
She will write books, give paid speeches, and have movies made about her.
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Location: East Texas | And what are they doing about voting today? Any updates on that? |
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| horsesinharleton - 2018-09-28 1:43 PM
And what are they doing about voting today? Any updates on that?
I saw postponing a week to do an FBI investigations with a "narrow scope." Pointless to me as someone will only complain it wasn't thorough.
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Location: Kansas | horsesinharleton - 2018-09-28 1:43 PM
And what are they doing about voting today? Any updates on that?
Democrats cornered Jeff Flake (cozy little meeting) and talked him into going along with their FBI investigation obsession. So he voted to move on but with the caveat that there would be an investigation. So much could happen in that time and Dems will plan on it being chaotic.
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Location: East Texas | Frodo - 2018-09-28 1:57 PM
horsesinharleton - 2018-09-28 1:43 PM
And what are they doing about voting today? Any updates on that?
Democrats cornered Jeff Flake (cozy little meeting ) and talked him into going along with their FBI investigation obsession. So he voted to move on but with the caveat that there would be an investigation. So much could happen in that time and Dems will plan on it being chaotic.
Flake fell right into it.
That shouldn't surprise us and the Dems are getting exactly what this is all about... more time so there isn't a vote before the elections. A blind man can see that! |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | On a party-line vote, they moved it out of the committee to a floor debate and final vote. The FBI investigation was the stipulation Flake made before voting yes.
Basically, he has made a demand they must honor, because they can’t afford to lose more than one vote.
It’s called “making sausage” in political parlance.
If they honor Flake’s request, they supposedly will hold a final vote probably October 8. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I think that the protester that corner Sen. Jeff Flake and let loose on him was a set up, to me she was a fake, she was paid to act this way by the Dems, this was a good excuse on his part I think so that he could ask for the FBI investigation, it was all an act, why would they let her attack him this way at this time, good timing on the Dems part to let/have a protester slip threw.
Where were the police/guards when this was happening?
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Location: Illinois | Southtxponygirl - 2018-09-28 2:27 PM
I think that the protester that corner Sen. Jeff Flake and let loose on him was a set up, to me she was a fake, she was paid to act this way by the Dems, this was a good excuse on his part I think so that he could ask for the FBI investigation, it was all an act, why would they let her attack him this way at this time, good timing on the Dems part to let/have a protester slip threw.Â
Where were the police/guards when this was happening?Â
They were probably paid to look the other way & let them get to him. I highly doubt and security or police presence in a government building is any better than the rest of them. They know how it works there |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-09-28 2:38 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-09-28 2:27 PM I think that the protester that corner Sen. Jeff Flake and let loose on him was a set up, to me she was a fake, she was paid to act this way by the Dems, this was a good excuse on his part I think so that he could ask for the FBI investigation, it was all an act, why would they let her attack him this way at this time, good timing on the Dems part to let/have a protester slip threw.
Where were the police/guards when this was happening? They were probably paid to look the other way & let them get to him. I highly doubt and security or police presence in a government building is any better than the rest of them. They know how it works there
You're probably right, Just seems so fishly to me with the perfect timing of the protester  |
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Location: South Dakota | Senator Flake is a wretched piece of something, extending this character assassinating nightmare, allowing the Democrats more time, to cause mayhem. Since I can't do really much about this, except pray, and it is causing me to feel really angry at the whole political sh*tshow, I am turning away from any and all news on TV. Not listening to any pundits on TV, maybe tune into Limbaugh or Levin, for an update, and focus on things I can control. So fed up!!!! Hoping for a silverlining, somewhere in this dark cloud, over this nation. |
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Location: Ky | What the dems are doing is reprehensable. But it pales in comparison to what ***** MCConnel, Karl Rove and Ken Star would be doing if this was a democrat nominee.
The least you folks should do is own your hypocrisy.
Going by McConnel's own rules there should be be no supreme court vote in an election year.
It's all a ruse by both parties. To claim one party is doing it worse than the other is just plain stupidity. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | jd&ez - 2018-09-28 7:45 PM
What the dems are doing is reprehensable. But it pales in comparison to what ***** MCConnel, Karl Rove and Ken Star would be doing if this was a democrat nominee.
The least you folks should do is own your hypocrisy.
Going by McConnel's own rules there should be be no supreme court vote in an election year.
It's all a ruse by both parties. To claim one party is doing it worse than the other is just plain stupidity. Â
Whoa there slim. I’m your Huckleberry!
What does Rove have to do with any of this?
As to McConnell, explain, specifically, which “rules” he broke.
If memory serves me, I seem to recall a recent president repeatedly making the point that “elections have consequences”. Didn’t Obama make that assertion? McConnell didn’t break any rules. He took advantage of the fact that the Republicans held the majority in the Senate. Three years earlier, the implementation of the “nuclear option” by Harry Reid opened up the Pandora’s Box, thus paving the way for a simple majority to block any nomination to the Supreme Court. In effect, the dirty trick by Dingy Harry came back to bite Obama and the Democrats in the ass. Again, to quote Obama, “elections have consequences”. Any “broken rules” you wish to cite can be traced back to Reid.
For a conservative, the blocking of any consideration of Merrick Garland, was a Godsend. We got Gorsuch instead. Try telling us with a straight face that the Democrats wouldn’t do the same dam thing if given the chance.
Ken Starr was an independent counsel. I don’t see what an independent counsel has to do with Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle.
Your citing our hypocrisy is an excellent example of projection.
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