Unfair All Around: SF Chronicle Takes Feinstein To The Woodshed For Sitting On Kavanaugh Letter
Matt Vespa| @mvespa1 |Posted: Sep 20, 2018 1:20 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...in-to-the-woodshed-for-sitting-on-ka-n2520474
Well, in her home state, even the press is not happy with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). She detonated a bombshell as the Brett Kavanagh Supreme Court nomination was coming in for a landing—and it’s only further politicized the process, plunged it into chaos, and made the Me Too moment look like gluttons for punishment. Yes, Christine Blasey Ford, who was up until recently the anonymous, is the woman accusing Kavanaugh of an attempted sexual assault at a party…some 40 years ago. Kavanaugh was 17 years old at the time. There are no corroborating witnesses. Any that Ford named don't recall this incident; with some unsure if a party ever happened. Ford can’t remember how she got to the party, how the party came about, or who owned the house where it was hosted. It’s an unprovable allegation. It reeks of a hit job. There’s no way around it. Ford reportedly wrote a letter about the allegation, which was given to Feinstein’s people through Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo’s (D-CA) office. Ford has since retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, an anti-Trump Democratic operative, and taken a polygraph administered by a former FBI agent.
Yeah, this sounds like a woman who really wanted to remain in the shadows. No witnesses, no evidence, just a thin, unsubstantiated claim to kill the nomination of an eminently qualified judge over teenage antics. Should Kavanaugh fall, any allegation, from any point in time, and without evidence can be weaponized to kill nominations. That’s a horrible precedent, but liberals don’t care. The San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board took Feinstein to task for hiding this information, though the fact that she didn’t share it with her Senate colleagues or bring it up during the hearings is telling. Perhaps, as most who aren’t raging anti-Trump loons think, there simply isn’t enough there to legitimately bring this up. The allegation is unverifiable, so much time has past, and Kavanaugh, if he were a sexual predator, would have multiple women coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories. These men just don’t target a woman. There are multiples. But that’s not the point of this; it’s to delay the vote until after the midterms, or bring enough pressure to bear onto the GOP to keep delaying the vote due to the allegation, maybe even forcing Kavanaugh to withdraw. They want an FBI investigation. That’s not happening:
If Ford is a no-show, and she will be because the point of this whole game is to keep the flames burning, then the GOP should proceed - and they are. This is allegation is unverifiable, thin, shoddy, and reeks of political motivation. The GOP is giving her a lot of latitude, even offering to send interviewers out to California to get her testimony. Ford will say no. This is the working of a well-crafted politically motivated hit, but it’s spiraling out of control. Why? Well, the GOP sees right through it. Even the anti-Trump wing of the GOP says if Ford is a no-show, they’re voting to push the Kavanaugh nomination forward. The GOP isn’t dividing or buckling. Uh oh. Feinstein became a sorceress for chaos with this Kavanaugh stunt—and everyone is torching her for it. The Left can’t believe she held onto it, the Right says it’s all BS and a character assassination attempt by liberals. Things are going to get nasty. Democrats see Kavanaugh as the death of abortion rights; Republicans see him as the final piece to a solid conservative majority on the Court for the next generation. The battle has begun.
Matt Vespa| @mvespa1 |Posted: Sep 20, 2018 1:20 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...in-to-the-woodshed-for-sitting-on-ka-n2520474
Well, in her home state, even the press is not happy with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). She detonated a bombshell as the Brett Kavanagh Supreme Court nomination was coming in for a landing—and it’s only further politicized the process, plunged it into chaos, and made the Me Too moment look like gluttons for punishment. Yes, Christine Blasey Ford, who was up until recently the anonymous, is the woman accusing Kavanaugh of an attempted sexual assault at a party…some 40 years ago. Kavanaugh was 17 years old at the time. There are no corroborating witnesses. Any that Ford named don't recall this incident; with some unsure if a party ever happened. Ford can’t remember how she got to the party, how the party came about, or who owned the house where it was hosted. It’s an unprovable allegation. It reeks of a hit job. There’s no way around it. Ford reportedly wrote a letter about the allegation, which was given to Feinstein’s people through Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo’s (D-CA) office. Ford has since retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, an anti-Trump Democratic operative, and taken a polygraph administered by a former FBI agent.
Yeah, this sounds like a woman who really wanted to remain in the shadows. No witnesses, no evidence, just a thin, unsubstantiated claim to kill the nomination of an eminently qualified judge over teenage antics. Should Kavanaugh fall, any allegation, from any point in time, and without evidence can be weaponized to kill nominations. That’s a horrible precedent, but liberals don’t care. The San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board took Feinstein to task for hiding this information, though the fact that she didn’t share it with her Senate colleagues or bring it up during the hearings is telling. Perhaps, as most who aren’t raging anti-Trump loons think, there simply isn’t enough there to legitimately bring this up. The allegation is unverifiable, so much time has past, and Kavanaugh, if he were a sexual predator, would have multiple women coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories. These men just don’t target a woman. There are multiples. But that’s not the point of this; it’s to delay the vote until after the midterms, or bring enough pressure to bear onto the GOP to keep delaying the vote due to the allegation, maybe even forcing Kavanaugh to withdraw. They want an FBI investigation. That’s not happening:
If Ford is a no-show, and she will be because the point of this whole game is to keep the flames burning, then the GOP should proceed - and they are. This is allegation is unverifiable, thin, shoddy, and reeks of political motivation. The GOP is giving her a lot of latitude, even offering to send interviewers out to California to get her testimony. Ford will say no. This is the working of a well-crafted politically motivated hit, but it’s spiraling out of control. Why? Well, the GOP sees right through it. Even the anti-Trump wing of the GOP says if Ford is a no-show, they’re voting to push the Kavanaugh nomination forward. The GOP isn’t dividing or buckling. Uh oh. Feinstein became a sorceress for chaos with this Kavanaugh stunt—and everyone is torching her for it. The Left can’t believe she held onto it, the Right says it’s all BS and a character assassination attempt by liberals. Things are going to get nasty. Democrats see Kavanaugh as the death of abortion rights; Republicans see him as the final piece to a solid conservative majority on the Court for the next generation. The battle has begun.
