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Toensing: FBI Probe Pointless

September 28, 2018 by GregC

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Washington is abuzz this weekend over news that will most likely result in learning nothing new about Dr. Christine Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

On Friday, just hours after announcing he would support Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would vote the nomination out of committee but not support it on the Senate floor unless an FBI investigation lasting no more than one week examines Ford’s allegations.

But will the FBI probe accomplish anything more than the Senate Judiciary Committee did in gathering statements from all the supposed witnesses?

“Nothing.  They’re going to repeat what the committee has already done,” said former federal prosecutor and Justice Department official Victoria Toensing.

Toensing says the FBI will simply interview the witnesses and write down their responses.  Agents will provide no analysis.

“They don’t ever make a decision about whether this person is credible or not credible.  They just write down the words they are told and they give it and they give it to the committee then.  It’s the committee that decides whether it’s truthful or the allegation is serious or not serious,” said Toensing.

She says this is how the confirmation process is supposed to play out and the Senate Judiciary Committee is supposed to investigate any allegations confidentially.  Toensing blasted California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee, for her handling of Ford’s allegation, including assisting Ford behind the scenes prior to an eleventh hour publicizing of the accusation.

She says Feinstein is being rewarded by Flake for bad behavior.

“What Dianne Feinstein did was outrageous and I’m sorry that she’s getting rewarded for it by getting this extra time but the Republicans didn’t have any choice,” said Toensing, who says Flake’s compromise is just the latest example in how the two parties operate.

“The Republicans just aren’t very good at fighting.  They’re not.  Democrats know how to kill.  Republicans bring a little lasso to the gunfight,” said Toensing.

Toensing says all of this is a ploy from Democrats to delay confirmation, pointing out that for weeks Democrats groused about not getting enough paperwork from Kavanaugh’s background.  Now they demand an FBI investigation and already some are publicly wondering whether a week is enough time.

Toensing says we’ll see the same talking points a week from now.

“I predict that next Thursday night or Friday morning, when this week is up, that the Democrats will find reasons to say, ‘We can’t just go ahead now.  Look at this.’  They’re going to ask for another postponement.  They’re like a drowning person, grabbing for anything just to stay afloat,” said Toensing.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: FBI, Ford, Kavanaugh

‘You Saw the Real Brett Kavanaugh Today’

September 28, 2018 by GregC

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh defended himself with passion and emotion Thursday, blasting Democrats for their handling of his nomination and describing the pain that sexual assault allegations have had upon his family.

For more than 30 minutes, Kavanaugh excoriated Democrats for turning “advise and consent into search and destroy” and painstakingly described why the allegations are in complete contrast to a lifetime of high character and rave reviews from classmates and professional colleagues.

“It was so powerful.  I think you really saw the real Brett Kavanaugh today,” said Judicial Crisis Network Chief Counsel Carrie Severino, who says Kavanaugh is not only concerned about his future on the judiciary but whether he can continue other passionate pursuits such as teaching and coaching.

Severino says the most gut-wrenching moment was when Kavanaugh relayed the story of his young daughter’s reaction to the sexual assault allegations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

“His ten-year-old daughter, as they were saying their evening prayers together, was saying that we should be praying for Dr. Ford as well,” said Severino.

Many liberal reporters castigated Kavanaugh’s opening statement as angry and unhinged.  Severino says it was understandable.

“I think that’s a reaction most of us can identify with.  If you thought, ‘How would I feel if I was being falsely accused of something.’  Judge Kavanaugh says he’s absolutely being falsely accused.  He says, ‘I never had anything to do with this,'” said Severino.

Ultimately, Severino says lawmakers should weigh the evidence, primarily that no person or evidence exists to corroborate Ford’s claim.

And she says lawmakers should confirm Kavanaugh.

“I think very few senators at this point are going to want to vote against such a qualified, universally respected judge in favor of what’s ever more looking like a partisan smear job,” said Severino.

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Kavanaugh & Graham Fight Back, Pathetic Media Reaction, Credibility Gap

September 28, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America discuss how Brett Kavanaugh’s passionate defense of his character and record and Sen. Lindsey Graham’s denunciation of Senate Democrats galvanized most Republicans around the Kavanaugh nomination.  They also slam the mainstream media for continuing it’s appallingly biased coverage of Kavanaugh, this time horrified that the judge was angry for being accused of being a gang rapist and that his wife and daughters are the recipients of death threats.  And they roll their eyes as Democratic Sen. Dick Blumenthal, who lied about being a Vietnam veteran for years, grilled Kavanaugh on questions of credibility.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Blumenthal, credibility, Ford, Graham, Kavanaugh, media, National Review, Three Martini Lunch, Vietnam

GOP’s Missed Opportunity at Ford Hearing

September 27, 2018 by GregC

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Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says Dr. Christine Ford came off as a compelling witness Thursday, but he also says major problems exist with her a account but the Republican-hired counsel failed to ask about them properly.

McCarthy, who is now a contributing editor and columnist at National Review, spoke after Ford’s testimony and before Kavanaugh’s impassioned rebuttal.  McCarthy says sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell did not make good use of her time.

“Mitchell seemed to think she was conducting a deposition and gathering a bunch of information that could be used later on.  In a proceeding like this, you have to go right to the point,” said McCarthy.

He says there are many holes in Ford’s story understands Republicans deferring to Mitchell since Democrats were ready to pounce with their narrative of eleven white men harassing an alleged sexual assault victim, but he says Mitchell was more focused on being kind than getting the facts.

“She need a ride home somebody.  Yet, she can’t remember how she got to the party.  She can’t remember how she got back.  She doesn’t remember what she said to the first person she saw who would have been the first friendly person there to give her a ride home after she had been through this terrible incident.

“None of those aspects of her story make sense.  And the way that a lawyer would normally handle that at a trial or at a hearing would be to ask her pointed, leading questions about that.  Instead what Mitchell did was ask these sort of open-ended questions.  We got a lot about the topography of Montgomery County and the etiology of PTSD, but we didn’t find out a lot about what went on in that room,” said McCarthy.

McCarthy says the consequences of not challenging Ford’s story are significant.

“If you get to the end, and you haven’t laid a glove on her version of events, then what you’re asking these wobbly senators to do is confirm somebody who there’s good reason to believe attempted to commit a rape,” said McCarthy.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Ford, Kavanaugh, Mitchell, Senate, Supreme Court

Grassley’s Format Flop, Doppelganger Confessions, Kamala’s Reckless Stunt

September 27, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America growl in frustration as the questioning of Dr. Christine Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh is chopped up into five minute chunks for each party, preventing any sort of flow to the GOP’s line of questioning. While some on the right want it to be true, Jim and Greg are skeptical of reports that two men have come forward to the Senate Judiciary Committee suspecting Dr. Ford might be remembering something they did to her. And they fume as California Sen. Kamala Harris forwards an anonymous accusation against Brett Kavanaugh containing virtually no details to the FBI for further scrutiny, leading Jim to suggest the FBI give lawmakers some clues about what they need to conduct an investigation.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: anonymous accusations, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Ford, Chuck Grassley, Kamala Harris, mistaken identity, National Review, Three Martini Lunch

‘This is an Attack on What it Means to be a Free People’

September 26, 2018 by GregC

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Three women now accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of serious sexual misconduct, but with no corroborating witnesses or evidence for any allegations, prominent conservative columnist and author Kurt Schlichter says Democrats must be defeated in their attempt to defeat Kavanaugh through “a burning garbage fire of lies.”

Schlichter is a senior columnist at townhall.com and author of the forthcoming book “Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy.”

The latest allegation against Kavanaugh comes from Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, whose client claims Kavanaugh spiked the punch at high school parties in the early 1980’s and then helped orchestrate gang rapes of incapacitated women.

Schlicter says the onslaught of eleventh hour allegations against Kavanaugh from more than 35 years ago is blatant smear campaign that must be defeated.

“It’s critical.  The Democrats have to lose.  They cannot win.  This cannot stand,” said Schlichter, predicting that if Kavanaugh were to withdraw the Democrats would bring forth similar tactics against any other nominee.

Instead, he says the GOP must plow through as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to do and let Democrats know they’ll do it again when and if a liberal justice retires while Republicans control the Senate and the White House.

But Schlichter says this is actually about principles far bigger than which party has the majority on Capitol Hill.  Schlichter, who is also a trial lawyer, says Democrats are perfectly happy to cast aside the hallmarks of our justice system.

“For cheap political advantage, you have Democrats getting rid of concepts like the right to confront your accuser, the right to cross-examine your accuser, the right to a presumption of innocence.  All that out the window for cheap political advantage.

“This isn’t just a judicial seat.  This is the most basic foundations of our Anglo-American jurisprudence.  This is an attack on what it means to be a free people that embraces liberty,” said Schlichter.

While some on the right wonder if Kavanaugh should withdraw because he would have such a tarnished reputation on the court, Schlichter says it’s more important to defeat the Democrats and allies like Avenatti in their efforts to take down Kavanaugh.

“We must say no.  No to these last-minute attacks, no to these manifest lies.  No to Stripper Matlock (Avenatti).  Does Stripper Matlock sound like the guy you’d go to if you really, really believed you had a meritorious case.

“I’m a trial lawyer in Los Angeles.  I know about guys like this.  I deal with guys like this.  You don’t go to guys like this if you are serious.  You go to guys like this if you’re trying to get on MSNBC.  You go to guys like this if you have a bogus claim that you know he’ll scream and yell about,” said Schlichter.

In our conversation, Schlichter also dismissed the accuser for supposedly knowing about regular drugging and gang rape and yet continuing to attend such parties.

As for this week, Schlichter says it’s a 50-50 proposition that the initial accuser, Dr. Christine Ford appears at all for Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.  He says the Democrats and media will laud Ford as compelling and brilliant regardless of her performance.

He says getting Kavanaugh confirmed is imperative, but if Democrats peel off two Republicans to defeat the nomination, he hopes Trump and the Republicans make this fight the central message of the midterm election season.

“You, the American people, will decide.  If you vote Republican, you are going to take the side of justice and truth and if you vote Democrat, you’re going to take the side of lies,” said Schlichter.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Avenatti, gang rape, Kavanaugh, Supreme Court

Nervous Dems in New Jersey, Voting By Phone, Biden vs. Biden

September 26, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are pleased to see scandal-ridden New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez in a very tight race against Republican challenger Bob Hugin, even though a GOP win is still considered difficult.  They also give two thumbs down to West Virginia’s plan to allow voters in 24 counties to vote through a smartphone app.  And as Democrats continue to demand an FBI investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, they get a kick out of then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden saying “The next person that refers to an FBI report as being worth anything, obviously doesn’t understand anything” during the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bob Hugin, Bob Menendez, Brett Kavanaugh, FBI, Joe Biden, National Review, New Jersey, online voting, Three Martini Lunch

McConnell Slams Dems, Antifa Harasses Cruz, Avenatti’s Dud

September 25, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Senate floor speech blasting Senate Democrats for their conduct during the Kavanaugh confirmation process.  They also unload on Antifa and the other menacing groups who berated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife and forced them to leave a Washington restaurant.  And they react to cable news fixture Michael Avenatti promising  an air-tight case of misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh only to walk back his bravado and go silent on Twitter.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Antifa, Brett Kavanaugh, Michael Avenatti, Mitch McConnell, National Review, Ted Cruz, Three Martini Lunch

Kavanaugh Fallout: ‘They Can Do That to Any Man in Any Business’

September 24, 2018 by GregC

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A prominent Washington attorney is blasting liberals for trying to sink the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh on the basis of two decades-old allegations that have no witnesses and no corroborating evidence, and she says if Democrats get away with these attacks, then no man will ever be safe.

“If this is allowed to stand and they can just make whatever allegation they want to wreck someone’s career they can do that to any man in any business, any office, any company, any organization anywhere in our country.  That’s allowing mob rule,” said Cleta Mitchell, a longtime Washington-based attorney who is a partner in the office of Foley and Lardner.

Mitchell has been involved in plenty of politically charged legal fights.  She represented conservative organizations harassed by the Internal Revenue Service after applying for non-profit status.  She says the Democrats’ talking point that all women accusers must be believed is absurd.

“This feminist notion that just because a woman makes an accusation, she must be believed, that just can’t be our practice and we can’t allow this  to continue.  This is a nightmare scenario that these left-wing activists have put our confirmation process into because they cannot find a credible reason to oppose Judge Kavanaugh on the merits,” said Mitchell.

Last week, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford went public with her allegation that Kavanaugh tried to force himself on her at a house party in Maryland in the early 1980’s while the two were in high school.  Ford mentioned three people in addition to Kavanaugh who were allegedly there.  All of them deny knowing anything about the incident.

On Sunday, Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a party their freshmen year.  Every alleged witness to that story also claims to have no knowledge although one person said he remembered hearing something about it shortly afterwards.

Mitchell says the dearth of corroboration in the allegations against Kavanaugh is staggering.

“They’ve offered nothing in the way of substantiation.  I think this is just desperation on the part of partisan Democrats who never had any intention of supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in the first place, who are angry all these years later that they weren’t able to stop Clarence Thomas’s confirmation with their Anita Hill concocted story,” said Mitchell.

“Neither of these people remember much about anything other than they have been able to find Democratic activist attorneys who are trotting them out as a desperation tactic in my view, but as a means of literally assassinating the character of this fine judge,” added Mitchell.

Mitchell says the hearings scheduled for this week that include testimony from Kavanaugh and Ford are nothing like a courtroom trial and will likely not change the debate much at all.  To begin, she says there’s not a single impartial juror, since all Democrats on the committee have opposed the Kavanaugh nomination from the start and all Republicans seem to support him.

She says Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., was even planning to hold a fundraiser featuring the liberal activist attorneys for Dr. Ford but that event had to be scuttled once it became public.

Mitchell says Democrats are trying to impose the Obama administration’s policy on campus sexual assault allegations onto the rest of the nation.  And it’s a policy Mitchell says was horrifically un-American.

“[The Obama-era rules] essentially required colleges and universities to establish these kangaroo courts in the event there was any allegation of sexual assault, where the accused would have no due process rights and they could be expelled without every being given an opportunity to defend themselves,” said Mitchell.

She says convicting people – even in the court of public opinion – without due process would send American down a very dark path.

“We need to be very leery, very leery, of any situation where we allow some unfounded allegation to stampede people into criticizing, or firing, or terminating, or blocking somebody without any shred of evidence .

“We better be very careful we don’t allow our country to get in that situation.  That reminds of the former Soviet Union and totalitarianism.  I don’t think we want to go there,” said Mitchell.

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Hirono Gets Honest Again, Media Malpractice, Rosenstein Roulette

September 24, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are enjoying Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono getting so much television time.  One week after telling all men to “shut up” and admitting she was fine keeping the Supreme Court seat vacant, she admits to CNN that she doesn’t believe Kavanaugh’s denials on sexual misconduct allegations because she doesn’t like the way he rules on cases and fears he would overturn Roe v. Wade.  They also blast the “New Yorker” for actually publishing a story from a second “accuser,” despite the fact the accuser could not definitively name Kavanaugh for the misconduct, all named witnesses had no knowledge of the incident in question, and the accuser actually told former classmates in the past week that she wasn’t sure she was targeted by Kavanaugh.  And they get dizzy from all the reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is on the verge of resigning or being fired.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: abortion, Brett Kavanaugh, confirmation, Mazie Hirono, National Review, New Yorker, President Trump, Rod Rosenstein, Three Martini Lunch

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