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       Screaming And Whining To Save America!
       By: BJ Date: September 9, 2018, 2:11 pm
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       ByBEN SHAPIRO
       September 5, 2018
       This week, Democrats pulled out all the stops in their attempts
       to stop President Trump's pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, from
       gaining a seat on the Supreme Court.
       Now, Democrats have no power to stop Kavanaugh's ascension;
       thanks to former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Democrats invoked the
       so-called nuclear option in order to reduce the burden for
       approving judicial nominees down to a simple majority.
       This has left Democrats and their allies with two options and
       two options only: screaming and whining.
       First, the screaming.
       Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker,
       D-N.J., both of whom have already announced they will not
       support Kavanaugh's nomination, attempted to shut down the
       Senate Judiciary Committee Kavanaugh hearing.
       Harris immediately called for an adjournment so that she could
       supposedly review more of Kavanaugh's documents.
       Then Booker jumped in. By the end of the first 40 minutes of
       the hearing, Harris had interrupted eight times; Booker 10
       times; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., 13 times; Sen. Mazie
       Hirono, D-Hawaii, six times; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., three
       times; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., twice; Sen. Patrick
       Leahy, D-Vt., once; and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., once.
       Apparently, all were acting at the behest of Senate Minority
       Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was attempting to run out the
       shot clock or something.
       That was just the beginning. Women's March activist and
       terrorist sympathizer Linda Sarsour showed up to scream at
       Republicans; she was arrested.
       Several more feminist protesters showed up dressed as cast
       members of "The Handmaid's Tale"; other feminists simply
       screamed at the top of their lungs during the hearing, forcing
       their ejection. Planned Parenthood Action tweeted, "This is what
       the resistance looks like, and we're going to fight like hell to
       #StopKavanuagh."
       And so, the Democrats deployed the next prong of their attack:
       whining.
       First, a bevy of leftist commentators on Twitter deployed to
       inform Americans that Zina Bash, a former Kavanaugh law clerk,
       was secretly utilizing a white supremacy signal while sitting
       behind Kavanaugh.
       Amy Siskind of The Weekly List tweeted, "What fresh hell is
       this!!!??? Kavanaugh's assistant Zina Bash giving the white
       power sign right behind him during the hearing?
       This alone should be disqualify!!!" Eugene Gu, a Twitter
       celebrity doctor, called the supposed sign a "national outrage
       and a disgrace to the rule of law."
       Video of Bash earned millions of views on Twitter within a few
       hours.
       There's only one problem: Bash is half-Mexican and half-Jewish,
       and her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Oops.
       But more whining was in order. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a
       Parkland shooting victim, stated that he tried to introduce
       himself to Kavanaugh but Kavanaugh wouldn't shake his hand.
       Again, there was only one problem: That never happened. White
       House deputy press secretary Raj Shah explained: "As Judge
       Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual
       approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand,
       security had intervened."
       Here's the truth: Judicial hearings are largely useless at this
       point.
       Thanks to the destruction of Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork in
       1987, judicial nominees know not to answer direct questions
       about judicial rulings and philosophy, and senators know to only
       ask questions most likely to land them on television.
       With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
       R-Ky., should simply bring up Kavanaugh for a vote and end this
       circus.
       But he won't. The circus will continue. Our politics will
       continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the
       sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus
       has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.
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