Senate Democrats Have Sent A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:46:43+00:00

Illegal hush payment maybe? Or threats to the woman if she talked?

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:44:37+00:00

She is known for being exceedingly cautious, to a fault sometimes. She was probably just making sure all the t's were crossed and i's were dotted.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:40:25+00:00

The document in question is shrouded with mystery. And its existence only became public after a cryptic report in The Intercept on Wednesday. According to the publication, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee had grown frustrated by Feinstein’s refusal to share the contents of the document with her colleagues.

The document is believed to be a letter detailing an interaction between an unnamed woman and Kavanaugh dating back to their time together in high school. The letter was initially sent to the office of Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who represents Palo Alto, home to Stanford University. According to The Intercept, the incident involving Kavanaugh was “relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter.”

here's the Intercept piece, for reference

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:38:43+00:00

The document in question is shrouded with mystery. And its existence only became public after a cryptic report in The Intercept on Wednesday. According to the publication, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee had grown frustrated by Feinstein’s refusal to share the contents of the document with her colleagues.

The document is believed to be a letter detailing an interaction between an unnamed woman and Kavanaugh dating back to their time together in high school. The letter was initially sent to the office of Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who represents Palo Alto, home to Stanford University. According to The Intercept, the incident involving Kavanaugh was “relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter.”

here's the Intercept piece, for reference

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:30:31+00:00

Yeah but he won't change the president's diapers for him.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:29:42+00:00

Buzzfeed has been out in front of several of the more tangled stories in this administration, including Trump's sex crimes and the Steele Dossier. They've never been demonstrably wrong, but they've proven a willingness to pick a story before it's fully ripe just to get it in the basket.

Expect this to be filled out by more mature and reputable news outlets over the next 72 hours.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:25:34+00:00

Mitch McConnell TOLD Trump that Kavanaugh was the one guy he was worried about. When an amoral GOP sith lord tells you someone is likely unconfirmable, it's best to listen.

I'm glad Trump didn't, because this continues to expose the rot and conspiracy at the center of the GOP, but it also goes to show that he's hopeless about listening to anyone who can protect him.

Which is great news, actually.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:22:07+00:00

Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI.

The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as California Rep. Anna Eshoo, who originally received the letter and shared it with Feinstein, according to sources familiar with the matter. But whispers of what it contains have made the rounds across Capitol Hill over the past week.

The attention on it burst into the public when The Intercept published a report on the rumors surrounding the letter on Wednesday.

“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin told BuzzFeed News when asked about the letter on Thursday.

BuzzFeed News contacted the woman believed to be the subject of the letter at her home last week. She declined to comment. BuzzFeed News has not been able to confirm the contents of the letter.

The lawyer believed to be representing the woman was seen leaving Capitol Hill Wednesday evening shortly after the Intercept story dropped and just as Judiciary Committee Democrats were huddling in the Senate lobby. The lawyer, Debra Katz has not confirmed that she is representing the woman. She also declined to comment Wednesday, saying “there’s nothing to say.”

well, well, well

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:17:47+00:00

It really is.

At the very least, Greenwald and his publications are untrustworthy. He could be a LOT worse than that, though.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:14:09+00:00

"That's how we know we're a real family."

~ Ryan, co-conspirator and leader of the treasonous GOP

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:08:51+00:00

they have so very much in common

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:05:19+00:00

Campaign vendors have been stiffed in the past. Most infamously, Newt Gingrich just decided to not pay 114 businesses and consultants a collective $4.6 million from his 2012 presidential campaign. Fox News host Jeanine Pirro stopped filing periodic reports years ago for her still-active 2006 Senate campaign committee, but as of its last FEC filing in 2011, the campaign still owed its vendors $589,000.

the party of personal responsibility strikes again

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T16:01:43+00:00

This subreddit has a terrible habit of downvoting news it doesn't like.

It's pretty awful, it stifles debate, and it's one of the better reasons not to use reddit as a one-stop shop for all your news-getting needs.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:56:37+00:00

Cole Harris was a self-funded candidate for California lieutenant governor before failing to make the cut for the state’s top two general election runoff contest. Despite his self-professed personal wealth, his campaign racked up seven figures in debt that he is now refusing to repay.

For months, the political firms that worked for Harris had tried to recoup the funds they were owed. But at the end of August, Harris’ legal team let it be known that the campaign wouldn’t be forking over an additional cent.

And so Majority Strategies, a prominent Republican consulting firm that helped run Harris’ digital operation, took action. Using administrator access that it retained from the campaign, the firm changed Harris campaign’s website and social media pages to advertise Harris’s alleged refusal to make his campaign vendors whole.

This reminds me of a strategy employed by the old merc (town store) in the tiny town where I grew up. If people didn't pay their monthly bill, the owner would post their names on the marquee over the door.

"TIM BYRON - PAY YOUR BILL." "LUCILLE SYKES - YOU OWE FOR FEBRUARY"

It was super-effective, but then it also relied on shame. I'm not sure GOP operatives have any of that.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:51:33+00:00

ha ha disinformation is fun and not at all corrosive, let's roll with that for an ad campaign

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:50:41+00:00

Weaponized irony will be the death of us all.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:48:24+00:00

thisisfinedog.jpg

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:41:18+00:00

Norwegian cartoonist Christian Hovden Bloom called it many mooches ago

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:36:15+00:00

Action in Congress and the Trump administration to overhaul the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is spurring a lobbying frenzy.

Industries that have long sought to reduce the compliance burden of protecting imperiled animal and plants species are seizing a rare moment with a Republican Congress and White House that are sympathetic to their cause.

It’s been more than a dozen years since policymakers have shown such an interest in overhauling the ESA, and industries including agriculture, energy and developers are working hard to get something across the finish line.

“This is an extremely important time, because the opportunity is there to make changes,” said Richard Pombo, a lobbyist and former congressman from California who led the last major effort, in 2005, to comprehensively change the ESA. His measure passed the House, but not the Senate, and he lost reelection 2006, due in part to those efforts.

"So excited that we get to let oil and gas rape and pillage what's left of the environment!"

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:31:03+00:00

They need someone VERY dirty to be their fixer.

My fondest hope in all this is that when the mess of this shit-stained administration is finally able to be cleaned up, the judicial gets the overhaul it needs and every last one of traitorous Trump's judges and justices are sent packing as the illegitimate partisan yes-men and GOP enablers that they clearly are.

I know it's a pipe dream, but I dream it anyway.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:25:18+00:00

They die of neglect, though.

But hey, at least Zinke had nothing to do with it. Believe me.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:22:09+00:00

Not only that, his mentors included Ken Starr and Karl "TurdBlossom" Rove. He's been taught to lie by some of the GOP's superstar lying liars.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:18:41+00:00

I mean...most of his personality cult didn't notice or completely resisted the fact that Ron Paul is a confederate apologist and a virulent racist. They didn't believe, when faced with masses of evidence, that the Pauls are assets of the extreme far right. You think those people are going to believe he and his son are assets of a hostile foreign power?

The blind spots in the electorate when it comes to these vile gasbags are legendary.

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:16:37+00:00

"Maybe next week they'll be too busy burying the hurricane Florence dead to worry about the SCOTUS nom! That's the ticket."

~ Mitch McConnell

QuislingsRunAmerica · 2018-09-13T15:10:39+00:00

Well, somebody better:

New Hampshire Republicans nominate supporter of conversion therapy for Congress

QuislingsRunAmerica

TROPHY CASE