Lindsey Graham is going all the way:

 

 

Graham asks where is the authority for the Supreme Court to block Congress from banning abortion [basically]

Graham asks if the only way is through constitutional amendment

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018

Graham now turns to 9/11 and makes the case that the war on terror means that America is a battlefield [ie rules of war not constitutional due process] should apply

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018

Graham ate his Wheaties this morning and is here to go all in for a christo-fascist nation

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018

Collins is lucky because now with Jon Kyl I don't think they need her vote. Then again she is a phony, so she may vote for him anyway. 

 

I'm glad that the Democrats are fighting, but it's disheartening to realize none of this matters - he will be confirmed and the public won't care. The best to hope for is that those on the left who love to stay home if they aren't being given their cookies every day might be pleased enough to show up in November.

Edited September 6, 20187 yr by DRW50

Some of the public will care.

Well, I've read the RS article...and maybe, once again, I'm reading too much into stuff...but it does seem awfully suspicious how Cornyn felt the need to take everyone to task after Harris and Booker.  Would Cornyn have responded the same way to two WHITE senators who chose to "cross-examine" Kavanaugh in the same fashion?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lodestar-mike-pence-anonymous-new-york-times_us_5b905dd5e4b0511db3dec1e1

 

For God's sake, Bubbles, GET A THESAURUS.

I'm seeing chatter on Twitter that by showing that Kavanaugh perjured himself in these hearings may be setting up ground to have him impeached later if we can swing the House. I don't know how true that is but I'm pretty sure that perjury counts as a high crime and misdemeanor.

Very damning. Miranda sends Kavanaugh very detailed info that Miranda clearly says came from "confidential" Senate Dem documents, being distributed only among Dem counsels, and tells Kavanaugh to handle that info with great secrecy. https://t.co/tvYAbnTPFO

— David Burbach (@dburbach) September 6, 2018

Folks I'm beginning to think Susan Collins does not actually support Roe v. Wade. She should just be honest about it. #mepolitics https://t.co/ROsnsrJew5

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 6, 2018

Folks from @NARAL now occupying Susan Collins’ office peacefully. pic.twitter.com/4pzIxA91nK

— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) September 6, 2018

Sen. Jeff Flake said he’s still inclined to support Kavanaugh even though Kavanaugh wouldn’t answer his questions about investigating a president.
But he added: “I wish he could be more forthcoming on something like that.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2018

A government photographer edited official pictures of Trump's inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents reported on by The Guardian. https://t.co/NWIxZ5gLo9

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 2018

Obama is about to go live with an expected 'major address':

 

 

Today I’m at the University of Illinois to deliver a simple message to young people all over the country: You need to vote, because our democracy depends on it. I hope you'll tune in at 11am CT: https://t.co/34WjNaVAcU

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 7, 2018

‘We Know How To Fight, We Know How To Win’: How Black Women Are Organizing For The Midterms https://t.co/sVeVlxbLYF via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 7, 2018

Obama: "Every one of us as citizens of the U.S. need to determine just who it is that we are ... As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a citizen, I'm here to deliver simple message and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it." (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/Tti5UhQlVg

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 7, 2018

First time Obama's said Trump's name since leaving office:
"It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause."

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

.@BarackObama says @realDonaldTrump is the symptom not the cause - he's simply capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years @MSNBC

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) September 7, 2018

Obama on the economy: "Let's just remember when this recovery started. I'm glad it's continued, but when you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on... suddenly Republicans are saying it's a miracle."

— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) September 7, 2018

Obama says Trump and others are practicing "exploitation" and have "no compunction and no shame of tapping into America’s dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division"

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

Obama: W/"electronic versions of bread and circuses…demagogues promise simple fixes to complicated problems. They’ll promise to fight for the little guy ..They’ll promise to clean up corruption even as they plunder away. They’ll appeal to racial nationalism that’s barely veiled"

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

Obama: Neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom, neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards than forwards; over the past few decades.. politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party

— Lisa Mirando 🇺🇸☕️🌼🙏👀 (@LisaMirandoCNN) September 7, 2018

Obama: "None of this is conservative. I don't mean to pretend I'm channelling Lincoln now, but that's not what he had in mind, I don't think when he formed the Rep Party. It sure isn't normal. It's radical. It's a vision that says our protection of our power is all that matters."

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

OBAMA on TRUMP: "Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people order & security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us... that's an old playbook. It's as old as time. And in a healthy democracy, it doesn't work." pic.twitter.com/INcHHo6MTw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 7, 2018

"The claim that everything will be ok because there are people inside the WHite House who are not following the president's orders ... that is not how democracy is supposed to work" Obama says, mentioning the op-ed

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) September 7, 2018

Obama on the NYT op-ed:
"That’s not how our democracy’s supposed to work. These people aren’t elected...They’re not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 % of the crazy stuff that’s coming out of this White House, and saying, ‘Don’t worry, we’re preventing the other 10%.’”

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

"Appealing to tribe, appealing to fire, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren’t for those who don’t look like us or don’t sound like us, or don’t pray like we do, that’s an old playbook. As old as time." - Obama

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018

"What happened to the Republican Party?," asks Obama. Their former organizing principle in foreign policy was anti-Communism, he says, "now they're cozying up to the former head of the KGB."

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018

Obama: "Even if you don’t agree with me or Democrats on policy ... I’m here to tell you that you should still be concerned and should still want to see a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government."

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

"It should not be Democratic or Republican — it should not be a partisan issue — to say we should not use the Attorney General or the Justice Department as a cudgel to punish our political opponents," Obama says.

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018

Obama: "How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad?"

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018

"I complained plenty about Fox News. But you never heard me threatening to shut them down or call them enemies of the people." –– @BarackObama

— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) September 7, 2018

"Each time we have gotten closer to those ideals [the] status quo pushes back," Barack Obama said as he referenced opposition to "our collective responsibility to care for the sick" and to protecting natural resources. pic.twitter.com/Z1ud9204RE

— POLITICO (@politico) September 7, 2018

Obama: "To make democracy work we have to be able to get inside the reality of people that are different...hope we can change their minds, and remain open to them changing ours."
But GOP says, "We'll be polite until you disagree with us...That's not civility."

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 7, 2018

"The definition of civility: 'We will be polite as long as we get 100% of what we want & you don't call us out on it when we're sticking it to people.'... That's not civility, that's abdicating your responsibilities." -President Obama

— Jessica (@JessicaGoldstei) September 7, 2018

Obama "Better is good. That's the history of progress in this country. Not perfect. BETTER...Do not let people tell you the fight's not worth it because you won't get everything you want." I LOVE THIS MAN

— Dr. Catherine Prendergast (@cjp_still) September 7, 2018

Obama: Common ground exists. I have seen it. I have lived it. I know there are white people who care deeply about black people being treated unfairly. I have talked to them and loved them. I know there are black people who care deeply about the struggles of white rural America

— Lisa Mirando 🇺🇸☕️🌼🙏👀 (@LisaMirandoCNN) September 7, 2018

"I know there are black people who care deeply about the struggles of white, rural America,” Obama says. "I’m one of them, and I have the track record to prove it."

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 7, 2018

Obama nods to the thousands who died in Hurricane Maria: "I know there are Republicans who believe government should only perform a few minimal functions but that one of those functions should be making sure nearly 3,000 Americans don't die in a hurricane and its aftermath."

— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) September 7, 2018

Obama: "The antidote to a government controlled by a powerful few, a govt that divides is a gov't by the organized, energized, inclusive many. That's what this moment is about. That has to be the answer. You cannot sit back and wait for a savior."

— Kate McGee (@McGeeReports) September 7, 2018

"You cannot sit back and wait for a savior.. We don’t need a messiah. We need decent, honest people.” —Obama

— Touré (@Toure) September 7, 2018

"You cannot sit back and wait for a savior, you can’t opt out because you don't feel that inspired by this or that particular candidate," Obama says. "This is not a rock concert, this is not Coachella. We don't need a messiah."

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018

"If you think elections don't matter, I hope the last two years have corrected that impression," says Obama. This feels like one of the lines we'll be hearing a lot from him.

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018

"If you don't like what's going on right now, and you shouldn't. Do not complain. Don't hashtag. Don't get anxious. Don't retreat, don't binge on whatever it is you're binging on. Don't lose yourself in ironic detachment. Don't put your head in the sand. Don't boo. Vote" — Obama

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) September 7, 2018

The press seems thirsty for a presidential quality speech that is coherent and sincere. I'm sorry I missed this speech, I always look forward to these occasions and they are becoming fewer and far between.

I was just in the other thread reading @Juliajms's post and speaking of POS who perceive themselves to be "masters of the universe", I clicked on CBSNews' livestream to see the idiot-in-chief railing  with the chryon at the bottom of the screen quoting him as saying that he supposedly fell asleep during President Obama's speech. 

You're the president of the god*damn United States of America and you're asleep in the middle of the f*ckin' day??

We all know he's lying but still, think about what he just said...

Edited September 7, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer

Reading what Obama said and then thinking about who the current occupant of the White House is is enough to make you cry with frustration. Talk about polar opposites.