Earlier this week, Senator Diane Feinstein accused Republicans are trying to block an FBI investigation into the allegation by California college professor Christine Ford that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in 1982. She must have known this was a lie, and even the Justice Department felt the need to issue a statement that would explain to America’s lawmakers what the FBI does, says:
The FBI does not make any judgment about the credibility or significance of any allegation. The purpose of a background investigation is to determine whether the nominee could pose a risk to the national security of the United States. The allegation does not involve any potential federal crime.
There you have it.
Stupid Democrats have already turned the hearings into an embarrassing clown show, and now, the Left is already billing this (Risky Businessgate) as a sequel to the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas fiasco. Anita Hill herself wrote in The New York Times that the committee “has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.” Yeah, right.
The Ford sexual assault allegation should not come as a surprise to anyone. Democrats want this delayed as close to the November midterms as possible.
Let’s take a little stroll down recent history lane in order to put the Ford accusation in perspective. Back in August, a large group of Left-leaning groups co-signed a letter to both Senator Feinstein and Senator Grassley demanding Kavanaugh records. We were graced with this same line of BS from Cory Booker and Kamala Harris during the opening day of the confirmation hearing. One of the groups that co-signed the letter was called the Project on Government Oversight, or POGO. The vice chair of POGO is a woman named Debra Katz. That’s right, the same Debra Katz that is now the lawyer for Kavanaugh’s accuser.
This gets even more stupid. POGO is directly funded by “Son of the Third Reich”, George Soros, and the Open Society Foundation.
In June the Daily Caller reported that a group called Demand Justice had launched an effort to try and stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation. They allocated five million to the project. Demand Justice gets their funding from something called the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and their funds come directly from George Soros and the Open Society Policy Center. They’ve given over two million in recent years.
Notes from the Margin
Even as ridiculous and stupid as this thing has become if you have a son in or on his way to college, I would take careful notes. Young men across the country are being falsely accused of sexual misconduct where there is little or no evidence. In the current climate, an accuser is allowed, without real evidence, to unutterably alter a young man’s life by an accusation that cannot be backed up by hard evidence. In 2011, the Campus Consent Law came to be folded into the federal mandate of Title IX, and colleges and universities were authorized to become quasi-criminal courts and adjudicate sexual assault complaints. In these tribunals, there appears to be no consideration of reasonable doubt, just that a preponderance of evidence be pointing to assault. That evidence is largely, of course, the girl’s say-so.
There is way more to this “story,” however, as has been emerging as the story plays itself out, and that has to do with the “culture” out of which these “future leaders,” our betters, come from, in the case of Kavanaugh and his accuser, the insular “country club” and “prep school” scene down around the fetid swamp of Washington, D.C. and its suburbs where the well-to-do and the politically powerful live in their own closed society and world.
It reminds me of George W. Bush’s 1999 Announcement speech about ushering in the responsibility era where he said his goal was to help “usher in the responsibility era…that stands in stark contrast to the last few decades, when the culture has clearly said: If it feels good, do it.”
Here it is, 19 years later, and we can see what an utter failure George W. was with regard to that endeavor, because Brett Kavanaugh and his “accuser,” Christine Blasey Ford, and their parents, and their prep schools are poster children for that “if it feels good, do it” culture.
The young, idle rich who have everything handed to them on a silver platter, who do not have to be responsible for their actions, who do not have to work for their living.
The upper crust of America, the culture out of which our future “leaders” in this country come from, including lawyers, politicians and judges, the people who determine the path of our collective future.
I have long thought of Washington. D. C. as a fetid swamp, as did some of the Americans who were alive back when the Constitution was being debated as we see from p.210 of “Miracle At Philadelphia – The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787” by Catherine Drinker Bowen:
Governor Clinton of New York – friend of Lansing and Yates, enemy of Hamilton – wrote, under the name of Cato, diatribes to the New York Journal concerning the ten miles square.
The court of the president would be held there, said Clinton.
In this place, men would see all the vices of princely courts: “ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor …. flattery …. treason …. perfidy; but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue.”
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Reading about the “culture” of the Washington, D.C. area that produced both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who is a victim of her own upbringing and the society and “if it feels good, do it” culture, it is clear to me that George Clinton was dead on the money back then with his assessment above here.
In a speech on June 17, 2003, George W. Bush said as follows:
“My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, ‘If it feels good, do it; if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else,’ to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make.”
“…You’re responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children.”
“You’re responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe.”
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That comes across as laughable today when one stops to consider our former president Hussein Obama was snorting coke and smoking dope while a prep school student back then, doing what made him feel good, and Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford were teenage wastrels and drunks, who were not responsible for their actions.
And those people are “our betters,” the ones we are supposed to be looking up to, or in the case of Christine Blasey Ford, feeling sorry for and outraged about how she was treated by a blotto Kavanaugh at an underage drinking party where girls from her exclusive prep school went to “hook up” with boys from Kavanaugh’s exclusive prep school.
**** the lot of them, is my thought, anyway.