Republicans: continued

[Joe]

Carlos Danger was a good one.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Representative Gaetz of Florida is giving Louie Gohmert of Texas a run for his money in the 'most obnoxiously ignorant hyper-partisan blowhard' competition.

'Interview with GOP’s Matt Gaetz devolves into shouting match after he proclaims "I should be allowed" into closed hearings'

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) led a crowd of Freedom Caucus members to storm a secure room where Democrats and Republicans in the House Intelligence Committee have been holding depositions.

According to committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), once depositions are finished the open and public hearings will begin. He explained the depositions are important to do in secret so witnesses don’t coordinate with each other as they seemed to do in the Russia investigation.

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[Hallie Jackson:] “We started on this conversation on the idea that Republicans walked into this secure area of the capitol yesterday, including some Republicans who could have just gone in and participated as members of those committees as the rules allowed. What was the point of this? Was this really anything more than a stunt?”

Gaetz proclaimed it was to highlight the inequities and lack of “due process” in the investigation. Investigations don’t have due process, proceedings are where due process occurs. Until then, the Republicans in the room are there to ask questions of the witnesses behind closed doors. Republicans who want to posture for the cameras, however, can’t do so publicly in the classified room.

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“I should be allowed in that room as a member of the Judiciary Committee, Armed Services Committee and they wouldn’t let us in. It begs the question of what are they hiding,” Gaetz said. The Armed Services Committee doesn’t have anything to do with the impeachment inquiries.

Jackson shot back that neither of the committees he is on are conducting depositions, which seemed to anger Gaetz, who began yelling back and forth with the host. Gaetz’s committee hasn’t subpoenaed anyone.

“I don’t know that. I don’t know that. No,” Gaetz insisted.

“It is a fact,” she shot back.

“It’s not a fact. Now you’re shifting ground. Go back and look at the 12th hearing of the Judiciary Committee,” he shouted. “You cannot misstate that as a fact. How can you tell me it’s a fact that my committee is not involved when it was the Judiciary Committee who launched the investigation.”

Jackson explained that the Judiciary Committee may be launching their own impeachment inquiry, but they are not doing closed-door depositions, which Gaetz would be able to be part of. Schiff’s Intelligence Committee is.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I expect this festering pustule to be confirmed to the US judiciary by Trump's senate lickspittles, just as so many of the same ilk have been. Just a few days ago they confirmed a lawyer who'd never tried a case to a lifetime appointment on the bench.

'Trump judicial nominee breaks into tears in hearing over scathing finding that he’s "arrogant, lazy" and "an ideologue"'

Lawrence J.C. VanDyke openly wept on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as he was confronted with a blistering review from the American Bar Association, which found that he was not qualified to serve on the federal courts after having been nominated by President Donald Trump.

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VanDyke isn’t the first of Trump’s nominees to get strong pushback from the ABA. Law.com reported that nine of Trump’s nominees have been rated as “not qualified” for the federal bench by the organization. At least four of these nominees have been successfully confirmed nevertheless, while others have been blocked. The ABA’s rating process has been criticized by conservatives, who say the organization is biased against nominees who aren’t liberals.

[Svartalf]

tories have a grand mastery of bad faith, lawyers have a nonnegligible presence of archconservatives among them, I assume that the ABA is representative of the profession as a whole, and not particularly trusted by liberals.

[Tero]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly pointed to a valet in the Heritage Foundation parking lot Thursday and asked him if he wanted to be a federal judge. “Hey, kid, how’d you like a lifetime appointment on the Ninth Circuit, huh?” asked McConnell, interrupting the 19-year-old temp worker’s protests that he didn’t know anything about the law to tell him that all he needed was “wipe that dumb look off your face” and he could be delivering rulings by the end of the week.
https://politics.theonion.com/hey-you-w ... 1839506844

[Tero]

Romney on a useless mission:
A man standing alone — really, really alone
First and foremost, Romney has decidedly not gained the ability to assemble a team of fellow travelers around him to stand united in opposition to Trump. Far from it; as conservative writer Varad Mehta noted in Arc Digital, Romney’s popularity is underwater in his home state of Utah (he has a 46-51 percent approval rating), but Trump’s popularity has remained remarkably static — and very high — within the GOP...
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy ... mpeachment

[Tero]

Trump buys all 53 senators
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/3 ... DVLNgyX1EI

[Tero]

Missouri about to shut down last abortion clinic due to regulations added, that have no bearing on health

[Scot Dutchy]

Abortions here are carried out in normal hospitals and clinics and paid for by normal health insurance.

[Svartalf]

In the US, they have a special procedure called brain abortion, they destroy the brain while letting a living baby be born, that's how they produce republicans.

[Brian Peacock]

Missouri about to shut down last abortion clinic due to regulations added, that have no bearing on health

Someone should plot that against population.

[Tero]

Did not find such a map. This gives some idea


from
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Abortion_in ... s_by_state

[Sean Hayden]

Missouri also has some of the worst schools in the US.

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I wonder if there are any good stats on the morning after pill yet? You'd think it would reduce the number of abortions.

[Tero]

Best idea yet! Flush the baby!
But it won't reach all the rural areas. Some cities of good size have only a Walmart pharmacy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/morni ... -pill-ban/

Would have to search CVS and Walgreens location.

[Tero]

Alaska lawmaker
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/don-youn ... 9f48220fe8