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And What’s Next?… Why The Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Turned Into A Circus

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By REY FLORES

By the time you are reading this, it’s possible that the Senate Judiciary Committee will have already voted for Brett Kavanaugh and sent him on his way to full Senate approval, making him the newest member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
However, given the way the first day of the hearings went, it’s impossible to predict what will happen with the rest of the process.
In as long as I have followed politics, political hearings, State of the Union addresses, debates and hearings, I have never witnessed such clownish antics coming from the unhinged lunatic left. From the very start, it wasn’t the wild, rabid agitators in the back of the room who started this clown show, it was the buffoonish Democrats like Cory Booker, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, and one of the left’s scariest newcomers, Kamala Harris.
The chairman of the committee hearings, Sen. Chuck Grassley, was a disaster. Watching him supposedly chair the meeting was like watching an old Keystone Cops movie. Never have I seen anyone try to run a meeting and get run over as badly as Grassley did at this hearing.
Democrat Senators Patrick Leahy and Richard Blumenthal took over at different parts of the first hour, basically hijacking the hearing, all in order to delay the inevitable.
If it wasn’t the Democrat senators attempting to unsuccessfully have the hearing adjourned and postponed, it was a gaggle of hecklers in the back of the room who kept yelling all sorts of inanities. Grassley yielded the floor to anyone and everyone who simply talked louder than he did. It also reminded me of those YouTube videos taped in an inner-city public school where the high school thugs bully a teacher into complete submission.
This was no accident. This was a very coordinated effort led by the likes of the slimy Chuck Schumer, which was planned over the Labor Day weekend via a national telephone conference call. It was classic Saul Alinsky 101.
I recall when I worked as a community and labor organizer how everyone would either sit in a big room, some in person, others on speakerphone, all licking their lips, drooling and guffawing at how we were going to disrupt, distract, delay, destroy, and screw things up all around. The goal was to keep our common enemy, or target as Alinsky would say, from doing their jobs and accomplishing their goals.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse schooled the Democrats with what he called “Schoolhouse Rock,” saying in one part that “we have to hash out the ugly reality that we are going to disagree with each other.” How simple is that? If the leftists could just for a moment look in the mirror and realize that their worldview will always be challenged by those of us who still value the sanctity of human life, the value of traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and the truth that God made only two genders, they just might see how insane they truly are, but evil distorts the truth, but evil will not win in the end.
There was another great moment when Republican Sen. John Cornyn rightfully called out the Democrats, calling their tantrums as nothing other than “mob rule.”
It absolutely was mob rule. These overpaid, do-nothing socialist Democrats showed zero class. They don’t care. They’ll get what they want no matter how they do it, “by hook or by crook,” as their idol Saul Alinsky taught them many years ago. The means are meaningless to these Marxist maniacs, as long as they get to their desired end.
To the right of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, there was the always abrasive, negative, and insufferable Dianne Feinstein. Like her other Democrat-socialist comrades, she started in on President Trump.
Everything is about President Trump with these crazies. If your coffee is too cold, it’s Trump’s fault. If you run out of gas and are stranded on the side of the road somewhere, it’s Trump’s fault. If your grandchild’s diaper stinks, guess what? It’s Donald Trump’s fault!
My goodness, the way the left portrays our president, you’d think he’d be a combination of any given natural disaster, a war, the worst illness imaginable, a Martian invasion, and Lucifer himself! President Trump can’t and will never catch a break from the Democrat left and their fake news buddies.
It’s really too sad because these lefties are so loud with all their crying, complaining, and screaming, that they never stop long enough to actually see and hear about how the economy is once again thriving in America. Today we have the lowest numbers of unemployed minorities in the nation’s entire history, but those things do not matter to these looney lefties. They want their White House back, all rainbow colored with the Occupier-in-Chief back in the Oval Office.
Why is Kavanaugh a real threat to these people? Because they think he will single-handedly overturn their most sacred law, Roe v. Wade. How dare they let anyone threaten their right to kill, mutilate, and vacuum up aborted human children? How dare anyone oppose how they sell aborted baby human organs and body parts like meat at a butcher shop?
It’s Roe v. Wade folks, Roe v. Wade. This is their Holy Grail, their very own Constitution and Declaration of Independence all rolled up into one. Roe v. Wade is their satanic bible and the altar at which they worship at. They refuse to let go of their legalized right to their mass human blood sacrifice.
Kavanaugh, especially because he was nominated by President Trump, is the absolute worst thing that could ever come down the pike to them. It’s like Election Night 2016 all over again for these lost souls. God help us when Kavanaugh is finally sworn in as the next supreme justice. I cannot even imagine what kind of riots and damage to property the Antifa goons will unleash, especially on Washington, D.C.
On the first day of the hearings, a total of 61 miscreants were physically removed from the hearings, amounting to a total of 70 arrests made that day. One of them was that busybody Linda Sarsour, the hijab-wearing Muslim activist and leader of the pro-abortion Women’s March. Bravo to the officers who arrested them. My question is this: Why did it take them so long to remove the loudmouths?
The remainder of the hearings wasn’t quite as dramatic, but like I said, we don’t know what the next weeks will hold.
Unlike the left-wing judges who legislate from the bench, Kavanaugh has even gotten the endorsement from the American Bar Association which isn’t exactly a bastion of conservatism. The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary on Friday, August 31 gave its highest rating of well-qualified to Kavanaugh.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, liberals.

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(Rey Flores writes opinion and book and movie reviews for The Wanderer. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)

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