{"id":63422,"date":"2018-10-02T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63422"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:13:00","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-october-1st-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63422","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, October 1st, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, October 1st, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, one brief observation on the current culture inspired by the baseless character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.\u00a0 By now, most of you&#8217;ve probably heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/little-girl-cheering-on-houston-astros-yelled-at-by-fan\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>little girl who was asked to tone it down by a fellow Astros fan<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Various accounts described the woman as &#8220;screaming&#8221; or &#8220;yelling&#8221;, while others (including the link in blue above) declared her guilty of &#8220;shaming&#8221;.\u00a0 All of which piqued our curiosity, as, having viewed the video, we found the woman firm but in no way loud or abusive.\u00a0 More importantly, we wondered h<\/strong><strong>ow\u00a0long and at what volume and\/or octave had little Chloe been cheering?\u00a0 Unfortunately, every version of the video we&#8217;ve viewed either begins with the female fan saying, &#8220;Enough&#8221;, or omits what led to her expression of displeasure; rather conveniently in light of the picture the parents want to paint&#8230;sorta like Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s memory lapses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span>\u00a0paying customer trying to enjoy the game\u00a0want to sit in front of a incessantly, shrilly shrieking child, regardless of their medical condition?\u00a0 And would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span>&#8230;other than a\u00a0drunken future SCOTUS justice&#8230;seek to silence a young girl over a simple scream or two?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>So absent any supporting evidence which provides <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>definitive<\/em><\/span>\u00a0context, any conclusion we&#8217;d draw would be almost completely based <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on feelings<\/em><\/span>&#8230;which while great grounds for personal relationships, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are no basis for a government or legal system<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\" class=\"broken_link\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the first edition of October with a few random thoughts on the passing scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First, as Jim Geraghty noted of the pride of the Nutmeg State at his Friday <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>This Guy Is Such a Richard<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-10.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-10-300x204.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal, at yesterday\u2019s hearing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BLUMENTHAL: <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cAs a federal judge, you\u2019re aware of the jury instruction\u00a0<em>falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus<\/em>, are you not? You\u2019re aware of that jury instruction.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">KAVANAUGH: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cI am.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BLUMENTHAL: <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cYou know what it means.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">KAVANAUGH: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cYou can translate it for me, Senator, you can do it better than I can.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BLUMENTHAL:<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cFalse in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span> thing, false in <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything<\/span><\/em>, meaning in jury instructions, that we \u2014 some of us, as prosecutors, have heard many times, is told a jury that they can disbelieve a witness if they find them to be false in one thing.<\/span> <em>So, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the core<\/span> of why we\u2019re here today really is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">credibility<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">From the\u00a0<em>New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0May 17, 2010:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>We have learned something important <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">since the days that I served in\u00a0Vietnam<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cAnd you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it \u2014\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0or\u00a0Iraq\u00a0\u2014 we owe our military men and women unconditional support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one problem<\/em><\/span>: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat\u00a0now running for the United States Senate, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never served in Vietnam<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war<\/em><\/span>, according to records.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Blumenthal is exceptionally lucky that the voters of Connecticut do not operate under\u00a0<em>falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we understand Brett Kavanaugh declining to highlight Blumenthal&#8217;s hypocrisy, where was the righteous indignation of his Republican supporters?!?\u00a0 Seriously, given Senate Dimocrats&#8217; unforgivable, indefensible assault on the character of an honest, upstanding jurist, was it really too much to expect <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span>\u00a0member of the GOP contingent to call Blumenthal out&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oc6Yo3A7CC8?start=26\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;for his situational ethics?!? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> a Republican sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee, immediately after shining the harsh light of reality on Blumenthal&#8217;s self-serving sanctimony, we&#8217;d have asked Richard Blumenthal&#8230;along with the rest of the Dimocratic &#8220;Dicks&#8221; on the committee&#8230;whether <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Blasey Ford<\/em><\/span> being found false in one thing, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her<\/em><\/span> entire testimony could be ignored.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Such as (1) a supposed fear of flying, which prevented her from arriving in Washington last Monday, and required and entourage to get her to the airport in time for Thursday&#8217;s hearing, nonetheless didn&#8217;t prevent her from taking regular vacations overseas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or (2) her references in testimony to Judge Kavanaugh by his first name, thus creating an air of familiarity which never existed, though she never really knew him, having traveled in different circles, different schools, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not mention (3) she was 15, going to a swim party (why else the swimsuit underneath her clothes?) 20 minutes from her home, and was dropped off but not picked up.\u00a0 A 15-year-old girl, going to a party&#8230;at night, in a strange neighborhood&#8230;and her parents weren&#8217;t committed to ensuring her safe return?\u00a0 And how DID she get home?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C&#8217;mon, Flake:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bullshit-meter-gif-11.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bullshit-meter-gif-11.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;wake up and smell the bullsh*t!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jim Freeman observed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/no-brettxit-1538152293?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Best of the Web<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/frankenfeinstein.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/frankenfeinstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/frankenfeinstein.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/frankenfeinstein-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Speaking of fairness and due process, Mr. Flake might have noted how far Sen. Feinstein strayed from such standards by sitting on Professor Ford\u2019s allegations for weeks and then springing them on Judge Kavanaugh after his confirmation hearings and just before senators were expected to vote.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Of course the professor deserves fairness, too. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That includes not just the right to be heard but also to be treated as something more than a political weapon by the people who claim to be looking out for her interests.<\/span> Thursday raised new questions about precisely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whose agenda<\/em><\/span> was being served by the team providing her legal and political representation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Megan McArdle, who for some reason agrees with Sen. Feinstein that the confirmation process should be delayed further, nonetheless\u00a0ticks off\u00a0in the Washington Post today a series of facts revealed in Professor Ford\u2019s testimony:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 <em>That Ford was willing to talk to investigators from the Judiciary Committee, though the committee was somehow unable to arrange this with her lawyers.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>\u2022 That Ford was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">somehow unaware<\/span> that the committee had, according to Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">offered to fly investigators to California to interview her<\/span>, though her lawyers should presumably have communicated that fact.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>\u2022 That Ford had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">found her lawyer through the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein<\/span> (Calif.), the committee\u2019s ranking Democrat, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">before the confirmation hearings began<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>\u2022 That <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only Feinstein and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) had the letter in which Ford outlined her allegations<\/span>. The letter set off the current turmoil when its existence was leaked to the media, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">despite Feinstein\u2019s promise that it would be kept confidential<\/span> \u2014 unless Ford decided to go public.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>\u2022 That Ford\u2019s fear of flying, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which her attorneys claimed made it impossible to hold the hearing last week<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">apparently didn\u2019t keep her from flying for work, family visits, or for surfing vacations in places as far-flung as French Polynesia<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For all but the most partisan Democrats, it surely must seem rather odd that again and again the people promoting Professor Ford\u2019s claim seem to have acted against her interests. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Who leaked her letter?<\/span> Once her name was leaked, who worked to delay her opportunity to share her story? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As for the Feinstein-selected lawyers, who were they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> representing?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Professor Ford has every right to dispute whatever legal bill is presented to her. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>And if no such bill ever arrives, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that will tell her and American voters a lot about what just happened<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ALL<\/em><\/span> for the purpose of perpetuating the slaughter the unborn.\u00a0 Contemporary Progressives&#8217; love affair with abortion remind us of Auric Goldfinger&#8217;s lust for gold:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DoQwKe0lggw?start=83\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about it: this is the SCOTUS equivalent of the Tailhook fraud, where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another baseless charge of sexual assault<\/em><em> utterly devoid of proof was used to decimate a once-respected institution<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is why the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>editors at <em>NRO<\/em> consider the one-week delay for a meaningless <em>FBI<\/em> investigation&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/jeff-flake-terrible-idea\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-09-29&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Jeff Flake\u2019s Terrible Idea<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jeff-Flake-ImWithHer-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jeff-Flake-ImWithHer-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jeff-Flake-ImWithHer-640x480.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Jeff-Flake-ImWithHer-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>D<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>emocrats want further delay in the Kavanaugh confirmation vote, and Friday afternoon Arizona senator Jeff Flake gave it to them.<\/strong><\/span> He insisted that the FBI take another week to re-open the background investigation into Brett Kavanaugh and the allegations against him. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cI just wanted,\u201d Flake explained, \u201cto get some Democrats to agree and willing to come out and publicly say, \u2018We would accept this\u2019 and we would say that the process is fair at least, even if they\u2019re not going to vote for it.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Good luck<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no chance whatsoever<\/span> that this process will satisfy the Democrats, or the press, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">or anyone else who has already decided that Judge Kavanaugh must be destroyed<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Senator Flake <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should have known better<\/em><\/span> than to have yielded this intermission.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>And undoubtedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span>!<\/em>)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Surely<\/em><\/span>, a week from now, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the same Democrats he hoped to appeal to will be arguing for an even longer investigation<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In what must surely come as a complete shock to inquisitive Conservative minds, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Subsequent events<\/em><\/span>\u00a0have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/30\/klobuchar-says-trump-administration-cannot-limit-scope-fbis-kavanaugh-investigation.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>proved the NRO editors right<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/talalansari\/james-comey-brett-kavanaugh-fbi-christine-blasey-ford\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the disgraced Jim Comey felt emboldened enough by the disreputable discourse to weigh in against putting the FBI on a shot clock<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 What&#8217;s next; Hillary Clinton inveighing against the use of private email addresses and servers by high government officials?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Victor Davis Hanson recorded at NRO&#8217;s The Corner<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entire purpose<\/em><\/span> of today\u2019s hearing was for the Democrats to call for a lengthy \u201cFBI investigation,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and thereby delay the hearings until after the midterms<\/em><\/span>, excusing Trump-state senators up for reelection from having to vote No on Kavanaugh, while giving time for a likely fifth, sixth, and seventh psychodramatic accuser to step forward, whose lurid falsified allegations take days to refute, but insidiously bleed Kavanaugh by a thousand lies.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is true that Ford was an empathetic witness in recounting\u00a0<em>what she seems to believe happened.<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Not according to TLJ, nor a number of other women with whom we spoke!<\/em>)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>And the argument of her supporters is that, because she sincerely believes that she was assaulted and that on some occasions 30 or more years after the alleged incident mentioned it to others, therefore her allegations are proven \u2014 <em>when in fact raising the allegations 30 years and more later confirms only that she believes her own allegations<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not that her allegations as they concerned Judge Kavanaugh are valid<\/strong><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>As our good friend Scotty Allen suggested, Republicans should have conditioned their consent to an extended investigation of Kavanaugh on a similarly exhaustive <em>FBI<\/em> inquiry into the life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of every single Dimocratic Congressman and Senator<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, not <em>every <\/em>Progressive\u00a0is ignoring the stench issuing from the Left side of the Senate, as detailed in this item from <em>The Federalist<\/em>, courtesy of Speed Mach:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"I\u2019m A Latino Democrat, But Thanks To The Kavanaugh Circus I\u2019m Voting Republican In The Midterms\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/09\/28\/im-latino-democrat-thanks-kavanaugh-circus-im-voting-republican-midterms\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">I\u2019m A Latino Democrat, But Thanks To The Kavanaugh Circus I\u2019m Voting Republican In The Midterms<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2j3fye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2j3fye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2j3fye.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2j3fye-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>When I came to the United States, I left a country that had recently undergone a military coup. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My family experienced <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first-hand<\/em><\/span> what happens <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when those in power abandon the rule of law<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>We saw the devastation that comes to a society <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">when men of power believe their political objectives so justified that they are willing to pursue them by any means necessary<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In the eyes of those men<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>women<\/em><\/span>!)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">of power, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we could see the deadening of souls that occurs when a man\u2019s perceived benevolence blinds him to his own tyranny<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>During the Kavanaugh hearings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I saw that same look in the eyes of Senate Democrats<\/span><\/em>. <em>The hearings made clear that the Democrats on the committee <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were not interested in pursuing the truth or respecting Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s desire for anonymity<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Instead, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they simply sought to delay the vote in the hopes of winning the next election<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>If Kavanaugh\u2019s reputation and Ford\u2019s privacy had to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the committee Democrats were not going to let basic decency prevent them from using the courts as an alternative path to the political ends they cannot reach through legislation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we mentioned to TLJ over the weekend, given their commitment to opposing even the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>possibility<\/em><\/span> of Kavanaugh disrupting Liberal control of the SCOTUS, is there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any question<\/em><\/span>, assuming they could avoid the consequences personally, Senate Dimocrats would\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>kill<\/em><\/span>\u00a0to preserve their ability to legislate from the highest court in the land?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Chris Muir relates, the answer isn&#8217;t &#8220;no&#8221;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/092918-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/092918-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/092918-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/092918-1-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>HELL NO!!!<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hell&#8217;s bells, it&#8217;s not like, the <em>WaPo<\/em>&#8216;s protestations notwithstanding,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2017\/05\/17\/in-rumors-around-a-dnc-staffers-death-a-whiff-of-a-clinton-era-conspiracy-theory\/?utm_term=.0c5709fd1752\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>it hasn&#8217;t happened before<\/em><\/span><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, inappropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rodentstein.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rodentstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rodentstein.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rodentstein-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/assault.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/assault.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/assault.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/assault-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afb092818dAPR20180928034506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afb092818dAPR20180928034506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afb092818dAPR20180928034506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afb092818dAPR20180928034506-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bg092718dAPR20180927024515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bg092718dAPR20180927024515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bg092718dAPR20180927024515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bg092718dAPR20180927024515-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guilty20180927120908.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guilty20180927120908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guilty20180927120908.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Guilty20180927120908-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/indict.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/indict.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/indict.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/indict-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mle180928c20180927083605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mle180928c20180927083605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mle180928c20180927083605.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mle180928c20180927083605-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Image-9-28-18-at-8.08-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Image-9-28-18-at-8.08-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Image-9-28-18-at-8.08-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Image-9-28-18-at-8.08-AM-300x229.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-1-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-1-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-1-7.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-1-7-300x269.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-3-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-3-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-3-5.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-3-5-300x262.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-9.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-9-300x230.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with a cross between <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>News of the Bizarre<\/em><\/span> and yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/09\/28\/florida-woman-allegedly-hit-husband-with-vacuum-cleaner-part-report.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">Florida woman allegedly hit husband with vacuum cleaner part: report<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/holly_akers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/holly_akers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/holly_akers.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/holly_akers-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Holly Jane Akers, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>31<\/em><\/span>, of Holiday, Fla., <em>started cleaning the house <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at 3 a.m.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>, the report said. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pasco County deputies reportedly said she went &#8220;too far in pursuit of a well-kept home.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Her husband moved from room to room in an attempt to sleep, but &#8220;she followed him&#8221; with the vacuum cleaner<\/em><\/span>, the report said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Akers then allegedly struck him on the bridge of his nose with the vacuum cleaner attachment, the report said.<\/strong><\/span> The hit caused a minor abrasion that didn&#8217;t require medical treatment, the report said. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Akers denied hitting her husband with the part, the report said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Deputies arrested Akers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shortly after 6 a.m<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em> She is being held Wednesday at the Pasco County jail without bond, the report said. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>Akers is charged with one count of felony battery <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on a person 65 or older<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the eyes are really the window to the soul, this is one truly whacked-out woman!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, October 1st, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, one brief observation on the current culture inspired by the baseless character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.\u00a0 By now, most of you&#8217;ve probably heard about the little girl who was asked to tone it down by a fellow Astros fan. 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