{"id":63739,"date":"2018-10-11T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63739"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:57:57","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-october-10th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63739","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, October 10th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, October 10th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, if you thought Lisa Murkowski&#8217;s reason for giving Brett Kavanaugh a thumbs-down was specious, consider why Heidi Heitkamp voted &#8220;no&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/heitkamp-voted-no-kavanaugh-body-language\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>his body language<\/em><\/span><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We had no idea the soon-to-be ex-Senator from North Dakota&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jrkiy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jrkiy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jrkiy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jrkiy-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;was so skilled in the art of non-verbal communication.\u00a0 Hells bells, she&#8217;s the Mandan, ND equivalent of Marge Gunderson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ltYYXhGCBo?start=69\" 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>And as the great Stilton Jarlsberg noted, by her own admission, Heitkamp judged Kavanaugh\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>solely<\/em><\/span> on his body language;\u00a0when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Liberal women start viewing men as something\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i class=\"\">more<\/i><\/span> than just a body for them to ogle and interpret?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We kick off the mid-week edition with a brief<\/strong><strong>\u00a0bit of commentary resulting from an intriguing conversation we had Monday afternoon with an elderly friend of TLJ&#8217;s (for those new to <em>The Gouge<\/em>, &#8220;TLJ&#8221; is The Lovely Jenny, our wife of almost 40 years).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TLJ, along with Lola and Moses, two of our Pomeranians, works with our church&#8217;s Comfort Pets ministry, visiting the elderly and infirm at area nursing and managed care facilities, as well as special-needs students in local schools and community colleges.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3436.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3436-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63619\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2709.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2709-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christina, shown above with Lola and Moses, is TLJ&#8217;s favorite, and as our bride&#8217;s in Memphis visiting her eldest sister and two grand-nephews, we stopped by to visit Christina and drop off a tube of hand lotion TLJ had bought for her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christina was in her wheelchair with her head down when we entered, so we thought her asleep.\u00a0 Instead, while viewing a <em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0report on the Kavanaugh character assassination, she&#8217;d been led to bow her head in both sadness and disbelief.\u00a0 Sadness, as she was truly brought to tears over the premeditated destruction Dimocrats wreaked on a good man and his family; disbelief, because she would never have thought it <em>would<\/em> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> happen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>here<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was her next comment which truly piqued our curiosity (and we paraphrase): &#8220;Sure, it happened over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>there<\/em><\/span>, where, if they didn&#8217;t like the way you thought, you&#8217;d just disappear&#8230;but not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>here<\/em><\/span>!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus did a woman who actually lived under Hitler draw a direct comparison between the politics of Nazi Germany and the conduct of Senate Dimocrats in the Kavanaugh hearings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For as we learned, Christina had <\/strong><strong>been born, her accent-less English notwithstanding, in 1928 in the small town of Eislingen, Germany, some 25 miles east of Stuttgart, the fifth of five children, and the only girl.\u00a0 Her family came to the United States in 1948&#8230;but only after her mother lost three of her four sons in the service of the very type of totalitarian tyranny The Left would impose on the United States today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two were killed during <em>Operation Barbarossa<\/em> somewhere in the Soviet Union, while the third died somewhere in Poland during the Wehrmacht&#8217;s retreat back into Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though her flesh is weak, her mind is completely sound (she remains fluent in German).\u00a0 Thus, when she listens to the patent propaganda of Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse and their shills in the MSM, she recognizes their deliberately divisive politicking for what it is&#8230;and can say in opposition, with the authority of someone who&#8217;s heard and seen it all before&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfdpcrOgUp4?start=15\" 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><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>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the Kavanaugh ambush and the nature of totalitarian regimes, writing last week at the <em>Weekly Standard<\/em>\u00a0and as quoted in the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Chris Caldwell remarked how<i>&#8230;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The grounds for rejecting Kavanaugh have shifted steadily&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Finally, it was whether his outburst at the committee showed a partisanship that was evidence he lacked the \u201cjudicial temperament\u201d to serve on the Court&#8230;<\/span>The question is not \u201cwhether he\u2019s innocent or guilty,\u201d said Cory Booker&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>This amounted to saying that Brett Kavanaugh lacks a \u201cjudicial temperament\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because he objected to being summarily executed following a show trial<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If<\/span> you permit the criteria of culpability to shift, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">then<\/span> you have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the circular logic typical of totalitarian regimes<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Just as there are people famous-for-being-famous, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now<\/span> there are people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">guilty-of-being-accused<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though it&#8217;s worth viewing in its entirety, fast-forward to the 4:42 mark of the following video&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video-api.wsj.com\/api-video\/player\/v3\/iframe.html?guid=6D93F7AA-A6DB-407D-BE6F-A5E0CD8ADC7C&amp;shareDomain=null\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" 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;then tell us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who just turned their back<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GILLIBRAND-CLINTON-WEINSTEIN-009-01-e1513172471467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GILLIBRAND-CLINTON-WEINSTEIN-009-01-e1513172471467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GILLIBRAND-CLINTON-WEINSTEIN-009-01-e1513172471467.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GILLIBRAND-CLINTON-WEINSTEIN-009-01-e1513172471467-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on righteousness and women<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This meme, courtesy of Balls Cotton, puts Progressives into proper perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hypocrites.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hypocrites.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hypocrites.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hypocrites-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, prior to Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation vote, the editorial board of the <em>WSJ<\/em>\u00a0detailed the true nature of the war in which we&#8217;re engaged, as they correctly identify The Left as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-never-conservatives-1538608630?mod=djemMER\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Never Conservatives<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-never-conservatives-1538608630?mod=djemMER\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Kavanaugh fight isn\u2019t about Trump. We\u2019re all deplorables now<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/intheway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/intheway.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/intheway.png 229w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/intheway-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Democrats were so worried about Senate norms that they hid Ms. Ford\u2019s name from Republicans for six weeks, found her a lawyer, midwifed a lie detector test whose results they still haven\u2019t fully disclosed, and then orchestrated the rollout of her accusations. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Mr. Trump\u2019s rhetoric is too often divisive and dissembling, <em>but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no action in his Presidency<\/span> comes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">close<\/span> to matching <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the partisan viciousness of the Senate ambush of Brett Kavanaugh<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>These are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">today\u2019s<\/span><\/em> <em>Democratic <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">norms<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The other Democratic targets here are Paul Ryan <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>they can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have<\/span> Ryan!<\/em>)<\/span>, Mitch McConnell and the conservative GOP majorities in Congress that have cut taxes, eased crushing regulations and confirmed a record number of appellate judges.<\/span> Democrats <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>claim<\/em><\/span> to want to be a \u201ccheck\u201d on Mr. Trump, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but good luck with that<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real goal<\/em><\/span> is to retake Capitol Hill, roll back tax reform, expand the entitlement state, taunt Mr. Trump like a dancing bear, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and set up 2020 for a return of the Obama agenda under the identity-politics leadership of Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The media sometimes profess to be puzzled that more than 80% of Republicans across the country tell pollsters they support Mr. Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite<\/em><\/span> his personal flaws. <em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Never Conservatives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are the reason<\/span>, and the assault on Judge Kavanaugh <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is the latest showcase of their methods<\/span>.<\/span><\/em> <em>Republicans have figured out that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if the left can willfully, even gleefully, destroy a man as distinguished as Brett Kavanaugh<\/span>, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> do it to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any conservative who threatens their grip on power<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Republicans are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>well aware<\/em><\/span> of Mr. Trump\u2019s excesses and falsehoods. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But they have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> come to understand that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the <\/em><em>resistance to him isn\u2019t rooted in principle or some august call to superior character<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They know Democrats nominated Hillary Clinton in 2016 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite<\/em><\/span> her history of deceit. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Voters know this is about the left\u2019s will to power by any means necessary.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Republicans across America can see, and certainly their Senators voting on Judge Kavanaugh should realize, that the left hates them as much or more than they loathe Mr. Trump.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conservatives understand<\/span> that, for the American left, they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> deplorables now<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As Ben Franklin so insightfully noted in support of signing the Declaration of Independence,\u00a0&#8220;<b>We must<\/b>, indeed,\u00a0<b>all hang together, or most assuredly we<\/b>\u00a0shall\u00a0<b>all hang<\/b>\u00a0separately.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, for in an eerie reprise of one of our favorite <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> scenes, The Left presents us no other option, having already concluded&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgHWwYQ3XSg?start=78\" 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>In a related item, writing at <em>The Hill<\/em>, Clinton operative\/acolyte Mark Penn opines on what he terms the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/410364-kavanaugh-lesson-resist-the-resistance-or-lose\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Kavanaugh lesson: Resist the &#8216;resistance&#8217; or lose<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/demcr4-400x266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/demcr4-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/demcr4-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/demcr4-400x266-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As we entered this nomination fight, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Trump was floundering and things were running in favor of the Democrats<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Filled with overconfidence, some Democratic senators pledged to oppose the Supreme Court nominee even before he or she was announced.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> After he was announced, potential 2020 candidates vied for nightly sound bites taking whacks at Kavanaugh, culminating in the laughable \u201cSpartacus\u201d moment of Senator\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Cory Booker<\/span>. Demands went out for millions of documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Then<\/em><\/span> we came to the leak of the Christine Blasey Ford letter, <em>which Senator\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Dianne Feinstein<\/span>\u00a0had referred to activist lawyers months earlier instead of sending it to the Senate Judiciary Committee for investigation<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not a single Democrat had trouble with the lack of corroboration nor praised the very FBI report they had asked for<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It became clear the Democrats had their own \u201cget Kavanaugh\u201d operation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>As this further devolved to unrestrained media reports of gang rapes, thrown ice cubes, and secret high school yearbook marks, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even Republican moderates<\/em><\/span>, the only potential votes to defeat Kavanaugh, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>became incensed<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>Senator\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Lindsey Graham<\/span>\u00a0called the Democratic actions a \u201csham.\u201d Senator\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Susan Collins<\/span>\u00a0called it \u201cgutter level\u201d political campaigning. Nearly 70 percent of the public called the hearings a \u201cnational disgrace.\u201d <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These Republican moderates, each of whom have supported Democratic causes in the past, <em>are indicative of the national weather vane and, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at that moment<\/span>, it flipped against the Democrats<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The resistance is in full boomerang mode now<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>But the fired up movement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">appears to have no \u201coff\u201d switch<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Feinstein, in the election fight of her life, has, with her statement after the confirmation, decided to impugn the Supreme Court rather than appeal to national unity. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) has said he would launch hearings if the Democrats take over, threatening an unprecedented investigation by the House of the advise and consent process of the Senate.<\/span> Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>like<\/em><\/span> investigations, but they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vote<\/em><\/span> for issues such as health care, jobs, and education.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>If you think I\u2019m <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exaggerating<\/span> the potential downside of the resistance, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recall the last time the left took over the Democratic Party<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> It was in the late 1960s after Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) toppled President Johnson, with Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern serving as the next two presidential nominees for the party. The results were disastrous. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From 1968 to 1992, with the exception of four years of Jimmy Carter, Democrats typically lost almost the entire electoral map. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Even in 1988 they lost 40 of 50 states.<\/span> They came back only when Governor\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Bill Clinton<\/span>\u00a0ran as a \u201cdifferent kind of Democrat\u201d and brought the party back to the center<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we cannot find fault with most of Penn&#8217;s comments, leave it to a true Clintonista to omit the fact the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only reason<\/em><\/span> Clinton was elected was H. Ross Perot siphoning off almost <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>20,000,000 votes from George H. W. Bush<\/em><\/span>, allowing Slick Willy to win by a margin of just under <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>6,000,000<\/em><\/span> votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8230;and Bush I&#8217;s inexcusable breaking of the most infamous presidential promise prior to Barack Hussein Obama&#8217;s &#8220;If you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>like<\/em><\/span> you healthcare plan, you can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>keep<\/em><\/span> your healthcare plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OuLWgVOLbG4?start=8\" 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>BZ to John &#8220;Jabba&#8221; Sununu, the New Hampshire RINO who not only talked George I into new taxes, but also recommended David Souter for the SCOTUS.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, as Mitch McConnell stated Tuesday on the floor of the Senate in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/laurettabrown\/2018\/10\/09\/hillary-clinton-throw-civility-out-the-window-until-democrats-retake-congress-n2526859\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hillary&#8217;s latest contribution to national unity<\/em><\/span><\/a>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/laurettabrown\/2018\/10\/09\/mcconnell-points-to-hillarys-call-for-dems-to-abandon-civility-warns-the-madness-hasnt-stopped-n2526946\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the madness hasn&#8217;t stopped<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to be outdone by his erstwhile rival, Bernie Sanders weighed in with another demonstration of his detachment from reality:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/cortneyobrien\/2018\/10\/09\/watch-bernie-sanders-calls-for-new-world-order-n2526900\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Bernie Sanders Calls for New World Order of &#8216;Shared Prosperity<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Berniewingnut.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Berniewingnut.png.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Berniewingnut.png.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Berniewingnut.png-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It is time for us to stand up and say there is a better way to use our wealth,&#8221; Sanders declared. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;In closing let me simply state, in order to effectively to combat the pluses of global oligarchy and authoritarianism, <em>we need an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">international movement<\/span> that mobilizes behind a vision of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shared prosperity<\/span>, security and dignity for all people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and that addresses the massive global inequality that exists not only in wealth, but in political power<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uhhh,&#8230;they tried that, Bernie: and it was a colossal failure, having cost hundreds of millions of humans their very lives.\u00a0 We&#8217;d have thought you&#8217;d heard of it: it&#8217;s called&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Well-of-course-he-is-social.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Well-of-course-he-is-social.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Well-of-course-he-is-social.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Well-of-course-he-is-social-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8221;Communism&#8221;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: Bernie&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so detached<\/em><\/span> he expressed any willingness to part with his three&#8230;count &#8217;em, THREE&#8230;homes as part of his &#8220;shared prosperity&#8221;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Environmental Moment<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-central-america-stays-poor-1538950134\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">Why Central America Stays Poor<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-central-america-stays-poor-1538950134\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Environmental activists succeed in closing a silver mine despite no violations<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #003300;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29656.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29656.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29656.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/im-29656-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The July 2017 idling of the Escobal silver mine in southeastern Guatemala displaced more than 850 workers and endangered the livelihoods of thousands more whose jobs are indirectly supported by the project. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The loss of family income has harmed communities in the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores and in some cases sent the unemployed north to look for work in the U.S.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Nature can be cruel in underdeveloped countries. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Yet it wasn\u2019t fire, flood, mudslide or volcano that served this economic gut punch.<\/span> This is a man-made travesty, courtesy of Guatemala\u2019s Constitutional Court. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">It is a saga worth recounting because it goes to the heart of the country\u2019s intransigent poverty<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Involving graft, corruption and other critical aspects of enlightened <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Latin American<\/em><\/span> governance&#8230;picked up, no doubt, from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>American<\/em><\/span> Dimocrats.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unconstitutional.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unconstitutional.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unconstitutional.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unconstitutional-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bg100818dAPR20181007024507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bg100818dAPR20181007024507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bg100818dAPR20181007024507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bg100818dAPR20181007024507-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bird.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bird.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bird.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bird-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fair20181008123216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fair20181008123216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fair20181008123216.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fair20181008123216-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gv100818dAPR20181008044507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gv100818dAPR20181008044507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gv100818dAPR20181008044507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gv100818dAPR20181008044507-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-9-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-9-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-9-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-10-9-18-at-8.33-AM-300x218.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0077.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0077-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0078.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0078-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-3.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-3-240x300.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-3.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-3-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-3.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-3-3-241x300.jpeg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4-1.jpeg 456w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-4-1-190x300.jpeg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Another<\/em> <em>Stupid Story Intended to Fill the 24\/7 News Cycle<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the Pine Tree State:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maine-hunter-aiming-for-turkey-shoots-another-man-in-chest-report\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Maine hunter aiming for turkey, shoots another man in chest<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jqnid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jqnid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jqnid.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2jqnid-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A Maine hunter who intended to shoot a turkey on Monday morning\u00a0accidentally hit a passer-by in the chest instead, authorities said. William E. Penley was turkey hunting with his grandson when he fired a 12-gauge shotgun at one of the birds. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><em>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">stray round<\/span> struck Richard Hannibal in the chest<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, according to\u00a0Maine\u2019s Lewiston Sun Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Apparently, Hannibal was watching the same group of turkeys as Penley.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The single pellet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not break through Hannibal\u2019s skin<\/em><\/span>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but<\/span> it gave him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a welt<\/span><\/em>, the report said, citing police scanner reports.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>He refused medical treatment, authorities said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A <em>welt<\/em>&#8230;a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WELT<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wC871hNBig4?start=72\" 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><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>Thus doth life once again imitate art:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHmIkwTr7xs?start=5\" 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>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, October 10th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, if you thought Lisa Murkowski&#8217;s reason for giving Brett Kavanaugh a thumbs-down was specious, consider why Heidi Heitkamp voted &#8220;no&#8221;: his body language! We had no idea the soon-to-be ex-Senator from North Dakota&#8230; &#8230;was so skilled in the art of non-verbal communication.\u00a0 Hells bells, she&#8217;s the Mandan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63740,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63739\/revisions\/63740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}